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Drawing attention to this shit ought to be Illegal...

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by Tanks, Feb 13, 2012.

  1. Tanks

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  2. Lyrica

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    yeah, stuff like that is why I stopped reading Kotaku, they are less about "news" and more about Page hits, similar to another "news" site we know of.
     
  3. Tylinos

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    If you don't like them drawing attention to it, why are you drawing attention to it yourself?
     
  4. Tanks

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    Alas, hoisted by my own petard. Actually, I find that its best discussed here than by the general gaming community. Its like a portion of our internal affairs that no one really has any business looking into. A skeleton in the closet, if you will. Only, in this case, we're perfectly willing to bury said skeleton, if it would simply dig the hole and put itself in it.
     
  5. stormislandgal

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    Why make it illegal? It's up to the end user to determine if a news article is worth their time. Suppressing freedom of information and the trade of ideas is a bad idea, even if that freedom is often abused.
     
  6. Ritz

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    Everyone, give Mike Fahey a hand. This is his big outing. I'm sure it took a lot of courage to ruin his career as a journalist and I think we should support him in this decision.
     
  7. SteelBrush

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    I thought it was going to be an article on something shocking, something morally corrupt, or Penders level bullshit...

    No, it was a hack writing about Sonic fan art. How many years have you been using the internet?
     
  8. OSM

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    Sonic fans are so fucking weird.

    There is just no explanation for it either.
     
  9. GeneHF

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    This actually isn't surprising on any front.

    1) Sonic fans tend to be extremely creepy people. One look at DeviantArt is enough to make most people grab a flamethrower.

    2) Kotaku's reporting of this not only shows a really slow day (not horribly surprising aside from Vita Embargo lift day), but following the modern media line employed by Gawker, AOL, and pretty much any sort of online news agency: publish stories to generate hits.

    A lot of you will quickly call out this piece for not being news and for being sensationalist bullshit. And that's exactly what's desired. On the Internet, you can get news from any old website. So sites are leaning more toward features to get people talking and draw hits which in turn helps increase advertising revenue. The fact one person here linked the article in outrage likely caused at least five more people to click the link in interest was enough to get the job done.

    Not much more to it, really. It's just modern mainstream blogging and also the depreciation of any sort of credibility and nobility to online reporting. Yellow webpage journalism, if you will.
     
  10. Vaiyt

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    There's porn of everything on the internet, Kotaku is a shithole populated by idiots, and the examples in the article aren't even that horrible.
     
  11. OSM

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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGFjoeyc6I&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
    Kind of appropriate.
     
  12. Epsilonsama

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    >reading slowtaku

    In all seriousness Kotaku is a tabloid of really low quality. Its no surprise its part of Gawker media after all. Its articles aren't design to have journalistic integrity all they want is to generate hits no matter the cost. You just help them by doing a thread about them. I recommend you delete this thread so no more people have to click that worthless link of theirs.

    Also Sonic Fans being weird fucks is nothing new. If you really want to see something disturbing search in DA for Sonic + [insert another game] and you will have a joyous time of awful abominations.
     
  13. Tanks

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    Honestly, I thought to myself about whether I wanted to fall for Kotaku's crap and give them the hits they wanted from the article. But I felt like there was enough shit in there to spark conversation over both how terrible Kotaku is at journalism and how depraved a certain portion of the community can be. Of course everyone just goes for the easy target and chastises me for posting the thread in the first place. What can I say guys? Its either this or the paper on the US' actions after WWII as they apply to the theory of hegemonic stability. :P
     
  14. Clutch

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    They could've drawn attention to far worse. I'll leave it at that.
     
  15. Plorpus

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    I don't care what anybody says, terrible Sonic fan art and the crazy fucks who make it will never stop being funny.
     
  16. Lambda

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    The dude who wrote the article made sure to make note of that.

    And, they stated that this is a series that is going to show off the horrible fan-art of SEVERAL different fandoms.

    Honestly, I can,t undetstand why people are so mad over this, yet a good chunk of us visit "A Moment of Archie Sonic". They're the same things. Blogs that are wirtten to give a few laughs. Nothing to rage about, and nothing that's new, either.
     
  17. Guess Who

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    The difference: Kotaku operates under the pretense of being legitimate gaming journalism.
     
  18. 87th

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    This kind of opinion piece is called an editorial. It's an opinion piece to shed light on something that's happening within the wider reaches of the site's subject matter. It's not really supposed to be news, and it's not uncommon protocol for journalism. If you're not fond of this kind of stuff, that's fine, but suggesting this is some kind of underhanded scheme thought up by Kotaku to feed off the hate of their readers is a bit ridiculous. Kotaku's just a website that with writers who often like to do something to inform or entertain, other than regurgitate press releases.

    I'll admit they've made a lot of mistakes on the site, though. That design change seems entirely out of touch with what its readers actually wanted.
     
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    Sonic is often drawn in different scenarios because he's easy to draw, has very basic yet complimentary colours, and can be given a wide amount of distinct positions and facial expressions.

    That said, I've seen worse, and it's really creepy. It's probably just because I'm part of the Sonic scene that I find that lots of people seem to be furries. Still, even they could be a lot worse. I read a transcript of someone's who used to be on the Sonic scene till recently, and I have been sick to my stomach since. People in general are just friggin' wierd.
     
  20. Black Squirrel

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    I think Kotaku's adopted a "quantity over quality" stance

    As in, moreso than usual. I think they're doing "themed" half-days or something and moving towards a system which sees them update at least a couple of times an hour, regardless of whether there's news. So they're putting up all sorts of stupid things.


    I wish there was something in place where you could filter all of the crap out. Sometimes they highlight something genuinely interesting but these things are few and far between.