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I’m sure you would ;)

I would be violating NDAs by getting more specific, unfortunately. I’ll say this, though. They are a direct competitor of yours.

I think the former is an implicit bias. Ultimately the latter is the majority of what influences those reviews as being shown the best parts of a game is part of helping form their opinions, certainly.

I guess I’m not trying to paint this as a direct line from a publisher doing favors for press or influencers to good…

I shouldn’t have associated my thoughts with gamergate. That was a mistake. I don’t agree with their views or methods.

With that said, I think the population of people that frequent sites like Kotaku and go through the process of commenting to point out these things as common knowledge is much smaller than the…

I wasn’t aware just how above board Kotaku is as we at my agency have been able to pay for coverage of our client’s titles (features on the front page, streams, etc) on other gaming sites. In fact, I should have noticed that we didn’t approach you guys for those sort of activities.

Ultimately, I’m not trying to paint…

I don’t mind discussing here because I think you’re aware of most of the things I’m talking about. For example, we engage “influencers”, right? These YouTube/Twitch/social personalities get access, free stuff, ability to cover games ahead of time with the very implicit understanding that they not bite the hand that…

Yeah, I remember that part. I was merely speaking to the purported aims of the movement which have some merit. I’m speaking on a purely hypothetical level because of how it actually played out.

I didn’t buy into the hype but I get it. Being able to explore a seemingly endless variety of worlds with creatures that seemed unique with the ability to craft things to make your ship and your experience that much better. Whether you were into crafting or just exploring the cosmos, it seemed like it would fit that…

It’s a shame that gamergate descended so quickly into the bullshit.

I work with video games and I know that there is more than a little you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours going on with video game critiquing. That deserves to be called out just so everyone is aware. Unfortunately, 99% of it isn’t about that.

Here’s hoping the next game will actually allow me to play as the Charisma character I usually do.

It sucked when so many dialogues were “Hey, do this” and your answers were

Did you expect a Denuvo representative to say “our shit doesn’t work”?

I totally understand that.

For my clients, we’re trying hard to convince them of the value of separating oneself from the pack by creating killer content. Everyone puts their marketing drivel on social media but not everyone is out there making content that is unique to social media. Make your pages a vehicle for…

Agreed. Now I just have to convince a client to pay me to do this sort of stuff.

Could you talk a bit more about your career path after that initial position? I’m in marketing. I work in Social Media but the nature of my agency has allowed me to have a hand in creative, PR-type stuff, media planning and execution, event planning, pitching, deck writing, analytics, AV production, and probably…

RIP. Always reminded of this Kevin Garnett clip when I think of him

I’ve thought a bit about this as a Latino. I didn’t have any say or anything to do with the fact that I am of Dominican heritage. It was thrust upon me. All the good and all of the bad. However, as a result, I’ve been able to develop a unique perspective on life that someone who is not Latino (or POC even) has not…

Wish it was possible to only get the non-game items of a collector’s edition.

Wish it was possible to only get the non-game items of a collector’s edition.

They’re trying to link this https://twitter.com/PatrickKarraker/status/803404434818682880/video/1

BF vet but trying to figure out the logic in the game is so funny.

Wait, is 23 bigger than 17? It is. Isn’t it? It definitely is. Unless it’s not? Who the fuck knows.