Alex, stop posting news. Please.

I honestly like you as a professional game reviewer, but stop posting these childish, spun out, many times unacceptable "personal touches" to your news stories.
 
Heres an example from the "Gamestop sucks" news story you just posted.
 
"As such, I'd just like to include a reminder that there are roughly a gajilliondy other retail outlets that sell video games. Some of which even aren't run by the industry's equivalent of greedy, thieving goblins."
 
That does not need to be in a news story. It's not professional. Tell us the news, why it affects us, and leave your snarky jaded sense of humor to on camera work, where it shines and is more often than not entertaining. 
 
Or you know...let Patrick do all of the news stories.

I kind of agree he's a little over the top, but I don't mind. He's balanced out by the rest of the crew.

I kinda like the idea of having goblins sitting in a dark room atop a stack of money that they got from customers. 

The heart of Giant Bomb is the personality. Without the personality it would just be Joystiq with a Wiki attached. I don't want that.

Keep it up Alex!

Video games are serious business.

Video games are serious business.

I'm going to comment on this in the style of Alex.

"Dude posts thread bashing Alex, gets abused".

I for one adore Alex's news stories!

For someone who complains about internet vitriol, he sure is seething with his own. I normally wouldn't mind seeing this type of stuff in posts on a forum, but when it's front page news, he's just going to inspire dozens of copycat remarks with half the thought put into them.

Don't get me wrong, I love reading his words. I just hate most of the comments the articles get.

I kinda like the idea of having goblins sitting in a dark room atop a stack of money that they got from customers. 

I like Alex's articles.

Alex just became Brad Nicholson.

Fuck you, if you want bland news with no editorial opinion go somewhere else.

I like the personal touches.  Patrick does it too.  Without them they wouldn't feel as "Whiskey Media" if that makes sense.

I for one think it's great that he doesn't pull his punches. Offended Gamestop employees are collateral damage at best, they brought this on themselves.

Yeah! It annoys me a lot when I try to read some stories but whatever. I just ignore his dumb commentary.

I agree, Alex SHOULD post more articles. Excellent thread, chap. 
 
... Waitaminute...

There is a difference between personality and professionalism. Patrick has a great balance between his personality and humor in his posts without sounding childish or unprofessional. Whenever it's one of Alex's posts I find myself doing a double-take on the post, reading that it's by Alex, then sighing. Oh. That's why this article sucks. Don't get me wrong, I like Alex in video/audio form, but his writing just isn't in line with the rest of the Giant Bomb content in my opinion.

How about no. Keep it up Alex.

I'm not really expecting seriousness when I come to Giant Bomb, that isn't to say I don't expect integrity from the journalism, but I don't need it to be totally lacking of personality. Integrity and being professional are different qualities from being dead serious all the time.

I for one think it's great that he doesn't pull his punches. Offended Gamestop employees are collateral damage at best, they brought this on themselves.

Is this a sneaky way of telling us there's a guy with a revolver on your head forcing you to read it?
 
No?
Piss off then, send him a PM if you're stuck up about it.

Alex is hilarious, best written content on the site and frankly aside from Klepek and him there's very, very little when it comes to written content these days.

If I wanted bland news I would check a blog site, I like Alex's style of writing.

How about no. Keep it up Alex.

I would complain, but I always agree with him.

Video game journalism really needs a revitalizing slap to the face if Patrick Klepek is a watermark of quality.

I love how you made a real criticism without saying something childish like say "Alex should stop posting news".

Oh wait a minute...

@DriveupLife said:

I honestly like you as a professional game reviewer, but stop posting these childish, spun out, many times unacceptable "personal touches" to your news stories. Heres an example from the "Gamestop sucks" news story you just posted. "As such, I'd just like to include a reminder that there are roughly a gajilliondy other retail outlets that sell video games. Some of which even aren't run by the industry's equivalent of greedy, thieving goblins." That does not need to be in a news story. It's not professional. Tell us the news, why it affects us, and leave your snarky jaded sense of humor to on camera work, where it shines and is more often than not entertaining. Or you know...let Patrick do all of the news stories.

Giantbomb is all about the personalities. I don't understand how that one sentence does not allow you to understand what the news is. And, Patrick cannot handle ALL of the news, as he has also focuses on larger editorial pieces that we all seem to enjoy.

I don't come here for stale "just the facts" news. There's about a billion game blogs out there I can get that from. It's the people behind the content that make this place what it is. I don't always agree with Alex but at the end of the day I like how he do.

Don't be hatin.

Alex's articles are probably my favorite thing he does. And I don't mean that in a snarky way, I legitimately enjoy his writing.

I tend to agree. Alex has time and again hated on the people of the internet for remarks in the same vein.

Alex's news > Patrick's news. Any day.

Maybe dress up like him then record yourself reading his news articles out in his voice. Then watch it back and then apparently everything will be fine? 

I don't want Alex to quit posting his stories, but I wish that he'd toned it down a bit. That or specifically have a section of the news that is categorized as analysis or editorial for his oft-used signature style.

It's editorial. The point isn't really to be informative.

Some people on the Giant Bomb forums seem to have a lot of problems with the Giant Bomb crew.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

Is this a sneaky way of telling us there's a guy with a revolver on your head forcing you to read it? No? Piss off then, send him a PM if you're stuck up about it.

Won't you feel bad if he actually is trying to alert us about the guy with a revolver to his head.

FYI, there is exactly zero chance of me changing my editorial style, or "not posting news" anymore. So, hey, deal with it.

FYI, there is exactly zero chance of me changing my editorial style, or "not posting news" anymore. So, hey, deal with it.

Alex 1 - 0 DriveupLife

His posts are full of melodrama, and by God I love 'em.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

Is this a sneaky way of telling us there's a guy with a revolver on your head forcing you to read it? No? Piss off then, send him a PM if you're stuck up about it.

Won't you feel bad if he actually is trying to alert us about the guy with a revolver to his head.

Oh, GiantBomb is a news site all of a sudden? I didn't realize that.

Also, yeah, let patrick do it so that every fucking news story can somehow relate to his fiance and the purse she keeps his hipster testicles in. *yawn*

Alex is the D-X of Giantbomb!

Sometimes its good sometimes its bad, but its never dry at least. 
Alex writes like...yogourt? 

Alex is the only guaranteed source of wrestling jokes and references on GB, so I'm cool with him.

My names is Mijetman and I'm an Alex-o-holic.