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The end of the Gamespot forums

Gamespot is moving to a new CMS (Wordpress), which is good for them, but bad for everyone who used the social stuff from the old custom made CMS that was made for Gamespot in the early 2000s. Aka, the forums. They are keeping the accounts and usernames for the new site, but any user generated content does not seem to be coming along, as they said they will be sunsetting them. At the very least, it's not happening immediately, they said there's a window of time, and they will let us know when it will be sunset. I don't think there's anyone at Gamespot left that even knows how to handle all the code that runs the social component of the site, which is why the new site doesn't even have them or link to them. It will likely be replaced with Fandom software (if anything). I’ll miss the social media aspects of this site like the blogs, user videos, and forums, it’s what I grew up in since 2005. I found the site through a Bellsouth directory when looking for videogames. ...

State and stupidity of Xbox

I’ve been seeing some defenders of Xbox and Microsoft say that closing down the game studios whose games underperformed is the right thing to do. I think this read of it infantilizes the executives and makes the people getting paid less than a percentage of what they make seem like they have real control. If an executive approves a game about a polar bear wielding samurai swords, then the executives will also make sure that their marketing department will launch proper support to sell the game, and their finance department allocate appropriate budget for the title based on market conditions and the expected timeframe the game will take to develop. The people making sure the polar bear can swing the samurai sword should not, at any point, be worrying about those other aspects. Bad executive decisions tend to fail. Good ones don’t. There is more to being a game executive than micromanaging a game studio, in fact, if they are doing so, then that means they aren’t doing the rest of t...

20 years of my YouTube channel

I set up my YouTube channel on Apr 24, 2006. It has since grown to be around 220k subscribers, but I never intended it to be popular. I originally created it to post my videos. I originally made videos for myself and friends, and would post them on Gamespot User Videos, back when that site allowed users to upload their own videos. They would be silly little animations about videogames that I made on my computer. Some of my videos uploaded to Gamespot User Videos (the thumbnails were not saved by the Wayback Machine). The Paper Mario one is still available because I put it on YouTube, but the Star Fox one is lost forever. At the time, YouTube was already one year old and gaining in popularity, and since Gamespot User Videos was simply giving the same service as YouTube, I decided to start uploading some of my videos to YouTube as well. The first video was a reupload of a Paper Mario animation I had made for Gamespot User Videos: However, although nowadays my channel is practi...

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