The Critic's Plight

[vlad321]

Runa216 said:

vlad321 said:
Sorry, I curse so much IRL that it has literally lost all meaning and sometimes it slips into my written words.

Average IS mediocre... that's the definition of mediocre, average.  As to how you don't grade like old reviewers, I already pointed it out, back in the day scores were far better distributed than they are now. The simple fact you gave a game with glitches an 8.9 attests to that. I will be hardpressed to find a good old school review where a game with bugs got 4.5 stars. Your assertion is very much nullified, because you are essientially bitching about a system that you, and people like you, helped create, and my agenda was to point that out. What you call liniency, I call lack of integrity of a critic.

I'm honestly at a loss for what to refer to this as.  I want to call you ignorant but you're clearly not that.  I want to call you rude, but that's entirely irrelevant.  I want to call you a hater but that just seems so childish.  So rather that shout curse words at you, I'll just say this: 

dude you need to get laid or something.  maybe do some weed or just go to a Jimmy Buffet concert, all I know is that you've got to chill right out and stop being so aggressive.  you're making mountains out of molehills, as it were (which is hilariously ironic since all of this was incited because I was accused of nitpicking things I felt were very important in a game's design.)  You're taking something small and inconsequentual and enlarging it to biblical proportions so you can use it as a launching pad to write a tirade.  this crusade about how 'average' should be here when it's there is honestly just getting silly, and your assertions that my integrity is compromised because I gave leniancy to a game with minor, infrequent glitches is not only false, but laughably so.  Your assertion that 'oldschool games with bugs would NEVER get more than an 8.5' is so hilariously wrong that I honestly don't even know where to start proving it so I won't even bother.  the fact is that every game has them, it's always just a matter of how much they affect the ability to play the game.  

I just, I don't know where to go with this anymore.  you seem like the person who could (and does) take small inconsequential asides and tirades against them endlessly just so you feel superior.  I've met your kind, hell, I've BEEN your kind in the past, and I have to say, seeing it from this end is just hilariously sad.  

If you're going to rant about my critera for grading games, go right ahead, but an overwhelming majority of what you've said on this thread has nothing to do with what this thread is about, and your complaints about 'average should be 50, not 75" is such an extrapolation of semantics that I Don't even know why you think anyone can take you seriously.  

This entire 'debate' if you can call it that has reminded me of some of the people on Fox NEws who can take a simple thing and sensationalize it into some sort of anti-american conspiracy.  Just calm down.  Seriously.  I don't even know why I have spent this much time reading your responses and replying to them.  what a waste of my time.  Go make your own thread and get out of this one. 

It's actually quite simpler than that. I jsut really don't like hypocrisy, especially when someone spends a page writing about it, especially when they bitch about something of which they are part of the cause of the problem.

Also, I'm trying to avoid doing my actual work, and it's worked out splendidly.