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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It always amazes me to see people hate on certain reviewers / websites for review scores.

It’s literally that one person’s opinion on the game.

Did it not line up with yours? Congratulations, you’re human with your own tastes 👍

Social media creates soooo much hate it’s unreal

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ManniCalavera

@gamingonlinux I have an online abonnement of an old german movie review magazine. Its an Institution, on which one can still find actual reviews and movie analysis. They had a printed magazine, but had to go online due to costs. With that, commentary came.
The review for Dune 2 was a bit more theoretical than your typical one. A bit pretentious for my tastes, but a good review in the sense that it worked with the movie as a cultural text. Comments were: "This is your review for That movie?" and

lazyJawa

@gamingonlinux agreed. It comes from the fact where we live in a world today where many people can't stand when someone else's opinion differs from theirs

Swedneck

@gamingonlinux i think the real problem here is presenting a score and a personal opinion at the same time.
Ben Croshaw makes a point of not assigning scores in Fully Ramblomatic because that sets the wrong expectations.

I would clearly separate the personal opinion in an article from the review score, which should be as objective as feasible rather than people giving wildly different scores because some reviewers REALLY like card games or whatever.

Tical

@gamingonlinux Disagree on it being Social Media:tm: that creates this. The entitlement olympics were happening long before these mediums existed. SM put it in a microscope.

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