09.27.06
Deteriorata
Is it just me, or has Joystiq’s writing gone to hell lately? I mean, first there was the “rational gamers will spend more money on garbage they don’t want” article, then the “big non-news! stay up late with us for no reason!” thing, and now this “let’s troll the DDR players with the oldest god damned stereotype we can find” article. I have no problem, of course, with the fact that the writer doesn’t like DDR. I would, however, expect a professional blog (that’s not The Unbelievers) to not let him write an article about the newest DDR game if he hates them. Hell, he didn’t even write this one! He just copied-and-pasted a bunch of really lame trolls from the DDR Freak forums with the factually incorrect “it’s not all bad, you can lose weight, RedOctane says so!” false appeasement. Gah.
Yes, I fell hard for it. Can you blame me? When they stop being stupid I’ll stop complaining about it. Matter of fact, to pad the content on Unbelievers I might start snapping back at “the media” just because, hell, there’s nothing else going on there.