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I used to work at TrustedReviews - I left several months before the offending article was published. I don’t have intimate knowledge of why TI Media, which owns TrustedReviews, chose to settle the case, but I know no laws were broken obtaining the documents. To my knowledge, they were emailed anonymously to a member…

I mean, you could certainly make the argument that all information serves a public good and that part of a journalist’s job is cutting through the marketing cycle instead of just regurgitating what publishers want said. But let’s say you don’t believe in that argument. Here’s a good example.

Sounds like the good people of the UK need to do something about that. My main point is this was a clear attempt by Take-Two to make an example of the press to invoke fear in publications. Then act like it wasn’t by involving charities. A calculated corp play meant to punish free speech, but not so much it would anger…

So they sued a publication for releasing a document about a game everyone knew was being developed with a list of features everyone knew would likely be included...

There’s an important distinction to be made here between a leaker and a journalist. When someone leaks a document to the journalist, it’s entirely the journalist’s prerogative whether or not they want to report on that. They have not signed any NDAs and have no obligation to protect companies’ secrets. In fact, a…

This is disconcerting. I feel like, In our entire society, not just our subculture, journalistic integrity is on the decline. It is not journalism’s job to contextualize (arguably) or cater to views. It is for dissemination of information, which the website did dutifully.

My list would include Suikoden 1-2, Lunar 1-2, SaGa Frontier, Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Brave Fencer Musashi, Breath of Fire 3, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Ogre Battle, Grandia, and so on...

I don’t have to distrust the CDC to recognize one particularly transparent lump of bullshit in this cultural conversation:

I’m married to a chronic pain patient and I’m on your side. All this opioid “epidemic” crackdown has done has made getting her meds harder to get. Even if you have doctor willing to work with you on pain management you then have to deal with the pharmacy carrying the meds you need and seeing if the insurance will…

Interesting it has “National Overdose Deaths” and then under that “Number of Deaths Involving Opioids.” ‘Involving’ is a pretty broad term; involving as in they died and they had opioids in their system? Pardon me and others for being skeptical of these numbers; attitudes around drug use have changed, and now all…

Every episode of LAST MAN STANDING should start with Tim Allen coughing, his wife looking slightly concerned, and then moving on with the show.

I’m a huge TWD comic fan (I have a Robert Kirkman signed #1), huge horror fan, big visual FX fan, and they managed to completely lose someone that is at the center of the Venn diagram for people who should love this show the most.

To support your argument, this post about The Walking Dead’s ratings has more comments than that recap.

The Glenn dumpster fakeout was the point where I decided I didn’t really care what happened next, because that was the point where it became undeniable that the show had no creative integrity whatsoever. The season finale with the utterly pointless Negan cliffhanger was where I finally understood how little respect…

Yuuuup! The show has always had a loose approach to what it’s ‘about’, but it was clear that at the very base level, it was about a father shepherding his son into a new world.  The son died, and now they are killing off the father.  Not a lot of places to go from here where the audience is going to feel a connection.

but from friends who do read them, the idea that Carl was being groomed to be the BETTER leader than his father in the post-apocalyptic world by seeing and not repeating Rick’s mistakes throughout the series, still seems like the main driving narrative there

Because TV is, ultimately, about making money.  The reason why networks fund shows is because they see money coming in.  If a show is popular, they’ll stretch it as much as they can, because ending it, even if it gets a good ending, means they’ll have to risk putting on some new show, which may or may not be as good…

Without Rick to bookend the story, and after killing off Carl last season, the show as a piece of mythology is pointless. It shows that the show isn’t actually about anything.

They lost me a long time ago, I got real tired of characters (especially Morgan) yo-yo-ing from revelations of “I don’t want to kill [anyone, or a particular person]” to “I’m going to kill [everyone, or a particular person]” and back again, based on the episode’s events.