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The stuff Kurt Kalata writes is usually fairly readable, but the rest of them write like GameFAQers.

Ironic since they have at least one article on that site making fun of the way people write at GameFAQs.

Any site that takes fan submissions is going to end up with a load of crap eventually. That's why you need quality control. I know. I've been there. But it's a bigger issue for a site that's clamoring to be taken seriously than for one whose submissions were mostly limited to silly filler articles.

Eventually, I'm going to weed through my site again and remove some more of the fan-submitted shit (vague or boring SABs, stuff in the "RPGS" article that either doesn't make sense or isn't funny), and I'm still contemplating dropping the Cameos section altogether because I sometimes still get emails requesting/begging/demanding me to update it again.

The main reasons I don't remove the Cameos Database are because it still brings in a lot of hits (and funny search terms for that topic at Sweetbee's board), and also because I really hate to punish everyone who was good about it. I actually had some of the same people submitting stuff who had submitted stuff to David Wonn's Glitches, which I got tickled pink about because that's the site that inspired me to do it.

But eventually the problems outweighed the fun of it. It wasn't even so much the fake cameos and the people complaining about the fake cameos as it was the people who were writing (and posting on the board) to tell me how much everything else about the site sucked and I should just work on Cameos and nothing else. When I realized my site was pandering to whores like that, I just quit doing that section. It's kind of funny how the first of two people who reamed me out for the RAU Gallery was one of those cameo whores. Mission: Accomplished.

This might be a little off topic, and I'm not sure where I might put it, but regarding criticism and blind following, recent events in have taught me that part of the problem is our own education system.

I was JUST thinking this very same thing yesterday, only it was the blog about bad webcomics that brought it to light. Some of the people arguing in the comments there strike me as being the kind who have been taught, "Don't ever let anyone say you aren't good at something. Follow your dreams!", but without having been taught or realizing that "following dreams" involves growth and maturity, and criticism is often a part of that.

It's not just schools, but I'm betting parenting has something to do with it, too. As I've mentioned a million times before, my father used to spew stuff like that at me all the time, and he felt that just "believing in yourself" was enough, and things like a college education on your area of interest were completely unnecessary. And of course, if you fail, it's just because you didn't believe hard enough.

Someone's obviously compensating for something there...

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That's exactly what DH and I were talking about before when we said that for reasons God himself could not begin to comprehend, Tetris is completely immune to the "well, it was good for its time but it's complete crap now, especially since its graphics are primitive and not 3D" criticism that all other old games are subjected to.

I just feel like I'm missing something because I came from a large city (Chicago) and yet I never saw much evidence of this "Tetris Phenomena" everyone claims existed. The most I remember people talking about it was a high school conversation in which a girl admitted it was her favorite NES game, and then a guy laughed and said, "That game is too easy". So, yeah.

Yeah, you're missing the fact that game journalists are complete delusional idiots who live in their own made-up fantasy worlds where things like facts, logic, common sense, standards, and the ability to beat Ninja Gaiden without a Game Genie don't exist.