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[Krieger]

What's an herb?

 

[PleazureDome]

Here she is out in the wild with former Kotaku co-worker Alyssa Mercante. Would any man here approach this table?

 

[mitch1971]

What's an herb?

It's wrong grammer, that's what it is.

 

[Icymanipulator]

Ah so just like Wikipedia.

It's way worse

 

[violence]

Inspiring story.

 

[Kdad]

They are being setup to fail. Step 2 is community sourced content "We'll give you $50 if your guide is published on Kotaku". Keep two staff to write news and it's done.

Id just push for constructive dismissal if that's a thing in the US and move on.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Their SJW clickbait/rage bait disguised as "game journalism" ain't bringing in the clicks & ad impressions that it used to. The situation must be pretty fucking dire for them to attempt such a big change in direction.

This gamble will almost certainly fail + donkey punch the legacy gaming media into further irrelevance. I'm going to open a bottle of champagne the day I read about this shit stain of a website shutting down.

 

[balls of snow]

Good riddance kotaku. A blight in gaming.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Their SJW clickbait/rage bait disguised as "game journalism" ain't bringing in the clicks & ad impressions that it used to. The situation must be pretty fucking dire for them to attempt such a big change in direction.

This gamble will almost certainly fail + donkey punch the legacy gaming media into further irrelevance. I'm going to open a bottle of champagne the day I read about this shit stain of a website shutting down.

The collective decision of all game "journalists" to pretend Hogwarts Legacy didn't exist and then it went on to sell 24+ million (and counting) will mark a very important moment in the descent of game "journalism" into extinction. They did it to themselves, by deciding to become low rent political activists instead of cover the popular products in their market

 

[Chuck Berry]

This definitely sounds like the beginning of the end for this rag of a site.

About fucking time.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

cHuDs SaId 2024 WaS tHeIr YeAr

 

[Barakov]

"Kotaku's staff will be expected to create 50 guides a week"

Oh, so those same dozens of clickbait articles we find all over with such alluring titles as "five things I wish I knew before starting this game". Wheee

Sounds like they're being set up to fail. Good.

 

[Kacho]

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

The collective decision of all game "journalists" to pretend Hogwarts Legacy didn't exist and then it went on to sell 24+ million (and counting) will mark a very important moment in the descent of game "journalism" into extinction. They did it to themselves, by deciding to become low rent political activists instead of cover the popular products in their market

Very true, what a perfect example of their total irrelevance to the gaming community. It's so ridiculous it sounds like satire.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Learn coding.

 

[Moneal]

like learn to code bro.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

The developers, gamers, and creators Kotaku loves to bully and doxx have no families. They are all clones.

What a complete idiot.

 

[MDSLKTR]

Here she is out in the wild with former Kotaku co-worker Alyssa Mercante. Would any man here approach this table?

 

[phaedrus]

A sucker.

"she got some nerve, thinking every *****s a herb..."

So a rapper has better grammar than Kotaku's Editor in chief.

 

[kyussman]

So she's just pissed they would have to do some work rather than churn out bullshit woke 'news' articles.

 

[nush]

By default everyone has "A family".

 

[phaedrus]

By default everyone has "A family".

 

[Kacho]

 

[CherryFalls]

 

[DaciaJC]

Fifty guides a week is pretty insane, not gonna lie.

 

[Humdinger]

The collective decision of all game "journalists" to pretend Hogwarts Legacy didn't exist and then it went on to sell 24+ million (and counting) will mark a very important moment in the descent of game "journalism" into extinction. They did it to themselves, by deciding to become low rent political activists instead of cover the popular products in their market

Would be funny if they ended up writing guides for Hogwart's Legacy. That would be fitting.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

this is their what, 15th editor in 2 years or some shit?

 

[TheInfamousKira]

So fucking close to self awareness. It's like watching your grandma try to find the light switch in the dark. YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT TO IT, GRAMMY

 

[ANDS]

If your employees can publicly be racist towards 75% of their clients without repercussion, you deserve to fail.

Still have no idea what this has to do with the EIC being unjustified in not wanting to turn the site into "Game Wiki Site #34596."

 

[poodaddy]

Fifty guides a week is pretty insane, not gonna lie.

