WE HAVE OFFICIALLY APPOINTED A NEW ENEMY
We haven’t made an enemy for ages, so this is quite an exciting return to hating people we don’t know on the internet. Our new, official enemy is The Player. It is a PDF magazine. And there are even more reasons to hate it than that.
The third-last thing the world needs more of is PDF magazines. Not only is The Player a PDF magazine, and therefore literally unreadable without doing something out of the ordinary, but it’s also only available as a zipped file. And it runs MSN conversations between the staff as features. Even Edge never stooped that far up its own arse.
The second-last thing the world needs more of is NINE PAGE interviews with Kieron Gillen, conducted by the sort of people who aspire to one day be like Kieron Gillen if they keep plugging away on that irreverent blog of theirs. NINE PAGES!
And the actual last thing the world needs more of is a FULL PAGE PHOTO of Kieron Gillen’s face, especially not if you’ve just bought a 20″ monitor and are yet to turn the brightness down. There’s nothing that bad about Kieron’s face in particular, it just creates a general feeling of rage.
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF NEW ENEMY:
We are now at a state of enemies with The Player. Anyone caught mentioning, reading, linking to or promoting it in any way is therefore an enemy of UKR.
filed in Uncategorized on Jul.24, 2007
July 24th, 2007 on 2:04 pm
The Player thanks you for providing 2 working links on your popular “blog”
July 24th, 2007 on 2:10 pm
What is it that’s so annoying about Gillen?
He was part of the reason I stopped reading PC Gamer.
July 24th, 2007 on 3:05 pm
I don’t think i could hate this with the same passion i reserve for Sony but i certainly think it’s shite and PDF files are the work of the devil.
mpshfu = the secret art of homosexual kung fu known only by sellect tory politicians.
July 24th, 2007 on 3:07 pm
But but but you posted a link to The Player yourselves, you thick cunts!
July 24th, 2007 on 3:10 pm
So i vote for pre-emptive strike… can we send exploding shit (literally) to their address?
July 24th, 2007 on 3:26 pm
I’m the author of the article. Boy, you sure picked the wrong fight- a bunch of honkey resitence boyos stand no chance against The Player’s director of internet jihad operations. No sirree bob.
This is war, holy war. I spit on your mother’s grave.
Prepare for a sustained & indiscriminate blogging attack.
July 24th, 2007 on 3:38 pm
This article is not New Games Journalism enough.
Lose.
July 24th, 2007 on 3:54 pm
Wow, Dean, Gonzo, James…it’s like The Player in here. Except we’re talking on a fucking shit website this time.
Why is that?
July 24th, 2007 on 3:55 pm
It’s not shit.
It’s eclectic.
July 24th, 2007 on 3:55 pm
Bring it on! We’re gonna banterise you silly.
July 24th, 2007 on 3:57 pm
“a bunch of honkey resitence boyos stand no chance against The Player’s director of internet jihad operations”
My god are we dealing with a black racist welsh muslim fundamentalist from the 80’s?
Game on!
July 24th, 2007 on 4:08 pm
This has suddenly gone all weird and insider and I’m feeling left out. It’s like 1987 all over again.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:10 pm
Well, I’m no expert in the whole online blogging thing, I like this block, and I looked at the player’s site and I came up with the conclusion he is a “COCK”?
July 24th, 2007 on 4:16 pm
How PoMo.
Cunts.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:21 pm
Hmmm…
Not exactly user-friendly, is it? A PDF in a zip file?
That’s like writing a magazine in size 0.05 print so people need to go out and get special glasses to read it and then putting it in a locked box so they have to go fetch a key as well.
Too much effort for me.
And I haven’t trusted Gillen since his review of Hitman: Codename 47. That game deserved a decent score.
BTW, nice site Zorg. I’m a regular lurker, first time poster.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:25 pm
I downloaded it. :( It’s like a masterclass in how to write like a pretentious overblown cunt.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:28 pm
Are all people called Kieron this ugly?
I’ve got a mate called Kieron and if you take away the glasses and add ginger hair you have the exact same gormless looking twat.
No offense Kieron M but you are a gormless looking ginga twat.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:30 pm
I don’t even know who that gillen guy is; am i not cool then?
PDF’s piss me off; no one reads magazines anymore.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:35 pm
Awesome. I think this is the first Intarweb war I’ve seen where I’ve had prior knowledge of both sides.
Go at it, people. Fight for my entertainment. I want jibes and cussing, please. Nobody is to surrender, because that’s tedious.
