lol, yeah, I'll bet.Sorry if you weren't following 100% because I can get detailed, like I'm a RICO lawyer detailed when it comes to the game industry. Some stuff just takes a lot to connect the dots. And this post is still gonna take a minute so buckle up:
My comments here in the past day(?) was tied first to the controversy about reviewers not being very good at games in regards to that Xbox (executive's?) comment about a reviewer(s) needing to "git gud" with Anthem basically.
No, I don't think the people I mentioned were bad journalists. I'd say they were good enough journalists/writers/analysts that they got hired into the development side of the industry. The subtle implication is that most people still in pulpy game journalism/reviews/analysis are doing it because they can't get better or more "prestigious" jobs in the games industry or elsewhere (whether in journalism at large or something else).
Though a cushier games journalism job at a respected establishment is still going to be better than a brutal low-level QA job in most places.
FWIW I'm highly interested in tech if not games alone, and would like to work/am studying to work in the field or a related field, if not as an explicit designer/programmer/artist, then a consultant or technical writer. Maybe work as a games or tech historian — had a professor who did that and he was very interesting, but the academic/historical career path is very rough.
I guess what I'm kinda saying, it's about ethics in game journalism and the game industry at large, but without the whole hateful prejudice and discrimination angle, and without doxxing or other vigilante (whether internet-based or physical world) hate crime aspects.
If you want to call me anything, I'm a fierce meritocratist or technocratist, with the huge caveat that I understand the value and necessity of diverse viewpoints to create better goods and services. Whether that's based on gender, sex, race, place of origin, philosophical beliefs, disabilities (or lack thereof - both mental and physical), age, etc. Any identity qualifier you could think of. I believe that knowledge and truthful information is the root of all power.
Anyway, I'll leave it at that.
Hell of a time to voluntarily clad yourself in the GamerGate cape and still ask to be taken seriously.
Don't let the door hit your ass on your way out, friend.