Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits

Game journalist: n - An individual who writes professionally about computer and video games, although may not adhere to a professional work ethic. May not research or fact-check stories. May be more interested in hyperbole than actual constructive criticism of media. May be incapable of determining the mathematical average of a 0-to-10 scale. May be unable to handle criticism. May claim to be "just a blogger" or "not a journalist really", which is at least partially true. See also: Game PR.

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October 10th, 2011 at 12:07PM

Team Fortress 2 running via web browser, world’s fate in question —

The headline for this Joystiq news post seems pretty impressive… until you actually read the post:

Thankfully, it’s merely a demonstration and isn’t actually playable – yet.

And, of course, if you watch Brandon Jones’ admittedly quite impressive video (there’s a second video with a better framerate here) you’ll see it’s not the game at all but just one of the maps.

I don’t want to downplay the significance of Brandon’s work, but it’s a bit shit of Joystiq writer Richard Mitchell to present it as if Team Fortress 2 is actually playable in a browser. Because it isn’t.

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