I swore off this thread but you don't see a difference between directly interviewing a guy and asking tough questions that he can respond to versus taking a quote from another website and spinning what the person said?

One is good, tough, ol' fashioned journalism while the other is cheap and petty and smells of the typical "I can get away with saying this because the other guy doesn't have a voice" type of journalism we see rampant on the Interwebz.

I don't even understand what your arguing about anymore, essentially your saying no one should comment on any news article on the internet because...?

Kotaku ran a news article with quoting a person, Maelstrom is criticising what the person says.

I have no idea when this became unacceptable.

I mean, do we now say no one can talk about or criticize legitimate website-based newspaper websites? because 'they cant respond'?

When Ahmadinjead, the presidant of Iran, calls the holocaust a lie, should i not criticize this because he cant PERSONALLY RESPOND TO ME?

What is your argument, it sounds ridiculous.

@noname2200: i can see your struggling because you have no rebuttal.

You hate Maelstroms 'hostile' attitude, why call him arrogant? your hostile too, hypocrisy is shown here when you criticize someones manner, but you do it too.

'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'.

Speaking of hypocrisy...

Your lack of clarification shows.

I do recall stating that i would read a thread calling me an idiot.

So while you show attitude while criticizing others of that same attitude,i accept it and have no problem with it

Yes you did.

Too bad I asked if you'd listen to what it said, rather than if you'd just read it. The two things are, after, quite different. But then this language barrier seems to be the problem we're having, isn't it?

I recall that i said id listen to it depending on whether the points are valid (points about me being an idiot).

So no, there is no language barrier problem, nice subtle attitude you have there, why do you dislike Maelstroms articles again?

Chill dude, it's clear from your grammar that English isn't your first language. Nothing wrong with that, my Spanish and German are atrocious.

As to why I hate Malstrom, I can't really answer that. Yet you say I hate him, so I suppose I must take your word for it. I just wish I could resist the urge to check his site daily, or defend most of his opinions on this site. It's a sickness I tell ya!

As usual. Malstrom has one or more good points, then he floods everything sensible he could say with insane amounts of raving and, lately, whining too.
Sorry if somebody else already wrote it, but he too has a not so well hidden agenda, he's crying, thumping his feets and holding his breath until he becomes blue because MW2 launch was bigger than NSMBW one.

Just post some reviews and some names, who are these corrupted? Or is this a strawman thats being setup to vent a rant and get some attention.

Theres a craft to writing, if someone consistently writes like a dick, then is he a dick? Why does he need a bulldozer when all he needed was a shovel, why would he do that? This is showmanship, but without the personality.

But that is beside the point, this is someone critisizing from a cushy chair in his own home as well, with a different job altogether, this, even we can do. Post some names and reviews that are blatantly bought! Instead of argueing in a vortex of abstraction.

And you blew your decent critique of him with your own strawman. He's made it clear for a while that those games are frontloaded. It's long term sales that he discussed. Plus Nintendo didn't blow $150-$200 million to market NSMBWii.

As in I agree he has an agenda, you just got it completely wrong.