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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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Can't be plagiarism if it's a dramatic reading like a cover song
To be fun and cool without doing the work to get there.
My guess is that he might have been doing this since high school and it's just second nature that that's what writing is to him but who knows.
i mean. it's easy to do doesn't mean it's easy to do well. quality aside, i could easily write in length about a game if i were so inclined.
Can't be plagiarism if it's a dramatic reading like a cover song
Please
I kinda wanna go into some of the review threads for the games he plagiarised while at IGN to see if anyone might have noticed anything.
LOL exactly my reaction. HyGogg wins the thread for his insight
tha... THANK YOU! I thought I was going crazy with some of the replies ITT. Ugh.
Also, fucking shit Filip sucks as a writer. I was looking at that Fire Emblem video he stole from Nintendo Wire, and he can't even get the grammar right on his own insertions. For instance, at one point, he says "most flashiest combos ever" which is hilariously wrong ("most flashy", or "flashiest", with the latter being the actual correct one, the former being colloquially acceptablele).
Seriously, that this man has done so much damage to the perception of writing as a whole among so many people actually personally offends me.
Seriously, that this man has done so much damage to the perception of writing as a whole among so many people actually personally offends me.
Honestly it never really sounded like it on NVC. He'd get facts wrong and even when corrected he'd just move on like he didn't care. He couldn't pronounce basic Nintendo characters' names. And he barely showed any passion (not just enthusiasm, passion like you see from Peer and Brian) when talking about games, amiibo, etc.
It wouldn't surprise me if this behavior started all the way back when he was in school. He probably discovered that he could get away with plagiarism and then it became a habit.
There's certainly an air of frustration. However, it's an understandable one. Filip legit fucked over his co-workers and basically betrayed everyone who supported and trusted him.
It sucks when you found out that somebody who you thought was your friend was actually completely full of shit.
having the article open with the video playing in the background is mind bending
Totally agree, was a bit bewildered at all those posts. They were about half a step short of "lazy devs".
Do it, then. It's still difficult. I won't even get into the whole "coherence, nuance, engaging" stuff. Literally, just write 1,500 words, and do it right. It doesn't matter if it's shit, just write 1,500 words that are mechanically sound (no grammatical errors, no syntactical errors, that kind of thing), and tell me it's still "easy to do". I'll wait.
Yeah, like even the other reply I quoted in this post. No guys, it's not easy to write. Filip couldn't even get the handful of dozen words he wrote in each of his plagiarized pieces right.
More than likely he has been doing this since school. I would bet that you can find papers from his school days that copied from something. It's baffling to me when people do this since, especially in this industry, someone will call you out.
To make matters worse he is totally not apologetic about what he did/does and even daring people find more examples, which they did.. Basically showing that he is an arrogant ass who thinks he is above it all and a bit delusional.
I wonder if he even played these games...
IGN almost blasted their own paws themselves.
Isn't it more like that?
Damn lol, just watched/read the first few minutes. That dude really has no shame.
Well there is that. At least he plays games. What a shit show. I'm all about giving people second chances but this dude may have ruined his career.
As one of these people who said reviewing is easy, I don't mean to say writing itself is easy. It is very difficult, and it's very easy to think you're good at it when in fact, you have infinite room to improve. Which is why reviewing a video game is very easy because it doesn't have to be this super complex breakdown of everything. If you are speaking from your own experiences you can write pretty poorly and still get your point across, then keep at it and eventually the writing will get way better. If someone were to read my super old reviews from like 7 or 8 years ago as opposed to the ones I've written a year or two ago, the writing is better but is still not perfect, but the reviews are just that; a personal perspective on a video game. That's all a review has to be. And Filip couldn't even nail that part.
Shit, he apparently couldn't even form his own opinion based on his own INITIAL IMPRESSIONS of a game he played at Comic-Con. No, he had to rip it from someone who played the same game at E3. That is peak fucking laziness.
Good post, but I'd also say that while writing well is undoubtedly difficult to those of us who write regularly, the general "gaming public" has no clue what good writing looks like after decades of shoddy, substandard publications giving a pen to anyone with a passing interest. I think a lot of why that audience thinks writing is easy is because often the style of writing seen in these publications is relatively easy. It revels in the facile and rarely seeks to enlighten.
Just wanted to shoot back some praise for this post. That Wikipedia comparison is spot-on, and your further edit about the readers is one I couldn't agree with more. I admit I fell out of reading gaming sites a good decade or more ago with the discovery of the old forum, primarily because a forum that aggregated news meant I could stay informed without visiting gaming sites or reading magazines. I'll stick check out some of the better writers and such, and Eurogamer as a wholesale site with fairly strong writing, on a regular basis but on the off-chance I seek out a review I'm floored at how little they have advanced since the early 00s.
