{"id":301,"date":"2007-11-20T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=301"},"modified":"2007-11-20T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T20:25:36","slug":"weve-hit-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"We’ve hit a new low"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look! We’ve taken every negative thing said about a game and woven it into one review! It’s the nega-review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know it’s supposed to be cheeky and funny — I get the joke, honest — but I truly don’t find it funny to intentionally take the words out of context. When I say the Rock Band<\/em> drums are “not indestructible,” that’s a fact. No game controller is indestructible; you’re still going to have to approach it with respect, and treat it like the piece of consumer electronics it is. But the review’s original line<\/a> is “They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not indestructible, but they were built with abuse in mind.” That’s consumer advice — don’t boil it down to hate when it’s not intended as such.<\/p>\n

This kind of remixed review also assumes that the reader cannot comprehend the original article. I don’t need you to edit down the words to bite-sized chunks; I believe the audience is smarter than that. I didn’t call for an interpreter, nor did the reader. So, you know, fuck off.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, this edit of just the bad bits has created confusion and — exactly what our industry needs — more mocking. Please note the reader comments where people take issue with some of the OXM <\/em>comments, as if that’s all we said.<\/p>\n

I’m tired of all the negativity in this industry. The web breeds it like cancer — comedy cancer. I left GamesRadar <\/em>partially because I didn’t agree with the negative editorial vision — they seemed more interested in shooting down good things than celebrating them. I knew I couldn’t do that on a daily basis. So I’m not thrilled to see my words showing up in someone else’s project about how everything sucks when you look close enough.<\/p>\n

If you disagree with my reviews, that’s fine — we can always disagree and we can even discuss it. But I take immense pride in choosing the right words and putting them in the “right” order. I sweat over the flow of my articles; I want them to be entertaining and informative and above all clear<\/em>. I don’t give you permission to destroy their very specific and carefully considered meanings for your joke.<\/p>\n

Leave my words out of your cynical hack job next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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