Jupiter_x
09-06-2005, 05:57 PM
Originally Posted by The Raging Rob #004 - Why Blogs Suck
Once upon a time, some random idiot decided to post his/her journal online. It was a great new idea, allowing private information to be revealed across the Internet and providing stalkers for all people no matter how boring they were. People put up what supermarket they were going to or what mall they attended, making chat room stalkers a thing of the past and centralizing them on a more localized level: neighborhoods.
From this exciting revolution, people decided to start voicing their opinions. Unfortunately, the people smart enough to register for a blog were stupid in every other aspect, and their opinions voiced were narrow-minded so nobody really cared about them. Then, as humanity de-evolved, people began to read these blogs on a regular basis. Boredom, or stupidity, kicked in and made these things trendy.
Then came along the supposed "news blogs," a form of revolt against professional, 4-year college graduates doing news on a regular basis. Instead of needing a diploma, or the ability to spell, any average idiot could post whatever they felt like and assume they knew what they were talking about. Oftentimes, they wouldn't need interviews. Other times, they'd make up the interviews just to impress others and have more of a following on their blog. Most of these people received no money for their blogs, establishing no other reason for doing so than being borderline retarded.
To make things worse, the professional news organizations began making articles about the blogs, attracting the newspaper readers and television viewers (with more intelligent unbiased approaches) to a cesspool of dead brain cells in the form of a web site with a poor taste in colors.
The blogs, now an underground organization of stupidity, sought to independently revolt against mainstream media in its recent degrading state. Given the circumstances of media becoming a monopoly among three or four major organizations, it sounded like a great idea. Instead of having better-educated journalists giving us the news, we have our neighbor from next door telling us that aliens are coming from another planet on Thursdayton.
When it didn't sound like the blogs could get any worse, people decided to start assuming the names of celebrities in order to receive media attention to fund tabloids. Suddenly, 15-year-old zit-faced Danny was now claiming to be Cher and announcing a sex change. The 12-year-old Wendy became Michael Jackson and admitted to child molestation charges. Nobody could trust anybody and the public miserably failed at an attempt to provide independent news. Good job, everyone. Good job.
This should have come to no surprise. The general masses, as you know, are idiots. People are incapable of accomplishing anything when they're on their own without structure. Give a man a piece of paper and he'll draw obscene pictures to photocopy them, then distribute them to the firm mail boxes. Watch the panic fly.
If the world of blogs couldn't possibly get any worse, they infiltrated our beloved, sacred realm: video games. Suddenly, everyone knew when that "Nintendo Revoltion" whatever thing was coming out. No matter who they were, they knew what was going on fifteen states away from them. Combine this with the easy manipulation of Adobe Photoshop and you've got yourself a professional-looking site made by a professional idiot.
Did it stop there? Not yet! Suddenly, people began to pose as famous game designers. Miyamoto suddenly had fifteen blogs online all claiming that there were fifteen different controller types in the works, even though he's under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) preventing anyone from knowing anything.
Then images flew across the Internet. Kid Icarus has a game, Mario has a game, Zelda has several games, Kirby has one... Even though everyone is under Nintendo's NDA, the masses have suddenly found a collective gathering of photoshopped crap.
To make things even worse, these sites are receiving more clicks than the trustworthy news sites. Instead of anyone caring what Nintendo is really doing, they're sucking down poisons made by the dumbest people in the world. Nobody really cares any more. Who would with so much speculation?
This brings me to one of the best concepts made by them "message bards" whatevers: Teh Megaton. This idea, originally conceived as a system to end the competition of all systems, became a phenomena representing every stupid idea to be made online. With Teh Megaton, it was possible to believe that Nintendo would merge with Sony and Microsoft, provide a VR helmet, jack into the mind and start a new order. Though this might not be Teh Megaton you know of, Teh Megaton really has no definite qualities. Rather, it's a state of mind: being a dumbass. Such a theory exists only to mock others who deserve being mocked.
Teh Megaton is a vacuum of ideas, and I encourage you to use this well-strategized term to make anyone look stupid. In the end, we might just have a system capable of hacking The Matrix and allowing people to fly.
In the end, blogs are nothing more than a waste of precious time. We go there to be amused, but something there gets stuck in our heads. We don't know if it was real or not. It stays there and suddenly it comes to mind when discussing games. You've been bogged down by the blog! You don't know reality from rumor any more and you've lost any sense of credibility! The blogmasters laugh at you for your incompetence and reading their bogus material.