July 24th, 2007 on 4:44 pm
kabbes your not allowed to be Switzerland in this war, pick a side or fuck off.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:01 pm
He can be the French. He’ll have a side, but won’t do much fighting.
P.S
UKR sucks.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:07 pm
This is good. I’ve been wanting to hate someone new for a good three weeks now.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:08 pm
Yeah, you guys go back to your naked pictures of Sonic, we’ll stick to our naked pictures of Gillen.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:08 pm
Wow nearly 15megs of stuff you could find on the Internet, minus the wank shots of Gillen.
There index page on the mag is like an epileptic fit of fonts, oh and how can they review C&C3 and not use the words shite and EA sucks.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:15 pm
It’s quite bad.
They think they’re the new PDF mag for people with ‘standards’. I think they’re the new PDF mag for people who don’t really know what they should be reading.
It’s such a load of wordy-for-the-sake-of-it hard-to-read pointless shite. The articles have no focus or objective and it’s clear no one knows what they’re doing.
The press release that’s just gone out is really embarrassing for them and they are making fools of themselves.
There’s nothing at all of interest in this ‘magazine’ and it’s full of subbing mistakes.
What exactly are they trying to do? Who are they aiming at? And why oh why do they interview a journalist? Over nine pages?
It’s so very very bad. NEVER EVER interview a fellow journalist as it always reflects badly on the quality of your own staff, who to be honest should be claiming to be the best journos out there, not fawning over a real journo from whom they obviously seek approval.
Very, very bad.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:17 pm
Oh and of course UKR was going to post up links – they haven’t done that by accident. How else are people going to laugh along?
July 24th, 2007 on 5:23 pm
Yeah…
Well…
I dont see you interviewing Kieron Gillen!
July 24th, 2007 on 5:26 pm
“Since 2003, Gillen has collaborated with artist Jamie McKelvie on a comic strip for the official Playstation Magazine UK, entitled Save Point.”
“Gillen also originated the phrase ‘robo-crazy’ during an interview for a video games satellite channel.”
OK now i’m builing up the image of a completely self-obsessed geeky cunt, why is that?
July 24th, 2007 on 5:26 pm
Next issue is gonna carry a 12 page interview of Henni, the guy who interviewed Gillen. I’ll be next on the list, published in Issue 10.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:28 pm
Got to admit, PDF magazines are confusing as well. None of the ease or reading or quality writing like a print magazine and none of the instant news, screens and videos you get from online media.
And you’re expected to download it, unzip it and then what? Read it on a monitor!? Print it off at a MASSIVE personal cost to yourself!? And not even a ropey demo in sight? Or Final Fantasy beta?!
What is the point?!
July 24th, 2007 on 5:46 pm
“My god are we dealing with a black racist welsh muslim fundamentalist from the 80’s?”
We are peaceful. We love peace. We want free palestine … not only does he Zionist Enemy invade our contry- but UK Resistance delcare state of hate against us. This will not stand. The Ummah will fight this injustice. Already the Swansea Taxi Driver’s Union gives us support. Soon we will swarm the Marxist Scum that is UKR.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:58 pm
What a lot of arrogant noodling that PDF contains.
July 24th, 2007 on 5:58 pm
“We want free palestine”
I thought that was what the Zionists
wanted, Palestine for free
“We are peaceful. We love peace”
Now you’re a bunch of hippy pacifists!
Jesus i think these guys are shape-shifters!
July 24th, 2007 on 6:20 pm
I want to read “an interview with Mr. Biffo”
July 24th, 2007 on 6:21 pm
The Player is taking illegal action against UK Resistance. rest assured that we will be seeking redress through any and all illegal means available to us. We will pursue our wrongs fiercely and relentlessly.
Accordingly, as a consequence of illegal advice, we will not comment beyond the public announcement hereinbelow quoted.
“Declaration of Internet Squabbling, The Player versus UK Resistance
Today, July 24th 2007, a day that will live in infamy, UK Resistance announced themselves as an OFFICIAL enemy of The Player magazine. Naturally we are all shocked and alarmed by this turn of events. But we will not lie down and die! E-War was officially declared this afternoon 4:27 GMT.
Earlier today, myself and other members of The Player War Cabinet met for our first strategic battle planning meeting. This aggression will not stand! Official Minister Of War Dr Gonzo aka Chemical Henni has been placed in sole charge of operations and plans for a counter-attack of petty blog entries and sarcastic forum posts are in the final stages of planning. Also, a War alliance between The Player and http://www.nintards.com and http://www.xboxstolemylife.co.uk has been formed and Jihadist forces, under the sole control of Chemical Henni have been mobilised for secret operations. Air and Sea forces have been put on a state of heightened alert and the art department informed of the need for a ‘UK Resistance sucks, lol’ main-site banner urgently. Until tommorow comrades ….
