Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by HideousKojima on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:41AM
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Personally I only read reviews of running shoes from lazy obese people, paraplegics, and amputees.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by djur on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:16AM
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What do you think people reading wartime coverage want to read about?
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by torginus on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:34AM
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Going by Henry Ford's "faster horse" quote, I prefer my media to be aspirational, to assume potentially too much of me and be disappointed, not the other way around.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by menacingly on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:00AM
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I don't know. So I will let my 0.0% experience with the topic keep me from writing about it.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by jccalhoun on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:14PM
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You really think that these people who have worked for multiple gaming sites and are now starting their own gaming site really don't play games? It seems like there would be an easier way to make a living than writing about something you don't care about.
Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by menacingly on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:10PM
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I do think that, and a lot of other people do as well. It’s why they aren’t taken seriously and have a hard time being employed unless we’re in wasteful high growth economic states.
And identifying a profitable market segment, inserting yourself as a critical member, and blaming doing a poor job on vague concepts of gatekeeping and bias seems like a good enough way to make a living that they keep trying at it
They write like this because it’s how anyone writes on a topic about which they have no experience. If you embed me as a wartime reporter, I’ll talk about the weird food and noise, not what most people reading the article want to read about.