Bogged by the blog.
http://www.revolutionreport.com/articles/read/85 (http://www.revolutionreport.com/articles/read/85)
Once upon a time, some random idiot decided to post his/her journal online. It was a great new idea, allowing private information to be revealed across the Internet and providing stalkers for all people no matter how boring they were. People put up what supermarket they were going to or what mall they attended, making chat room stalkers a thing of the past and centralizing them on a more localized level: neighborhoods.
From this exciting revolution, people decided to start voicing their opinions. Unfortunately, the people smart enough to register for a blog were stupid in every other aspect, and their opinions voiced were narrow-minded so nobody really cared about them. Then, as humanity de-evolved, people began to read these blogs on a regular basis. Boredom, or stupidity, kicked in and made these things trendy.
Then came along the supposed "news blogs," a form of revolt against professional, 4-year college graduates doing news on a regular basis. Instead of needing a diploma, or the ability to spell, any average idiot could post whatever they felt like and assume they knew what they were talking about. Oftentimes, they wouldn't need interviews. Other times, they'd make up the interviews just to impress others and have more of a following on their blog. Most of these people received no money for their blogs, establishing no other reason for doing so than being borderline retarded.
To make things worse, the professional news organizations began making articles about the blogs, attracting the newspaper readers and television viewers (with more intelligent unbiased approaches) to a cesspool of dead brain cells in the form of a web site with a poor taste in colors.
The blogs, now an underground organization of stupidity, sought to independently revolt against mainstream media in its recent degrading state. Given the circumstances of media becoming a monopoly among three or four major organizations, it sounded like a great idea. Instead of having better-educated journalists giving us the news, we have our neighbor from next door telling us that aliens are coming from another planet on Thursdayton.
When it didn't sound like the blogs could get any worse, people decided to start assuming the names of celebrities in order to receive media attention to fund tabloids. Suddenly, 15-year-old zit-faced Danny was now claiming to be Cher and announcing a sex change. The 12-year-old Wendy became Michael Jackson and admitted to child molestation charges. Nobody could trust anybody and the public miserably failed at an attempt to provide independent news. Good job, everyone. Good job.
This should have come to no surprise. The general masses, as you know, are idiots. People are incapable of accomplishing anything when they're on their own without structure. Give a man a piece of paper and he'll draw obscene pictures to photocopy them, then distribute them to the firm mail boxes. Watch the panic fly.
If the world of blogs couldn't possibly get any worse, they infiltrated our beloved, sacred realm: video games. Suddenly, everyone knew when that "Nintendo Revoltion" whatever thing was coming out. No matter who they were, they knew what was going on fifteen states away from them. Combine this with the easy manipulation of Adobe Photoshop and you've got yourself a professional-looking site made by a professional idiot.
Did it stop there? Not yet! Suddenly, people began to pose as famous game designers. Miyamoto suddenly had fifteen blogs online all claiming that there were fifteen different controller types in the works, even though he's under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) preventing anyone from knowing anything.
Then images flew across the Internet. Kid Icarus has a game, Mario has a game, Zelda has several games, Kirby has one... Even though everyone is under Nintendo's NDA, the masses have suddenly found a collective gathering of photoshopped crap.
To make things even worse, these sites are receiving more clicks than the trustworthy news sites. Instead of anyone caring what Nintendo is really doing, they're sucking down poisons made by the dumbest people in the world. Nobody really cares any more. Who would with so much speculation?
This brings me to one of the best concepts made by them "message bards" whatevers: Teh Megaton. This idea, originally conceived as a system to end the competition of all systems, became a phenomena representing every stupid idea to be made online. With Teh Megaton, it was possible to believe that Nintendo would merge with Sony and Microsoft, provide a VR helmet, jack into the mind and start a new order. Though this might not be Teh Megaton you know of, Teh Megaton really has no definite qualities. Rather, it's a state of mind: being a dumbass. Such a theory exists only to mock others who deserve being mocked.
Teh Megaton is a vacuum of ideas, and I encourage you to use this well-strategized term to make anyone look stupid. In the end, we might just have a system capable of hacking The Matrix and allowing people to fly.
In the end, blogs are nothing more than a waste of precious time. We go there to be amused, but something there gets stuck in our heads. We don't know if it was real or not. It stays there and suddenly it comes to mind when discussing games. You've been bogged down by the blog! You don't know reality from rumor any more and you've lost any sense of credibility! The blogmasters laugh at you for your incompetence and reading their bogus material.
Bogged by the blog.
http://www.revolutionreport.com/articles/read/85 (http://www.revolutionreport.com/articles/read/85)