when I click *2020-05-29 (Jan, Abby, Jeff, Vinny + Brad & Ben)* The vinny episode is bringing up a 404 page, though it wasn't doing it last night, so I guess something changed on GB's end?
14 hours on Team Fortress 2. There was a popular custom map server called 2Fort 2Furious that had a message board with a thread challenging members to a marathon challenge.
There is a big difference between a recorded discussion on a topic and making the editorial decision to publish 4 articles covering the same topic.
The people at Polygon are writers. The people at Giant Bomb used to write a lot, but now they give their opinions through speaking. That's really the only difference.
Also, they're not articles, they're op-ed. People try to put these editorials up as Polygon pushing a huge controversy or like they're having a dramatic meltdown. No, they're writing out their criticisms on something they noticed. If anything, you could criticize them for being bloggy (the "There were more severed heads than women presenters" was too flourishy) but that's kind of the way people want to get their news now it seems. It can be just as bloggy on Giant Bomb, just in a different way from other game sites.
I think blanket condemnations of Polygon over a couple of op-ed's really does a disservice to positive ones like this by Elisa Melendez:
@anwar: Bosman isn't photogenic to you? I think he is. He's quick on the mic, charismatic, thin, etc. He's got a big nose, but that one lady at IGN has a big mole on her face. She's good at her job too. I feel like sites like IGN or GT are ran more in a "mainstream" production kind of way, i.e. what G4 tried to do but not in a completely asinine, lazy L.A. kind of way. You also have to consider that finding a guy who's actually trying to get hired to a game site who can present in front of a camera and be quick, funny and charismatic, and looks like a model, you're kind of looking for a needle in a haystack. I think it also depends a lot more on the job you're trying to fill. If you're looking for someone who's basically a video host, you just don't want them to look unattractive. Maybe there's a higher standard from people who do the hiring at those companies, maybe women who work extra hard on how they look are the only women trying to get hired on those jobs. It gets more complicated when we get further into this part of the issue. Maybe more complicated than I can argue, based on this rambling wall of text I just made.
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