This is kind of like a detective show where the culprits tries to leave a trail of clever clues to see if anyone will solve them but instead these are just a bunch of tweets projecting one's faults.
IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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Lukewarm take:
If he just made notes from press releases and thew darts as a board of opinions he would have been fine.
Instead we're here.
If he just made notes from press releases and thew darts as a board of opinions he would have been fine.
Instead we're here.
I think that this is a fair criticism (and further, if IGN wants talent, they need to pay more for it because it appears that at the current pay scale they're offering for this job, they had to settle for someone like Miucin).
However, I do also think that it's because video game reviews haven't had their Kael or Ebert yet - someone who can churn out highly-thoughtful, useful reviews on a schedule. There are good analysts like Matthewmatosis, but the sporadic, long-form stuff he does isn't really what IGN is trying to provide to the market.
Honestly, the stuff Miucin stole wasn't even that good - all the more reason for people to think that writing reviews is an easy job.
Well, when it comes to video games, maybe it is, and that's a real problem.
"Thank you so much, you saved me a lot of work"
He whispers as he steals another review to repackage as his own
What did he plagiarize on a live podcast? I’ve been keeping up with the tread but must have missed that one.
Ironically enough, you just quoted the image that you suggested might be ban-worthy. You might want to edit that.
I’m not sure, “Have you literally plagiarized everything you have ever done?” popped up in the interview. It’s something so ridiculous that you wouldn’t even give it a second thought. To put so much effort and also so little effort in at the same time is incomprehensible.
There are doubts about Filip's gaming chops, but given that he's seemingly never had an original thought before, in some ways he's the ultimate gamer.
Even though I've written hundreds of game reviews, it's never easy.
I'm always trying to make sure that my next review is better than my last. After 500+ reviews... That starts to become pretty damn difficult.
Also, I hate to say it because I admire the hell out of the man, but Ebert had it easy. The average movie is less than two hours long, and it's not like he ever had to pick up a controller.
No, but he did have to sit through all of Alien: Covenant.
That is a fate worse than death
Edit: Wait no he'd probably have been dead
He did have to sit through Thor: The Dark World
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Hmm I didn't think through much of that post at all did I
I just Miucin'd myself
Are you familiar with the phrase "edging"?
Get this over with and don't worry about that guy who doesn't even post here
Nvm, what the hell am I looking at? Serbs in America for Trump?
What am I supposed to be seeing here?
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Yeah I'm curious to see if Filip turns up. RGT 85 and Dreamcast Guy are turbo pissed with him and I'm not expecting them to let him off lightly.
I would say a lot of game journalists are sweating right now, this kind of stuff can thrive in pressure/time sensative jobsAt this point I’m just thinking where is the bottom of the hole. Thought Dead Cells was the end of this...more and more seem to be found every day. This just goes...
Have no idea what this is supposed to be...looks like a random users account.
Legit thought the blur was something about Minecraft at first lol
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Motherfucker, he even wrote Ocotopath on the actual article and no one caught that.
I found the account that Realeza is hinting at.
I'm guessing he's related to Filip, but that's as far as I'm going.
There's no reason to bring his family into this.
It took me a long time to realise that video-game reviews are damn hard to write without them sounding juvenile or just a list of facts. I'll say that critiquing a film, book or TV series is way easier, not just because the mediums have been around longer, and therefore criticism is more mature, but also because the facets of those mediums are easier to explore and examine. By the time someone's 18 or 20, they know what good acting looks like, they know what a good script is, and even things like editing and cinematography are easy to comprehend in comparisons. But gaming? So many interconnected issues - control-schemes, intuitiveness of mechanics, frame-rate, input-lag, "feel", graphics, sound... and then we get to story, narrative, characters, script, avoiding tropes,
All of which is to say, plagiarism is wrong, but writing good games reviews is legit a difficult job.
All of which is to say, plagiarism is wrong, but writing good games reviews is legit a difficult job.