Assalamu Aleikum, wa rahmatu’llah.
General Gonzo.”
July 24th, 2007 on 6:25 pm
Qiyamat qiyamat a tawil’
July 24th, 2007 on 6:27 pm
if only I found this player thing before you, I could have ripped the piss out of it on my site!
I might go ahead and do it anyway.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:36 pm
And some one kick the poofs out of the comment box, probably end up as an 80 page feature in their wankrag.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:36 pm
We better prepare ourselves for the pretentious, self-obsessed and overly long incoming attacks then.
Oh never mind they’re coming in zipped PDF format so we can just not bother reading them like everybody else.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:39 pm
Ripping the piss out of something UKR already rips the piss out of is awesome.
Maybe we should rip the piss out of your site on our site? Then you can rip the piss out of our site ripping the piss out of yours.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:49 pm
Makes me wish i had my own site so i could rip the piss out of your site, ripping the piss out of the same site that UK:R rips the piss out of and then rip the piss out of any site that rips the piss out of us for doing it, or something.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:52 pm
slim, do you want to write for The Player?
You have the kind of gumbo we require.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:55 pm
No because then i’d have to kick my own arse.
July 24th, 2007 on 6:57 pm
Slim,
Think about it.
Kicking your own ass is incredibly New Games Journalism!
July 24th, 2007 on 7:01 pm
Can i let you know after the lottery results on saturday?
July 24th, 2007 on 7:39 pm
I like how they namedrop “Tom Bennett” as the designer. The design is shite. It IS NOT XHTML 1.1 and the verify link for their CSS refers to a totally different page. If I was Tom Bennett I would kill myself. Twice.
Unfortunately that’s all I like about the site. PDFs are shit and anybody the almighty UK:R takes dislike to, the almighty Myself takes a similar dislike to also.
Dean can have half a point for coming onto our turf to fight an already lost battle.
Minus 10 for being called Dean.
July 24th, 2007 on 7:48 pm
Oh no!!!
Our website is not coded in wonderful geek languages!!!
July 24th, 2007 on 9:02 pm
I’m not sure I understand…
I should click and download and wait and unpack and download and install a newer version acrobatreader just to read a pile of half baked wank pages written by students about “god of war 2”, an obscure videogame “journalist”, an “videogames politics”?
That’s silly.
Zorg, these failed students don’t deserve UKR’s most precious hate.
They deserve silent despise. Look at what you’ve done : they are so lonely that your hate is like attention to them. Something they crave for, and now they feel like, at last, someone noticed them. They feel they found “a somewhere” on the net where to exist (being hated is so warm and soft and beautiful to them, compared to this silence. It’s the nearest form of social relation to friendship they ever got).
You shoud delete you update about them, so that silence can reign again, as it’s their real house.
– zlahcpze : the pdf magazine I’d replace the “players”‘update with. It’s a polish battery magazine.
July 24th, 2007 on 10:15 pm
If you want to really hurt them why don’t we just spoil the ending of the new harry potter book for them?
July 24th, 2007 on 10:57 pm
Big Gillen face pictures? Print them out and punch them or throw darts at them.
July 24th, 2007 on 11:02 pm
An interview with a PC games journalist
Whats “hot” and whats “not” in the world of videogames?
Blobs of paint to try and make your mag look arty and sophisticated
Pathetic!
and o my god this shitty game art reminisant of I am 8-bit, o how much i hate I am 8-bit, whats the point? anyway off topic.
However they do rave about a Sega game, shame its virtua striker 2, possibly the one of the worst
Sega games I ever played, but i suppose that makes them cool cos they like a game that nobody else liked.
PATHETIC
July 24th, 2007 on 11:10 pm
Go and fuck your Real Doll, Ross.
July 24th, 2007 on 11:24 pm
Look at the pasting they get after posting a pretentious load of wank on the rllmuk forum;
http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=164042
July 24th, 2007 on 11:28 pm
Haha, pretentious.
How exactly is it pretentious? Because we’re cocky cunts?
LOL
July 24th, 2007 on 11:37 pm
I get the feeling no one here really knows what pretentious means.
Also, you’re entering a world of pain, UKR. A WORLD OF GODDAMN PAIN.
Love you.
