Critics are often out of touch. It isn’t just critics, but a lot of people in and around the industry lose perspective on the real world or get caught up in all the inside baseball. It doesn’t help whn most of a critic’s social interactions are on Twitter. Twitter is not representative of the the real world, but…

I still don’t get why people hate sites like Metacritic and Open Critic.

Rotten Tomatoes has critic scores and audience scores, it uses a weighting system to value one against the other, just like Metacritic does though?

AGREED!

Rotten Tomatoes also uses an algorithim that they keep secret based on fresh, not fresh, and the number score.

Both are a thing. I think that l, societally speaking, toxic masculinity is a bigger issue, but the other problem also exists.

Watched the video, it seems much more like he was scared that people wouldn’t see what made the game so special. People can be really bad at that kind of thing and all metacritic does is show a weighted opinion average, which means he was able to see that people understood what he had made when viewing it. Just…

Uhh that’s a horrible comparison. Toxic masculinity is a much bigger and much more serious problem for our society than a video game review site. Priorities, man.

I don’t know how you slam one meta-aggregate site, and then promote another one without any understanding of the contradiction there.

I honestly stopped reading the article once you stated that you used the movie script of Battle Royale for comparison against the books of the Hunger Games. This was because you "didn't have a copy of Takami's book handy", was the $11 on Amazon going to break the budget? This article holds about as much validity as…

You've forgotten a bunch of things. Like the protagonists never killing anyone out of any other reason but self-defense. Like heavily relying on very competent sociopathic competitors so the protagonists never have to kill anyone "nice" and lose the audience's sympathy. Like that both stories end with more than one…

In the manga The Program was very much a "Superbowl-like" show.