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British artist Pinali sets our hearts aflutter with this animated take on Portal’s Chell (in her Portal 2 outfit).
I keep thinking, if I watch it long enough, the “camera” will pan across and just follow her as she starts shooting the place up.
Portall [Pinalinet]
Each to their own, I suppose. Excellent job in clarifying your opinion, and I’m inclined to agree on the raising of expectations part.
It still get’s me that he’s being paid for pieces like this, though :/
At this point people are just keeping this running “joke” going. Annoying and juvenile, but it is what it is.
I personally don’t mind Plunkett or Ashcraft. Sure not everything they put up is worth reading/looking at, but they do have some interesting stuff every now & then too.
Is that what the ‘stfu’ group really thinks? that people are just ‘trying to keep a running joke going?’
I try to avoid Luke’s articles for the most part now and try to avoid commenting when they’re horrible, but seriously, I can’t believe that’s what people are doing, people are genuinely annoyed/dumbfounded/disgusted with what Luke posts, the fact is Kotaku claims to be a gaming news website that employs games journalists, whether you CONSIDER them that or not, that is what for all intents and purposes they pass themselves off as, and what Luke posts is not something a journalist with any journalistic integrity would do, it’s something that anyone could do, it’s something that my 14 year old cousin DOES do. (actually, he probably does it better, and that IS NOT hyperbole).
Furthermore it’s not as though the comments on these articles are cluttering up what is otherwise a deep interesting community discussion, the very fact the articles are just reposts of a single gif/jpeg whatever from Reddit already ensures there’s not going to be a discussion to ruin with spam, seriously what can you say about this picture other than “that’s cool, good job artist?” The hypocrisy of the people that spam Luke articles with hate comments about people that spam Luke’s articles with hate comments truly astounds me, the utter failure of logic.
“Luke’s not going to stop so stfu’
Well it’s pretty clear at this point that the people who like to attack the articles aren’t going to stop either so…. why bother?
Ahh ok, so people are simply jealous of Luke because he (seemingly) has an easy job. I wouldn’t know whether it’s easy or not, and I’m not one to assume. Either way, life’s unfair, stop crying and deal with it.
‘Well it’s pretty clear at this point that the people who like to attack the articles aren’t going to stop either so…. why bother?’
Because at this point it has already been indicated by a member of the Australian staff that if the flaming doesn’t tone down then they’re going to bring back moderation of comments, which will effectively kill any form of discussion amongst commenters.
I reiterate a point I made earlier, I’ve never really considered Kotaku to be a site where people would go to get high quality journalistic news regarding video games. If the American site attempted to do this and solely this they would be quickly forgotten under a sea of like minded sites which do the same thing and do it better. If you want a gaming news site that values journalistic integrity to the letter, there are many other sites that cater to your needs, but as the American articles have apparently told many people, Kotaku US is not one of them.
Kotaku tends to provide a more mixed bag approach which caters to many facets of fandom in reation to its name (Kotaku is an amalgamation of the Japanese words ‘ko’ which means small, and ‘otaku’ which means obsessive fan – usually associated with Japanese fans of Anime, Video Games, Cosplay, etc) which explains many of the articles that Brian Ashcraft brings up.
I said in an earlier article that when I went to the American site to see the comments to a Plunkett article that had been flamed down here, I found many of the comments on the American site were using the article as a jumping off point for discussion amongst themselves related to the general theme the article had provided, and many of the comments were very interesting and insightful. Such discussion doesn’t happen here since many articles of a similar nature down here are quickly flamed into oblivion which makes discussion an impossibility.
I’ve said it before, I have no issue with people criticising authors when it’s justified. But in many cases of late its really hard to find that justification.
If you guys want hard core game journalism, your on the wrong site. Kotaku is great, but somehow i think you all miss the point of what it is ‘about’.
If you don’t like these articles, please fuck off so we don’t have to listen to your incessant whining anymore. PLEASE
But you only know the article is weak after you’ve clicked on it and wasted your time. The only reasonable thing to do is waste more of your time complaining about how you just wasted your time reading the article.
