Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom

Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A boss several steps up the chain decided to make changes to how the site operates that were incompatible with what Giant Bomb is, namely that they wanted an advertiser-friendly, “brand-safe” image with less swearing and streaming. This led to a number of key people leaving, at which point, the name Giant Bomb isn’t really worth anything to anyone. It’s been covered in tons of gaming circles this week alongside the similar destruction of Polygon, so I didn’t think it needed to be stated yet again as I was summarizing bullet points from a live stream.

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  • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s been covered in tons of gaming circles this week alongside the similar destruction of Polygon, so I didn’t think it needed to be stated yet again as I was summarizing bullet points from a live stream.

    Very fair and valid.

    I will attempt to gently state that this is c/games, not c/gamingcircles and thus many of us are very interested in video games but not necessarily the industries on the periphery thereof, so what seems “yet again” to you might be a first time for others.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Very true. Though at the same time, you probably could have found that context you were looking for by typing a couple of those words into your favorite search engine or Wikipedia.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean sure but we could all just do that with everything and we wouldn’t need Lemmy at all lmao

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I agree with you, but I do believe that is an unrealistic expectation for interacting with casual lemmy posts when a custom of including relevant context exists. But all good, I’ll admit my lack of awareness on this one; you did nothing wrong.

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  • MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    RIP Escapist Magazine

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Second Wind is filling the “Yahtzee rants about a game that I’m unlikely to play anytime soon” hole nicely.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Meh

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