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   waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:03:25 JST waifu

   Is there an alternative to game journalism?

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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:06:09 JST waifu

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     • fighter!

     @f0x@fsebugoutzone.org can't we just have normal people doing reviews or something

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     fighter! (f0x@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:06:11 JST fighter!

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     @waifu dying
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:13:03 JST waifu

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     • fighter!

     @f0x@fsebugoutzone.org I should just make my reviews myself

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     fighter! (f0x@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:13:04 JST fighter!

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     @waifu that's what I say about everything. Can't we just have normal people doing ___? Why does it have to be shitty?
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:14:08 JST Phantasm

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     • fighter!
     @waifu @f0x You have to be a special kind of a human to dedicate your life to playing games 8+ hours a day and write reviews about them. And those types either turned to "Look at this shiny new DEI game that runs at 20 FPS on a 5090", and the more "normal" one turned into "I believe in everything Alex Jones says all the time". Slight hyperbole included.
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     mwee (mwee@decayable.ink)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:43:22 JST mwee

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     Yes I listen to random people on fedi
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:45:01 JST waifu

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     • mwee

     @mwee@decayable.ink indeed, sometimes my recommendations is just me posting "Is X game good?" And then a bunch of people saying NOOO ITS AWFUL or HELL YEAH ITS GOOD

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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:47:23 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @waifu playing the games yourself
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:49:04 JST Rusty Crab

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     @waifu I reject this question because "alternative" implies it was an option to begin with
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:51:00 JST waifu

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     • Rusty Crab

     @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co ok
     
     Is there something that can give me accurate information about games with a hint of opinion but always trying to keep the division on objectivity so I can decide if I want to play the game or not

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     Wrest (wrest@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:56:42 JST Wrest

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     @mwee @waifu when someone here says a game is good I just assume it to be true by default
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:56:50 JST Rusty Crab

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     @waifu I've always found steam reviews reasonably accurate if you have nothing else.
     
     But really the best you can get is finding a forum or community that roughly aligns with you and just asking if anybody's played it.
     
     Corporate game reviewers have never been objective in the slightest and are usually pay-to-play. Either literally or on an ideological basis (they all believe the same thing).
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:57:05 JST waifu

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     • Rusty Crab

     @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co based take

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     KaiserKitty (kaiserkitty@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 05:00:02 JST KaiserKitty

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @waifu tip for steam is to read the negative reviews those will tell you more about if you’ll like a game or not then the glut of memey or vauge positive reviews
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