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Today, in crazy headlines: Final Fantasy Origin’s Normie Fuckboy Scores More Stylish Gear As You Play
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need to get me a job there, if the standards are basic forum/twitter shitposts I think I'm absolutely qualified
holy fuck kotaku
every year it seems to get worse. It used to be one of my favorite sites for news. Any good alternatives not run gamersgaters?
every year it seems to get worse. It used to be one of my favorite sites for news. Any good alternatives not run gamersgaters?
i mean its literally the same ribbing that everybody has been doing since sunday. We have a thread up currently where the title is just the word "Chaos".
i'm pretty sure the word "fuckboy" has lost all meaning if we're using it to describe an FF character with barely any dialogue besides "CHAOS"
I get not liking Kotaku in general, but are we seriously going act dramatic over a gaming site taking part in a meme that even the creators of the game have decided to embrace?
i love the handful of kotaku defenders being like "lol you guys are old."
this is a bad article.
this is a bad article.
Hands down the best site for news on the regular. Comment section is often a bit of a nightmare, but it's easy to just never scroll down that far.
Or "lol why are you offended"
No one thinks this is offensive, just stupid/clickbaity.
It's completely harmless. The pearl-clutching in this thread is worse than one stupid tongue-in-cheek article that uses the exact same house style GO Media sites have been using for years and years. Put a swear word in a title and everyone on Era becomes Kyle's mom, it's really weird and pointless.
This right here. Just follow the number 1 internet rule of "don't read the comments" and you've got yourself the best gaming site hands down.
I have no horse in this race, but your post comes across as completely unhinged from what's going on in this thread. No one is pearl clutching, and no one seems prudish about the "fuck."
The OT is literally about the headline, and so are most of the posts. So tell me where you've seen some kind of more substantial commentary about the article's content, because I haven't seen it.
I mean this is the same type of energy with that CHAOS! thread and you guys had so much fun in there, so yeah, weird reaction?
I think the preoccupation about the headline proves right the posts complaining about it as clickbait. Personally, I think it's done its job for exactly the same reason. It's profit and view-driven. It's cynical. And because of the attention it garners it's exactly the right move for a site like Kotaku.
Exactly, only cringy shit are the dorks here who act like this hasn't been kotaku's style for unimportant news forever.
Also it's actually funny lol
Exactly. It's not critical news, it's just a light interest piece about a game that's been getting a lot of attention, delivered with a joke that isn't even off-base unless someone here actually disagrees that Jack looks like a normie fuckboy. Who cares?
That's a perfectly acceptable jokey-joke article? What's with all the hand wringing?
How is it clickbaity? How did they bait you to click?
I don't see a lot of pearl-clutching.
I see a bad article being poked lightly fun at.
It's harmless, yeah. But it's also not very funny or very informative and a on track with some other sloppy articles that author has written. Believe it or not, articles should be edit before being published -- if you want long form, interesting shit posting check out Tim Rogers. This ain't it.
Or, you can accept the fact that Kotaku is a site that does both side by side, and has done for many years, and there's nothing wrong with that, and not fill a thread with embarrassing hand-wringing over it.
I guess we're just gonna have to disagree here. Current leadership at Kotaku isn't what it used to be, imo and it shows. I don't think ribbing a bad article is as serious as you're making it out to be.
I mean.. unlike the majority of millenials out there, Jack knows what he wants and will do what it takes to get it.
This has always been Kotaku's tone. I understand disliking it, but why insist that it's new? Or blame the change in editors? Especially when the old editor is responsible for some genuinely bad shit, and this is at worst, an irreverent headline?
What's happened to the rule of three?
I played the demo very briefly and yeah I got a new coat and it really wasn't different nor better.
That article title is bad. Real bad.
