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I'm still trying to work out if the stupid smile is down to her knowing she's about to come out with the "Schroedinger's pussy" line and the anticipation of unleashing it on the unfortunate Mr.Clutch or whether the brain damage from the accident has finally caught up with her and she's been reduced to even more of a dribbling idiot.
This is scary. Last night, a friend of mine and I talked about the concept of Schrödinger's penis.
[small]Have you been listening?[/small]
[small]Have you been listening?[/small]
I love this xD I use the name Charlie when writing reviews for obvious reasons.
As for the readers doing more thing I was recently made an admin of a facebook group. I link good reviews and insights I see on there and get them more hits. I like to think I'm doing my part.
As for the readers doing more thing I was recently made an admin of a facebook group. I link good reviews and insights I see on there and get them more hits. I like to think I'm doing my part.
I was thinking of a different word. >.>Scrumpmonkey said:
Also, does that mean her box is locked in a box?
I'm horrible.
My hypothesis, or conjecture, if you will, (people so often misuse the word "theory", but that's just me being picky because of my physics background) is that gamers, and the geek culture, in general, seems to be unhealthily preoccupied with things that make them angry, upset, depressed, or disgusted. Consequently, they fail to notice or take for granted the good things that do make them happy. They're just too intent on finding something to ***** about at every possible moment.
I have to stand up and salute Erin's dedication to such a horrible, horrible, borderline offensive pun. Not the writers; the writers had no choice. It's all Erin.
Sometimes Erin comes across as a female Yahtzee or Jim Sterling; it makes me wonder if the gaming community at large would embrace a female caustic reviewers like they have embraced the two loquacious Englishmen.
Sometimes Erin comes across as a female Yahtzee or Jim Sterling; it makes me wonder if the gaming community at large would embrace a female caustic reviewers like they have embraced the two loquacious Englishmen.
Funny panel, but to be honest I think the message is kind of misplaced. With something like video games opinions are always going to be divided, especially with the lines increasingly drawn between casuals and serious gamers. Also, I think a lot of it is also that people expect consistincy, a lot of attacks on journalists come from someone winding up in the position of "game journalist" for basically being a nerd's nerd, a serious gamer who knows pretty much everything about the medium. When you see a gradual shift in tone from a reviewer being critical of casual games, directed at the masses, to being more accepting of the kinds of games the casuals play and the industry wants to make, that's when the problems usually happen. When a reviewer has to start defending games based on arguements like "judging them on their own merits, right now" his credibility goes out the door, especially when he's supposed to be there due to their lengthy knowlege of the media and their abillity to put things into perspective. If your an expert who is accepted as one because you can compare a game now to one 10 years beforehand and find it lacking from a design standpoint (for example) and then refuse to do that (quite probably because of industry/publisher/advertising pressure) the big question is what point your expertise plays. You could literally just plug in a video game for a hobo and get the same kind of "on it's own merits" review.
I'll also say that game reviewers generally get paid by a publisher, whether it's physical media or digital, not based on a percentage of ad hits. Now granted, by not making any money a publisher can go down leading to lack of employment, but that's very indirect. I'll also say that if people want to deal with ad blockers on their sites and encourage people not to use them, they need to be more careful about what ads they accept and how obnoxious they happen to be. If I come to your website I do not want to see 10 other pages open at the same time, or some animated figure scroll around the screen, obstructing my view, until I acknowlege it, or some obnoxious voiceover shooting out from a video in the corner. The problem with online ads is they tend to be utterly obnoxious, and the guys running sites rarely bother to worry about anything other than how much they will be paid for the ad. Basically when the ads themselves chill out and stay out of my way, I might consider not running software to shut them off... Oh yes, and then there is the whole bloody issues of tracking cookies and crap. Even with decent online security/ad blocking (though by no means perfect obviously) I routinely pull hundreds of tracking programs, cookies, and other crap out of my system which cumulatively do slow it down when it gets to a point. Not to mention that I don't really care for the idea that some advertiser wants to "track my web surfing habits" or whatever the heck.
Let me put it another way, even if I literally believed game journalists would starve due to blocking ads, I wouldn't really care, because you'd pretty much be argueing they make their living by being professionally obnoxious. Starvation might actually be considered too good for the people who create and spam a lot of these ads.
I'll also say that game reviewers generally get paid by a publisher, whether it's physical media or digital, not based on a percentage of ad hits. Now granted, by not making any money a publisher can go down leading to lack of employment, but that's very indirect. I'll also say that if people want to deal with ad blockers on their sites and encourage people not to use them, they need to be more careful about what ads they accept and how obnoxious they happen to be. If I come to your website I do not want to see 10 other pages open at the same time, or some animated figure scroll around the screen, obstructing my view, until I acknowlege it, or some obnoxious voiceover shooting out from a video in the corner. The problem with online ads is they tend to be utterly obnoxious, and the guys running sites rarely bother to worry about anything other than how much they will be paid for the ad. Basically when the ads themselves chill out and stay out of my way, I might consider not running software to shut them off... Oh yes, and then there is the whole bloody issues of tracking cookies and crap. Even with decent online security/ad blocking (though by no means perfect obviously) I routinely pull hundreds of tracking programs, cookies, and other crap out of my system which cumulatively do slow it down when it gets to a point. Not to mention that I don't really care for the idea that some advertiser wants to "track my web surfing habits" or whatever the heck.
Let me put it another way, even if I literally believed game journalists would starve due to blocking ads, I wouldn't really care, because you'd pretty much be argueing they make their living by being professionally obnoxious. Starvation might actually be considered too good for the people who create and spam a lot of these ads.
I have to say, Critical Miss has really been a hit on all levels lately, a huge improvement over what it was like just six weeks or so ago. Keep up the awesome work.
People keep saying how great panel 5 is, but those eyes kind of creep me out. Panels 6 and 7 however is truly the personification of self-satisfaction and it absolutely *makes* the whole comic work brilliantly.
People keep saying how great panel 5 is, but those eyes kind of creep me out. Panels 6 and 7 however is truly the personification of self-satisfaction and it absolutely *makes* the whole comic work brilliantly.