It is, but I'm legitimately hoping this causes mass firings and lay offs across the board and that eventually the whole goddamn staff is replaced with AI. Yes, I would prefer AI written content over the contributions from these worthless cretins, fuck em, I wanna see the whole staff of Kotaku go down in flames.....so get on those guides if ya wanna keep your jobs ladies/lads/everything in between.

 

[AmuroChan]

So fucking close to self awareness. It's like watching your grandma try to find the light switch in the dark. YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT TO IT, GRAMMY

So close yet so far. These people will never get it.

 

[cormack12]

Wait, I missed Patricia hernandez's wake? I have some fucking catching up to do

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Wait, I missed Patricia hernandez's wake? I have some fucking catching up to do

I make a weekend sport of lurking in all the gritty drama corners of the internet and just laughing at online discussion of shit like this. Get a nice drink, have a bowl and just laugh at absurdity. I love this crazy planet.

 

[cormack12]

Kotaku guide #1
Breath of the Wild collectibles
You won't believe where Link finds korok seeds (check out #37)

 

[MayauMiao]

"After careful consideration, I have concluded that the current management structure and decision-making processes at G/O Media are not aligned with my values and goals for Kotaku

Wait, she has values?

 

[Aenima]

How to be a racist without being a racist. - A guide by Alyssa Mercante

 

[Interfectum]

 

[Kacho]

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Here she is out in the wild with former Kotaku co-worker Alyssa Mercante. Would any man here approach this table?

I didn't recognize Mercante because she's not doing that "showing off my armpit hair while trying to make it look like I'm not showing it off" pose.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

I hope Kotaku dies soon TBH

They have never contributed one single good thing to gaming in their entire history

Come on… that's not true. They've only been terrible since Spamfeller took over like 5 years ago.

 

[Paltheos]

You are probably correct but damned if those types of articles helpful if written well. Since we seem to have COMPLETELY dumped the very concept of game manuals, in game tips or wikis, and now tutorials are just the most basic "left stick to look left" shit these complex subgame heavy titles really need a way to educate the casual player and these guides are valuable for that.

I'm more inclined to think the types of guide management has in mind are the same kind of shovelware nonsense that dominates google hits.

I was just thinking (again) last week about how tough it is these days to find information all in one source these days ala the GameFAQs days. I was trying to 100% Persona 3 Reload and had several tabs from multiple different websites open at once because there was no single source for everything I wanted. And the worst part is that I still felt kind of lucky - Sometimes when I play modern games I can go through a dozen, different websites and as many pages parsing through extremely obvious, surface-level information hoping that I find any of the info that requires any real research and I'll often come up empty. It's gotten bad enough that I've blacklisted allot of websites on my google searches (I think my count is around 50 right now?)

Also, as a guy who's done research before and wrote actual guides, I know how much work goes into making anything actually useful. Makes me all the more doubtful the staff could pump out that much content so quickly.

 

[bigdad2007]

The 50 guides a week thing is more or less forcing people to quit. It is a way to fire people without doing so directly. Because the woke cancer they are trying to get rid of would be the first ones to sue.

 

[ReBurn]

The 50 guides a week thing is more or less forcing people to quit. It is a way to fire people without doing so directly. Because the woke cancer they are trying to get rid of would be the first ones to sue.

I'm thinking how horrific it must be to work as a writer at a gaming website and have to play games then write down what you did while you were playing.

 

[rkofan87]

Fucking ridiculous. Sounds like the same situation that happened at the Escapist which led to a mass Exodus of their YouTube talent.

No matter the ideological differences between them and GAF, you cant suddenly expect to work your employees to death doing something they do not have experience in doing.

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Goalus]

Good.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Learn coding.

Better yet, they can make their own programming language. imagine the craziness

 

[violence]

The 50 guides a week thing is more or less forcing people to quit. It is a way to fire people without doing so directly. Because the woke cancer they are trying to get rid of would be the first ones to sue.

Kotaku employees are live streaming the guide creation process. Here are some highlights.

 

[rkofan87]

The 50 guides a week thing is more or less forcing people to quit. It is a way to fire people without doing so directly. Because the woke cancer they are trying to get rid of would be the first ones to sue.

good f them.

 

[MayauMiao]

The sign told us the future.

 

[laynelane]

I imagine there are a few people there who are quietly happy to focus on writing about games. The rest, like the one who publicly outed herself as a racist, are likely the reason why this change is occurring.