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File: 1351170955854 png-(292 KB, 600x339, 600x-1.png) □ Anonymous 10/26/12(Thu)09:15 No.159903047 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-24-lost-humanity-18-a-table-of-doritos There is an image doing the rounds on the internet this week. It is an image of Geoff Keighley, a Canadian games journalist, sitting dead-eyed beside a garish Halo 4 poster and a table of Mountain Dew and Doritos. It is a tragic, vulgar image. But I think that it is the most important image in games journalism today. I think we should all find it and study it. It is important Geoff Keighley is often described as an industry leader. A games expert. He is one of the most prominent games journalists in the world. And there he sits, right there, beside a table of snacks. He will be sitting there forever, in our minds. That's what he is now. And in a sense, it is what he always was. As Executive Producer of the mindless, horrifying spectacle that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards he oversees the delivery of a televisual table full of junk, an entire festival of cultural Doritos. How many games journalists are sitting beside that table? Recently, the Games Media Awards rolled around again, and games journos turned up to a thing to party with their friends in games PR. Games PR people and games journos voted for their favourite friends, and friends gave awards to friends, and everyone had a good night out. Eurogamer won an award. Kieron Gillen was named an industry legend (and if anyone is a legend in games writing, he is) but he deserves a better platform for recognition than those GMAs. The GMAs shouldn't exist. By rights, that room should be full of people who feel uncomfortable in each others company. PR people should be looking at games journos and thinking. "That person makes my job very challenging" Why are they all best buddies? What the hell is going on? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:16 No. 159903081 Whenever you criticise the GMAs, as lve done in the past, you face the accusation of being "bitter". Ive removed myself from those accusations somewhat by consistently making it clear that I'm not a games journalist. I'm a writer who regularly writes about games, that's all. And I've been happy for people who have been nominated for GMAs in the past, because I've known how much they wanted to be accepted by that circle. There is nothing wrong with wanting to belong, or wanting to be recognised by your peers. But it's important to ask yourself who your peers are, and exactly what it is you feel a need to belong to Just today, as I sat down to write this piece, I saw that there were games journalists winning PS3s on Twitter. There was a competition at those GMAs - tweet about our game and win a PS3. One of those stupid, crass things. And some games journos took part. All piling in, opening a sharing bag of Doritos, tweeting the hashtag as instructed. And today the winners were announced. Then a whole big argument happened, and other people who claim to be journalists claimed to see nothing wrong with what those so-called journalists had done. I think the winners are now giving away their PS3s, but it's too late. It's too late. Let me show you an example. One games journalist, Lauren Wainwright, tweeted: "Urm... Trion were giving away PS3s to journalists at the GMAs. Not sure why that's a bad thing?" Now, a te tweets earlier, she also tweeted this. Lara header, two T p xin the gallery and a very subtle TR background #obsessed to braider pictwitte com OWDSaT And instantly I am suspicious. I am suspicious of this journalist's apparent love for Tomb Raider. I am asking myself whether she's in the pocket of the Tomb Raider PR team. I'm sure she isnt, but the doubt is there. After all, she sees nothing wrong with journalists promoting a game to win a PS3, right? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:17 No.159903134 Another journalist, one of the winners of the PS3 competition, tweeted this at disgusted RPS writer John Walker: "It was a hashtag, not an advert. Get off the pedestal." Now, this was Dave Cook, a guy Ive met before. A good guy, as far as I could tell. But I don't believe for one second that Dave doesnt understand that in this time of social media madness a hashtag is just as powerful as an advert. Either he's on the defensive or he doesnt get what being a journalist is actually about. I want to make a confession. I stalk games journalists. It's something Ive always done. I keep an eye on people. I have a mental list of games journos who are the very worst of the bunch. The ones who are at every s who tweet about a get. I am fascinated by them. I won't name them here, bec of you will know who t are. lm fascinated by these creatures because they are living one of the most strange existences - they are playing at being a thing that they dont understand. And if they dont understand it, how can they love it? And if they dont love it, why are they playing at being it? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:17 No. 159903164 This club, this weird club of pals and buddies that make up a fair proportion of games media, needs to be broken up somehow. They have a powerful bond, though - held together by the pressures of playing to the same audience. Games publishers and games press sources are all trying to keep you happy, and it's much easier to do that if they work together. Publishers are well aware that some of you go crazy if a new AAA title gets a review score on a website, and they use that to keep the boat from rocking. Everyone has a nice easy ride if the review scores stay decent and the content of the games are never et their exclusives. Ad reve lled. Everyon stays friendly. It's a steady flow of Mountain Dew pouring from the hills of the money men, down g that stuff and demand something better. through the fingers of the weary journos, down into your mouths. At some point you will have to stop Standards are important. They are hard to live up to, sure, but that's the point of them. The trouble with games journalism is that there are no standards. We expect to see Geoff Keighley sitting beside a table of s". We expect to see the flurry of excitement when the GMAs get announced, instead of a chuckle and a roll of the eyes. We expect to see our games journos failing to get what journalistic integrity means. brilliant writers, like John Walker for example, dont get the credit they deserve simply because they dont play the game. Indeed, John Walker gets told to get off his pedestal because he has high standards and is pointing out a worrying problem. Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:18 No.159903215 Geoff Keighley, meanwhile, is sitting beside a table of snacks. A table of delicious Doritos and refreshing Mountain Dew. He is, as you'll see on Wikipedia, "only one of two journalists, the other being 60 Minutes said, There's such a lack of investigative journalism. I wish I had more time to do more, sort of, investigation." And yet there he sits, glassy-eyed, beside a table heaving with sickly Doritos and Mountain Dew. It's an important image. Study it lent Mike Wallace, profiled in the Harvard Business School press book 'Geeks and Geezers' by noted leadership expert Warren Bennis." Geoff Keighley is important. He is a leader in his field. He once HAL

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Bman95

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Oct 13, 2014 at 12:28AM EDT

Dem tags tho…

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CrazyCal999

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Oct 13, 2014 at 04:59AM EDT in reply to TheLaughingMan

Real talk, I haven't seen someone look that dead since one of my high school buds tried to kill himself – hell, since I MYSELF tried to kill myself. And judging from the content of that post, this dude is long past the point of not giving a fuck about himself. Damn.

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