Ashtear

@Ashtear@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the feeling the people at Aftermath are just hungry to poke the bear. I imagine it’ll eventually catch up to them, but hey, more power to them for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s because my experience with it goes well back into the print era, but very little of it is actual fact-finding capital “J” journalism, and even that part has only come on in the industry more recently. I’ve always put the games press in its proper buckets of “previews for access” and then game criticism. Quality for both varies, but I’m rarely disappointed when I stick to a publication I like (until the inevitable EIC churn, anyway).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had the money I’d definitely do the same, but for now I do RSS instead of link aggregator communities if I’m being serious about it. Takes some curation, but at the very least it’s not being run through a vote algorithm first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, the only thing I hate more than a few people I regularly talk with still using Messenger is having to deal with the desktop client. Now this 🙄

  I moved to a web browser but I can’t even get push notifications working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The game does some seriously raw stuff with failed relationships that I still haven’t entirely recovered from. I still strongly recommend it, though.

  Lately I’ve been considering a replay as a liberal just to see all the internal commentary on it.