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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Apr 19, 2024 20:36:59 GMT
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Post by zephro on Apr 19, 2024 20:53:39 GMT
I keep a bookmark to the reviews section of RPS and they still have a bunch of lovely writers. But yeah, it's gone from a site I visited almost daily (and read virtually everything) to one I check maybe twice a month or when I'm interested in a particular game and want to read some wordy-thinks about it.
I'm also not as fussed about keeping up with new games these days and I've sort of ossified a bit in terms of the genres I play, so part of it is me changing as much as RPS has.
Re: Thailand, I've never understood why it's so popular. Still a quasi-dictatorship (military junta in charge until very recently), a low key civil war going on for the past 20 years, the sex tourism and trafficking, tens of thousands of street kids that are treated like they don't exist by the government and society in general, horrible treatment of animals. I'm sure it's lovely if you're visiting as a tourist or living there as a relatively wealthy westerner, but fuck that place.
Same, I've basically moved back to PC Gamer. As I read PC Gamer UK in the late 90s/early 00s when Jim, Kieron and John wrote for them, was part of the pcguk forum, then that all merged into the US and everyone kinda jumped to RPS. I may just be old or out of touch but the various trends but they don't seem to be as into RPGs, strategy or immersive sims like they used to. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 20, 2024 14:13:50 GMT
It's annoying that they stuck 95% of Sin's stuff behind the supporter's only wall. I genuinely didn't think they were still writing for RPS, but it turns out they still are. It's just that most of it is hidden. That and the fact that they have, like, 3 Guides writers and one staff writer. And Katherine and at least one of the other writers/editors being really into JRPG type stuff.
So the only one who's writing and tastes were of interest was hidden behind the paywall of doom.
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Post by minimatt on Apr 20, 2024 14:59:36 GMT
it really is, annoying too that the paywall is considerably more expensive than the EG version, and sad we've lost Alice O this week too whose output had lessened lately but who remains the best news writer in the business by far. Still, Alice Bee is fantastic (tho as a now twice published author, who knows if she'll hang around), the lad Edwin Something-Double-Barrelled is excellent, and new boy Nic Reuben is covering a strategy hole in the line up although i'm not really gelling with his writing so far
i've been really impressed with their output the last ~twelve months, really started pushing more interview and investigative pieces, they started having a voice again, an opinion
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 20, 2024 15:09:38 GMT
I like the Alices, although Alice O was kinda wasted writing snarky versions of press releases.
It's good to hear they've started getting their voices and opinions back. They seemed to have given all that up in the past few years.
Is Nic new? It feels like he's been around for ages. But it also felt like 90% of their output was by freelancers, which meant you never really got a feel for them as a person. And they'd come in and do 10 articles a day for a few months, then disappear to be replaced by another one.
Sticking specific writers behind the paywall never made much sense to me. How is it meant to appeal to anyone who isn't already a member. Heck, I know I like Sin's writing, but I still had no idea what the heck she was writing behind the paywall, and whether it was worth the money, or just being forced to pump out x articles a week.
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Post by minimatt on Apr 20, 2024 15:19:02 GMT
yeah think Nic's been freelancing for quite a while before he got a full time gig, re Sin's stories, she's clearly got a free reign to "let Sin be Sin" and as such they're quite varied, and baffling why they're all kept behind a paywall. still have a supporter tag till this summer (may have to re-evaluate then, finances not quite as brill this year as last), can jailbreak them for you if you like
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Post by zephro on Apr 21, 2024 14:28:51 GMT
I gave up mine a while a go. I thought it was quite indicative that when they made Nic permanent they made a point of saying that they finally had a strategy person on staff again. As yeah Jrpgs are not my thing.
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Post by wunty on Apr 22, 2024 9:32:07 GMT
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Post by quadfather on Apr 22, 2024 12:23:57 GMT
Got to agree really, there are all sorts of people using rooms where I work for absolutely loads of different reasons. Some companies have been here for multiple years |
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Post by wunty on Apr 22, 2024 12:58:02 GMT
Immediately thought of what you'd been saying. I can really see the appeal of them tbh.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 22, 2024 13:06:15 GMT
Shame I can't live in a storage unit.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 22, 2024 13:11:42 GMT
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 22, 2024 13:12:58 GMT
The answer is clear, shack up young, pop a kid out and in 18 years you can have three family members contributing to the mortgage.
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Post by hicksy on Apr 22, 2024 13:15:12 GMT
The very definition of sustainability!
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 22, 2024 13:16:03 GMT
I guess you could send a couple of the kids out to work as chimneysweeps, then you wouldn't have to wait the full 18 years.
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Post by quadfather on Apr 22, 2024 20:57:06 GMT
Shame I can't live in a storage unit. I might be able to give you a discount |
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 22, 2024 22:07:24 GMT
Kinder Buenos worth £134k stolen from estate
Now I really want a Kinder Bueno.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 23, 2024 6:53:01 GMT
Stolen from estate makes it sound like some country toff had loads of Kinder Bueno hoarded in his mansion. Makes for a much better story.
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Post by cubby on Apr 23, 2024 6:59:47 GMT
I read estate as council estate and was disappointed. I was envisioning a turf war ensuing.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 23, 2024 7:32:55 GMT
As the saying goes, don't put all your Kinder Bueno in one industrial estate.
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 23, 2024 14:54:57 GMT
If you have a spare $450, you can buy this big-ass Pokemon plushie:
Also, thanks to a user review from 'Georgia M.', I now have the perfect tagline for my Plenty of Fish account:
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Post by Danno on Apr 23, 2024 17:27:26 GMT
Yaaaaas queen
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Post by Nanocrystal on Apr 23, 2024 21:56:14 GMT
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Post by cubby on Apr 23, 2024 22:07:32 GMT
Apparently every other country has sex festivals...? where's our sex festival??
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Post by X201 on Apr 23, 2024 22:16:18 GMT
Apparently every other country has sex festivals...? where's our sex festival?? We’re waiting for Rishi to declare an erection, so we can go to the local church hall to insert things into a slot and fill a box, in order to give him a public spanking. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 24, 2024 2:36:52 GMT
I can't decide if it's funny or depressing that they need to import Japanese porn stars for their festival.
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Post by Mr Wonderstuff on Apr 24, 2024 9:55:07 GMT
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Post by X201 on Apr 24, 2024 10:03:36 GMT
No sense of direction.
Running around recklessly.
Damaging people’s health and safety.
Ignoring calls to stop.
Vote horse for more of the same.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 24, 2024 10:05:19 GMT
Hopefully they usurp Sunak and install an equinocracy.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 24, 2024 12:17:30 GMT
I can't decide if it's funny or depressing that they need to import Japanese porn stars for their festival. I was wondering that. Ahh good ol' Japan, the horniest, yet very conservative which leads to some fucked up fetishes, of the Asian countries. |
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