I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, I definitely expected to read far worse things in those paragraphs when I saw that it was a woman talking about mistreatment by a man at a gaming site. On the other, it does fit into a pattern of behavior that establishes comorbidity of various manipulative behaviors and beliefs.
Holy crap. I just did what you suggested and it's freaking ridiculous. There are portions where he just starts reading the lines verbatim. What a joke.
NOT INTENTIONAL.
NOT INTENTIONAL.
This story is just impossible for me to grasp, like I seriously cannot get over it. I've posted in these threads a lot, but I'm just dumbfounded. The Fire Emblem one might be the most mind blowing one yet. And it continues to get worse and worse with each additional twist every day.
This is what I take from this whole situation. The man just doesn't possess the writing skills to convey his though to an audience. Most likely have been doing this since his school days. On top of that he is arrogant thinking he was going to coast and get away with it and when caught instead of just admitting and apologizing he doubled down.
I dated someone that was clinically a pathological liar. I was warned about it and still went through with it. That was the worst few years of my life and I am still dealing with issues from it. Their "condition" drags you down, manipulates and crushes you. I still have trouble trusting new people now.
I guess IGN doesnt have a lot of traffic anymore since it took so long for people to notice.
I get what you two are saying, and in general I agree that writing well is even harder than just writing, period, but I think as someone who has had to teach the mechanics and basics of writing to a lot of people over the years, sometimes we can forget how hard even just writing - not writing well, just getting your thoughts, or any thoughts, articulated - can be for people unacquainted with it. As I said in a post above, simply writing 1,500 words, and ensuring there are no mechanical flaws or deficiencies (such as typos, grammatical errors, syntax errors) can be overwhelmingly daunting for the average person- without even getting into the whole "writing well" part at all. Hell, simply the idea of writing 1,500 words can be intimidating to most people.
That's why Filip offends me so much. This gentleman was perfectly willing to take others' hard work and effort, steal it, and slap his own name on it. Fuck that, yo. I don't care if what you wrote is fourth grade level, it's yours because you wrote it. Take pride and ownership, and try to improve if you feel it's inadequate. Filip is a thief of the worst kind.
I'm sure Brian meant that passion was a primary requirement, not the end all be all. Obviously you have to have an impressive resume as well. IGN has denied a lot of people, some even went on to make a name for themselves elsewhere.
This is insane.
If nothing else, it makes me think I should rekindle my desire to do video game reviews, impressions, and analysis, since 1) I've often been told I'm good at it and 2) I never made a career out of plagiarizing someone else's work, which puts me at least a few (thousand) steps ahead of this guy. It's utterly shameless and I'm almost in awe at the audacity.
The standout, most telling line for me contains one original thought, at least: "so to say that Fire Emblem: Warriors is a carbon copy of other Warriors games is a little unfair, and that's something I've been guilty of doing myself [...]"
I'm convinced he doesn't. Everything seems super fake. Big Nintendo fan that didn't get the Wii U? Red flag right there .
Joking of course. But only a little :p
Bravo. I've written game reviews and have worked as a journalist before and it's a struggle learning the ins and outs on what is good vs. bad writing. I still struggle with it today. I'm also not actively writing as much as I'd like to and I'm sure I'm rusty. But I was okay at best when I was at peak.
Just saw the stuff with Lily. I guess he's just a manipulative person in all aspects of life.
User banned (4 days): vilifying journalism (FAQ section "Users and creators", 2nd paragraph) + accumulated infractions
Cool. When do they take out the rest of their clickbaity, paid off, shallow content? Oh I guess that would be the rest of the site. IGN taking integrity seriously is completely laughable.
Holy fuck. This well went way deeper than I expected.
"Dude plagiarises a review" is shitty, but not way out of the ordinary. There are plenty of shitty plagiarisers in the world.
"Dude's entire career is built on plagiarism, and now he's being scrubbed from the internet" is next level nutso.
"Dude plagiarises a review" is shitty, but not way out of the ordinary. There are plenty of shitty plagiarisers in the world.
"Dude's entire career is built on plagiarism, and now he's being scrubbed from the internet" is next level nutso.
Lol yeah. I hated the Wii U hardware but I still got one. Nintendo fans are dedicated and wouldn't skip on a system like that.
So funny thinking back that IGN Nintendo went from Matt Cassamasina to this fake character who cant even express an opinion about videogames.