Gamespot - Memories

There were quiet times but, yeah, new threads would slip of the first page quickly on a busy evening.

There hasn't been an intellectual debate in OT in years. Don't make me laugh.

don't believe him, it wasn't that bad

Yeah I agree that the Code of Conduct is getting updated too much, the notice thread about it that got posted in this forum was what drew the line for me. Apparently GS can't seem to make up its mind, because the way the COC keeps going, it looks as though its currently in a trickle effect of just eventually winding up being like how the rules were before November 2011 (Which were the super strict rules.)

As for this KMX story, yeah that whole thing disturbs me as well, I was around GS back in January 2012 and am aware of what happened, but I don't know the full story, and I wish I could find out more solid legit evidence and information about the whole thing. Sounds like its quite fortunate that back then I wasn't around OT much and wasn't posting actively at it like I am now, was mostly at 1 2 or 3 unions, as it appears I avoided something that was disgusting.

Disgusting and downright criminal. And Gamespot did almost nothing to stop it for quite some time. I'm not aware of the details myself, but I have been privy to the general story and it's shameful that they let it go on as long as they did.

You should start a PYP thread then, and I'm totally not just saying that because I miss your face.

Man, no damn justice in this world. Its obvious CBS Interactive (the company that supposedly owns sites like this one) is another company held on life support by the corrupted American establishment. Interesting that I stumbled upon a news story mentioning this problem the other night. Senator Elizabeth Warren said something I most certainly agree with, that the American justice department, the whole schebang, isn't looking to this not nearly enough, they are not concentrating on corporate crime, and busting corporate criminals.

@foxhound_fox: Perhaps not enough attention has been given to them. It is fine if you want to have regressive views particular to your own worldview. As a moderator, I will do my best to promote the positive ones.

No, I have been. You must have a false impression of what an intellectual debate is.

@foxhound_fox: I do not, yet I also seek to find the good in what others say and forgo appropriating the bad into my own worldview. That might be, in my humble opinion, a difference between some and myself. No offense intended.

What does 95% of this have to do with the statement I made? You say no offense, yet this seems like a subtle jab at me personally.

Gamespot hasn't seen a quality intellectual debate since most of the big debaters were pushed away by the union purge. And the number of intellectual users left couldn't be arsed to participate in one if it did occur.

@foxhound_fox: I thought my comments would come across as too personal, so I edited them. Sorry about that. Frankly, I would rather talk about ideas instead of people, anyway.

Part of the intellectual process, according to many academics, is recognizing the valuable, reasonable parts of discussions, and utilizing them to gain holistic perspective about humanity and the state of things as they are. Also of importance is not allowing ourselves to transform our minds to that which generalizes because of seeing numerous faults in the assertions of others, ampliative or deductive, or ourselves. Hence, I seek to appropriate the good arguments into my perspectives and forgo the bad arguments. One of the latter, in my view, is that which views this entire international forum as that without a single intellectual discussion in years when in my experience there has been and more.

That said, your reasons for viewing Off Topic Discussion as you do are acknowledged, but disagreed with due to the presence of empirical evidence from over the years which you say reality is without, currently. Frankly, they are extraordinary.

empirical evidence

but how much is an empirical evidence worth if we all know that in reality our eyes see everything up side down, and only the brain shows us the images we recieve from the outside coreccted ... isnt that troubeling, I mean what else could be simply an Illusion produced by our brain, something like the perception of 'perspective' maybe ? an Illusion simply to eliminate everything that could put us in danger, long before it even reaches our consciousness ... ? empirical evidence is the least trust worthy evidence we can recieve ...

Never really enjoyed those so much. I liked the dumb threads with no purpose.

Amuse me because I miss your face.

@omotih: I hold the view that phenomena, things-as-we-perceive them are all that we can truly understand, as we cannot see things-as-they-are, noumena. You say that this is illusory knowledge. Empiricism may be based on that which we do not fully understand through logic, but it can answer questions which intuition and logic cannot. If you doubt this, you are challenging quantum theory which I would say that you ought to do to recognize its validity for yourself. Similarly, though not quantum theory, I invite you to look through the history of Off-Topic over the recent two years to see where intellectual discussions have occurred.

For a person, you can look at @korvus for an intellectual.

When Twilight Princess flopped.

I am no longer the amusing rogue I once was.

I miss the days of Greg Kasavin and the old crew. When there was no Twitter and staff actually posted interesting and thought provoking blogs. I miss On the Spot, Button Mashing and Tournament TV with Rich Gallup. I miss video reviews that weren't scripted and the reviewers critique was more thorough. I miss emblems and Unions. I miss the User Soapbox, wher interesting user blogs were highlighted on the main page. I missed the cool prizes that the site used to award to members. And I miss the old layout most of all. No one here wanted the site change and no one likes it 3 years later.

To be fair, though, the tech staff has worked out most of the bugs. The editor for forum posts is pretty feature rich and stable nowadays. And they've mostly done away with dependencies on Adobe Flash too. The site seems to have some solid HTML5/JavaScript developers on board now.

I miss detailed reviews. I miss DEEP and challenging games getting good scores. I miss the sound of deep voices during a video review. I can't even look at the review feed here without slapping myself across the face first. The story seems to mean soooo much to the critics here that that in itself defines the game. It's just pure stupidity and it's hard for me to read or listen to. The reviews just don't get into the gameplay. They try, but you can tell they have very little experience in actually playing games or being good at them. That's why I think the people that should get paid to write reviews are the pros of the games, the ones that have actually explored and produced good content.

Gears gets a 7 for it's campaign pacing, and Tomb Raider gets a 9 for being an old game with new features. Gamespot is basically a hipster critic site now. And hipsters hardly deserve to breathe. And you can say this is system wars, but it's actually bible: they are Sony fanboys to the molten core. It's so pathetically obvious that they are trend followers with no real opinion of their own. They would rather wait for a metacritic consensus and read other opinions than play the full game for themselves.

SO I guess the real question is... why do these people get paid anything? They want more money, and they want to work less.

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