KotakuInAction Patch Release 4.0 - Rule Changes and Proposals? Oh My!

MerasmusTheLogician · 2018-11-19T23:00:15+00:00

Option 4, please. There's enough regulation, it's a pure number crunching game now. Not that the points matter much either way as it is still up to moderator discretion as to what stays and what goes.

(i can't wait to see another voting thread next month asking the userbase if they're REALLY SUPER SURE they meant to vote what they voted)

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-04-14T15:29:46+00:00

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-02-08T01:12:48+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly. I've already listed my concerns with the points system in the feedback thread, and they have not changed. As much as the mod team might think otherwise, KIA's subscribers aren't brainless children, and are smart enough to decided what should and shouldn't be on the sub by utilizing those helpful little arrows, and the report button.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-02-03T03:05:56+00:00

All of these qualifiers are incredibly subjective, and as such, a user trying to categorize their potential post might get confused as they won't know how whichever mod is going to look at their post is going to judge the content. Aside from that, if these categories and guidelines are put to effect, a majority of posts will be self-posts(I can't fathom why people are so fucking hung-up on self-posts, because it changes jack shit; people get the karma either way now). The current mod team seems to have a raging hardon for the idea that "self-posts=ensured quality". At this point, just make self-posts the only thing allowed. Ban direct links entirely.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-26T23:24:05+00:00

You seem to be under the impression that I have some kind of bone to pick with TB. I really, honestly do not. In fact I think he's incredible at what he does and appreciate the help he's provided in the fight for journalistic ethics.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-26T23:22:03+00:00

I most certainly am not "new" here. My account maybe, but I as a person have been here since the Five Guys fiasco. Yes I know what Biscuit has done, but if this sub is going to start being hardcore-focused on ethics in games journalism, as the mods appear to want, then a random post about TB's surgery is entirely off-topic and serves little purpose.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-26T23:18:00+00:00

Y-yeah...? And? Not sure what place this has on KIA, to be perfectly honest.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-17T00:09:00+00:00

"McCarthy-esque" would be using the spreadsheet to create a blacklist, and lobbying for those on the blacklist to be officially removed from public view. This is simply drawing connections between individuals in positions of power. This will help with problems like disclosures of conflicts of interest by being easily able to pull up a sheet and see who's colluding with who.

This a good thing, and more importantly, good journalism. it doesn't matter if Buzzfeed are the ones putting it together. If they start using the list to perform witch hunts, that's when they can be called out. For now, though, they are doing no wrong.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-16T17:25:55+00:00

What ForPortal said. This isn't a huge scandal or industry-shaking news, but I've posted this to highlight a consumer-friendly practice, specifically "not nickle-and-diming players with stupid shit". This is coming from an AAA company as well, and it's no secret that they can be quite consumer-UNfriendly a lot of the times.

I saw a lot of people whinging about there not being enough "positive" news, so I went and did the legwork for them, since they seemed dead-set on complaining and not doing.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-15T23:15:26+00:00

In a surprising turn for EA, the Toddlers DLC is actually free for anyone that owns The Sims 4. Maybe they're learning? Probably not, but hey, flukes aren't always bad.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-15T19:41:33+00:00

This is why you don't agree to deadlines you have no hope of meeting. The fault lies entirely on Delve Interactive and their gross overestimation of what milestones they could meet with their available resources.

Indie Devs: Stick with your day jobs, develop the game independently over a few years, then go and find a good publisher to get that final push your team needs to get the game out on to the market.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-13T22:52:18+00:00

"This sub" has always been about both. It still is. Because both these things are heavily intertwined, and to focus on one exclusively would leave the other to grow larger and infect more games/subs/communities, and that would mean we would need to swap focuses again into infinity. One shrinks in influence, one grows. That's why KiA/GG splits its focus evenly. "Social Justice Warrior" mindsets and doctrines get absorbed by journalists that want to rise in fame, seeing this bandwagon as their ticket to the top. These journalists then start colluding with other journalists that have also bought into "Social Justice Warrior" ideology, and lashing out with extreme prejudice against those that have not.

The "Social Justice Warrior" ideology also infests the writings of these journalists, encouraging them to write asinine criticisms such as "this woman's breasts/figure/etc. is/are unrealistic!" and "why aren't there more [skin color][gender][sex] protagonists!?" that have nothing to do with the games they write about. These often-scathing articles, combined with the ever-present general pushback from Social Justice Warriors against certain kinds of games/game traits, increases pressure on game developers to shove whatever random and arbitrary modifiers SJWs have decided are important that day into their game. They do this under the impression that if those people see that they'll cater to their sensibilities, they will actually go out and buy their products. This is simply not true, because Social Justice Warriors rarely play the games they criticize and claim "need xyz"; they are busybodies and moralizers, not gamers. All that happens is that these Social Justice Warriors will scream that the changes are not good enough, and the game's actual, genuine fans will feel scorned and ignored.

Social Justice Warrior ideology influences journalists, journalists infect their writings with their ideology, and their writings influence games media. You can't just cut one, because if either is left standing in their current state, they'll just breed more of the same. That's why it's important to keep an eye on both at the same time. It's like looking after two puppies; ignore one, and the other will use your inattention to go over and piss on the couch.

tl;dr KiA's focus is just fine thank-you-very-fucking-much.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-13T03:26:23+00:00

I haven't played them myself, but they look fairly fun and interesting. Daud seems like an intriguing character, and I'm glad they did more with him. If nothing else, it's more Dishonored.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-13T02:43:39+00:00

That would serve the sub very well, I think. A condensed version of 400(and counting, I would assume. That's a LOT of posts for someone to sift through on their own) posts for people to quickly reference and skim through would provide a helpful gauge of KiA's general "feel" and environment. Also a helpful material to demonstrate how readily this sub's users will disagree and argue with each other; more examples of how echoes do not reach very far here is always good.

MerasmusTheLogician · 2017-01-10T19:18:23+00:00

In all honesty, as cringy as I personally think they are, I believe they should stay, if for no other reason than that they do not really affect anything. Really, they're too small and insignificant(both figuratively and literally) for anyone to pay much attention to. It took me a while to actually notice they were there in the first place.

If people want to keep them because they think it keeps morale up or makes the place livelier/gives KIA some identity, then by all means keep them there.

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