I think that is how the internet works.
nah thats for the Australian Site, they really can’t do much about the American content.
try tips@kotaku.com
I cannot guarantee anything will happen if you spam this email address with your collective hate filled vitriol, but good luck regardless.
IMO, the “stop bashing Luke” is as much a bandwagon as “I hate Luke”. It’s funny how after a single person makes a comment in Luke’s defence, a whole flood of supportive comments come in.
Personally, it makes me angry that Luke gets paid to press ctrl+c, ctrl+v all day.
urgh, please don’t say that, I really don’t want to think of myself as an instigator in all of this. . .
If it does get to a point where there are two clear sides in all this I think Mark will throw his hands up and go back to moderating comments again, and I don’t want to be a responsible party if that was ever to happen.
“Personally, it makes me angry that Luke gets paid to press ctrl+c, ctrl+v all day.”
If that’s all it takes to make you angry, you might need to see a specialist for anger management. He gets paid for what he does, deal with it.
After reading all of said comments, I agree whole heartedly with Ruen, the product of this website is not ‘hardcore journalism’, but an amalgamation of texts that come together. Whether it be Movies, Games, Anime, Comics, Fan Reviews, Community Reviews, Reviews in general and just fun, while I don’t think agree with the simple form of these articles, its targeting a demographic that appreciates small snippets and tidbits of information, that obviously seems to be the minority when it comes to the comment section.
I’m a demographic that prefers in depth articles that allow the user to see different perspectives of the article, where as Luke and Brian tend to create simple articles that are short and quick to the point, enabling the user a gabble, before moving onto the next article which there are many thanks to the way Kotaku brings things together.
I have learnt my lesson on what Kotaku is about, its about the culture, and with it the culture has imbued itself into the style of writing, short and sweet.
I was to emphasise something you wrote, ‘its targeting a demographic that appreciates small snippets and tidbits of information’
This is important because in some circumstances for some reason or another, whether it be where a person is or what they’re doing, or even if they simply have a problem maintaining consentration for a prolonged period of time, people sometimes cannot read a full length sized article, in those circumstances having information, regardless of how irrelevant said information might be, delivered to them in bite sized, accessable chunks is a much better option.
I’m not saying we should do away with all the incredably good, in depth work that the Australian contributors give us on a consistent basis, but I’m saying that a mixure of both is not the bad thing many people are making it out to be.
It’s pretty cool and reminds me of the way I played portal. Maybe if i try jumping through here one more time.
Dear everyone,
I am going to ask you all to please tone down the language and the swearing. This starting to get out of hand. We removed the comment approval system because of the growth o=in our community and the level of trust we had in our community to be fair and not devolve into the usual level of internet buffoonery. I’m asking you to prove to me that I made the right decision trusting you.
Constructive criticism is healthy, coming into the every US story and posting vitriol is not. Please show some restraint.
Thanks everyone.
Mark
P.S. I’m posting this whilst on holiday! I’m supposed to be sleeping and doing fun stuff!
Thankyou sire!! I’m so glad someone has finally taken notice! Though I really think perhaps you need to post an actual article rather than just a comment
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So are you sacking Luke?
I’m the Doctor
Thank you for making my opinion feel validated, and conveying my point on this article seem worth it.
As I’ve said multiple times, people don’t have any issue when you criticise an article if it is justified, and there have been occasions when that has happened (I listen two such events in a reply in a different thread I do believe) but the criticism has went too far and now seems to litter every article written by either Plunkett or Ashcraft.
Lukes clever use of dem book learnins makes me think hes gunning for a cameo in Mass Effect 4. This is IGN level journalism after all.
Wow. 54 comments on a story comprising of a .gif.
I wonder how many people clicked the link to read the article, as opposed to clicking the link purely to dump on/defend Plunkett.
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I was expecting a short cartoon.
Even knowing that it would only be a gif, I was expecting something worthwhile.
This was NOT worth while. Whoever animated should be proud of themselves for achieving that much, but its nothing to write about.
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