Recent content by Agema

Back playing Ostranauts in Early Access - had to start afresh after the intervening months of updates killed older save files. Full release probably later this year. Set in the solar system in a few decades time, where Earth has been cut off from space due to orbital space junk. Start with a...

In a way, I'd hope there's little consensus: "good" is subjective! What I would suggest is that most critics are very superficial. They don't have much to offer except their variation on "I (don't) like it". They don't give you any insight into what makes a story. One thing I quite enjoy is...

I get that, but I can see the logic of why they don't. Often there's less value teaching you the application (what are you doing and how), because it is often very specific to whatever organisation you then go and join, and you only really know by joining. Trying to teach this might be like...

Trump is currently suing the IRS for $10 billion. (Which is pretty incredible given that's more than his entire fortune). Obviously, the president handing himself $10 billion of public money might be a little too enraging, so rumour is that it's going to be settled for a mere $1.7 billion...

I think this is a really interesting insight to reviewing. After all, a review is itself a creative endeavour, and so with it comes all sorts of similar issues about feedback, comparison to other work, reputation etc.

If I'm honest, I think there's a certain degree of this just comes from reflexive dislike of big players - whether review sites, publishers, devs, anyone - and equivalent lionisation of minnows and indies. Suspicion/envy of the successful and powerful? Contrarianism? Whatever. But I guess if...

It is not consistent to claim that a lot of people go to IGN and Gamespot for reviews, and then also claim that the reviews fail to serve their audience. Sites that fail their audience will gradually die. Maybe IGN and Gamespot know and serve their audience a lot better than you suppose...

It is not an ad hominem though, is it? Your reasoning is faulty.

Okay. Partly, this perhaps depends on what you mean by terms like "doing nothing". Essentially, this sounds like a form of quality assurance. Quality assurance is important, so the consultant is doing something that has value. But it might not result in any changes, either because what was...

You selectively employ it against ideologies you disapprove of, like most people: you've littered this forum with hundreds of ad hominems. And thus how telling it is you selectively ignore it for racists.

Christ. Still trying to squeeze blood out of that stone, eh? Cybertruck is just a failure: it should probably just be quietly taken out the back and put down. Musk claims it made a profit, but I suspect if Tesla keeps having successes like Cybertruck then it'll be bust soon enough.

For much the same reason you pay a marker even when the person taking the test passes it.

There's a good chance climate change might go down in history as the most expensive cost externalisation of all time: a truly staggering cost dumped on billions of people. Let's not pretend the worst offenders could be made to pay the bill: most of them will be dead, for a start. There will be...

Okay, so you're just bloviating a big fat straw man. Fredda is completely upfront that it is not a direct refutation of Walsh's video - and he clearly states so in his preamble. It is explicitly an attack on Walsh's methodology: his opinion is that Walsh's whole approach is so flawed that it is...

Undoubtedly - most people have a schtick and it tends to get old - and reinvention is not easy. And it's not like old legacy media where everything is limited with gatekeepers, which helps established people keep their place. In fact, I think some people hasten their collapse in an attempt to...