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Carighan, do games w On Starfield And Hogwarts Legacy’s Single TGA Nomination Between Them
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Well calling Starfield impressive but also immediately-boring would be a massive understatement.

It almost feels like a benchmark. With all the gameplay depth and immersion that goes along with running one. It’s not bad at what it does, quite the opposite in fact. It’s stellar. But there’s just so little to it, despite the massive world fulll of blips and bits. It’s Skyrim driven to an insane extreme: Even wider, even grander, even more impressive. And even more shallow. Much more shallow.

Carighan, do games w It's Exhausting Trying To Read Video Game Website Headlines - Aftermath
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That’s probably because the definition is a personal one. In the very literal sense of the word, a headline baiting you into clicking onto it needlessly is clickbait. It baited you into clicking.

And while the author is free to use a very narrow definition, it’s entirely reasonable - and has as far as I can tell become the norm - to define it as any headline where the article only says something that would have trivially fit into the headline to begin with.

So for example, this very article could be better titled “Clickbait has made video game headlines exhausting to read”, and without being longer it would convey the crucial part of information - why is it exhausting?! - without someone having to first open and scan the article. Which, if the article were well-written, they’d still want to do, assuming the subject matter is of interest to them.
And that’s the thing: clickbait precludes being allowed this choice. By not telling you the crucial piece of information, you are forced to open the article (generating ad impressions!) to find out whether you want to read it or not, often wasting time diagonally scanning said article.

Carighan, do games w It's Exhausting Trying To Read Video Game Website Headlines - Aftermath
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I love how this headline, too, doesn’t tell us what it’s about. But fair enough, it’s a good way to poke fun at the clickbait problem.

And frankly, the shitty part is that by now clickbait headlines/titles have become utterly ubiquitous. To the point where most users will no longer even notice, because they’ve become 100% of headlines.

Carighan, do games w Only You Can Prevent The Game Awards Hype Cycle - Aftermath
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Yeah I was confused by that, too.

Isn’t this like the Steam “awards” were beyond maybe some laughing about how silly the whole procedure is, nobody cares?

Carighan, do games w YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations
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Yeah he had no qualms with 12k-30k annually being taken out for “expenses”.

Carighan, do games w YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations
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The accusation is not that the money has not been donated now, however. It is that the money has been sitting around since 2014, while happily paying themselves “expenses” from it.

It’s just a mix of an externally paid expenses account + a tax writeoff for the years 2014-2022, so even iff the money has now been donated, that doesn’t excuse the previous 8 years and in fact, you can’t shirk legal responsibility that way.

Carighan, do games w YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations
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Yeah, unless it’s a specific fundraiser (as in, “We match all external donations up to X”), there’s no reason not to donate directly, in particular for cases where it’s easy enough to find a charity to directly support that isn’t someone’s personal tax deduction scheme.

Carighan, do games w YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations
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I really want to see his response

Muta talks to him during his video, I think. Response is basically “I had no clue” mixed with some vague excuses, including some that clearly contradict what was said before.

And then does the “But I don’t know how to fix this, so if you have any idea…”, as if, you know, donating the fucking money is such a difficult thing to do. And like Muta says, they don’t even detail their operating expenses, so any accountant could have a field day with that.

Carighan, do games w The Completionist's Charity Has Been Lying To You For Years
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I never even heard of them, but fuck. Damn. ☹️

Carighan, do games w Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division - Aftermath
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I’ll be honest, I am quite surprised they had 180 workers left there after the continuous stream of tepid stuff they’ve put out over time.

Still, sucks for the people working there, becuase I bet a lot of them at least started really driven and motivated before corporate ground their will down.

Carighan, do games w Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision
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“fired” is a bit of a strong word for stuffing his ass so full of money it spewing out was what ejected him from the building.

Carighan, do games w New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible
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So… they’re inventing level codes you can re-enter to start from there.

I’m massively impressed by Sony, clearly revolutionary technology right there.

Carighan, do games w Ea is ending support for Windows 7/8/8.1 in Battlefront 2, BF1 and BFV
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Yeah that’s quite alright. Windows 7 in particualr is so long out of virtually all forms of support, running it is just playing russian roulette with other devices on your network because of known and (due to the now expired support, extended support, and critical security support) unpatched vulnerabilities.

Carighan, do gaming w Cities: Skylines 2 dev says it won't release paid DLC until performance "fixed to our standards"
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until performance fixed to our standards

So… right away, then? 😉

Carighan, do games w Here's what a random person on the internet thought of The Outer Worlds
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Showerthough: Since this wasn’t actually a random person, what if we had a system where I genuinely ask a random person what they think of XYZ? Like speed-dating for games opinions.

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