Yours,
Paint Troll – The Player
July 25th, 2007 on 12:01 am
No amount of sarcastic humour will ever convince me that a PDF document that isn’t a papercraft model or a set of instructions (or both) is a good idea.
Though even if you converted the whole thing to Flash player, the content would remain unreadable. It’s as if six wordy nerds on a dying forum captured an art editor from Edge magazine and forced them to make their ramblings look credible.
July 25th, 2007 on 12:03 am
Dean,
Stop trying to defend yourself. The best thing you can do is take the high ground that you and your buddies so desperately crave and not respond.
And while you’re not responding, how about having a go at looking beneath all the hatful messages and mockery to attempt to discover where you went wrong.
The fact is, you’re not just getting all this stick because you’ve all come out of nowhere with an ill-deserved sense of accomplishment and cockyness – the mag is completely pointless.
It has nothing to say and what it does try to put across is locked up in the flowery failed attempts at dynamic prose by people who lack the experience or the vocabulary to make this work.
Obviously you’re frustrated – you guys believed you were sitting on the holy grail and now you’re being mocked. Just go back to the drawing board, fix the writing and the subbing and rid the mag of cliches and irrelevent nonsense and try again. What do you have left to lose?
July 25th, 2007 on 12:08 am
“Six wordy nerds”?
I’m sure there’s a least a dozen of them…
July 25th, 2007 on 12:10 am
Jay,
Trust me, if I cared about defending myself, I wouldnt spend my time here.
I love UKR.
This whole adventure is a lot of fun!
July 25th, 2007 on 12:19 am
Who the fuck is Tom Bennett? I mean, not our one, but apparently there is a famous, good one. Heh.
Still lolling very hard, and Jay makes my day.
Post again Jay!
July 25th, 2007 on 12:25 am
What I want to know is, where Silent Bob?
EPIC FAIL.
July 25th, 2007 on 1:01 am
“anybody the almighty UK:R takes dislike to, the almighty Myself takes a similar dislike to also.”
Saves having your own opinion, doesn’t it?
July 25th, 2007 on 1:37 am
Christ are those guys still here?
I thought that group suicide, spurred on by career ending put-downs would have ensued by now, maybe my watch has stopped.
July 25th, 2007 on 1:40 am
Hi Slim,
Its only 5.40PM here, I’ve got another six hours in me.
Speak soon,
Dean x x
July 25th, 2007 on 1:55 am
I’m too wired on being awesome to commit suicide. Maybe tomorrow.
July 25th, 2007 on 2:12 am
Promise?
July 25th, 2007 on 2:19 am
I will if you will. Pact?
July 25th, 2007 on 2:56 am
Have you noticed that the Player uses written words? Don’t they know that Hitler wrote a book? They’re fsking Nazi’s!
I hereby invoke Godwin’s law, and declare everyone a loser.
July 25th, 2007 on 3:45 am
I’m 37 now but I gotta say it. That smug “im better than you looking face” in my school would have gotten it kicked in and then bogwashed, and if you happened to be in the “Woodwork Department” – Boston’d…which involved a long length of 2×2 wood….Not trying to incite violence or anything but youve got to agree havent you…
July 25th, 2007 on 4:21 am
Wow, these Player guys really, really love to post comments. It’s a clear indication of what cunts they really are.
Also, note to everyone, please stop commenting on the captchas, or I will hit you with my “mdxrmbiz.” (That’s “Medic’s arm Bio Intensified Zapper.”)
July 25th, 2007 on 8:27 am
After reading their blog for a bit it’s clear that they are all idiots who try to be cool and failing miserably at it. And they respond with childish and unfunny remarks like jihad and UK:R sucks, when people rightfully critizise their sorry excuse for a magazine. They deserve to have their hands cut off and their tongs cut out so they never put shit like “the player” on the web again. This magazine is why politicians are questining to censor internet and it should be destroyed.
July 25th, 2007 on 9:26 am
You always get shit-loads of comments whenever you upset someone Zorg.
I only seem to be able to upset dole scammers.
July 25th, 2007 on 9:34 am
“They deserve to have their hands cut off and their tongs cut out“
I think you are confusing humans with food-service robots. Dickhead.
July 25th, 2007 on 10:08 am
72 comments about a PDF magazine. War IS ugly.
And so is that Kieron.
July 25th, 2007 on 10:22 am
“anybody the almighty UK:R takes dislike to, the almighty Myself takes a similar dislike to also.”
“Saves having your own opinion, doesn’t it?”
Wow Mike everyone on UK:R agrees with the creator’s opinion, everyone on your blog/forum think your a bunch of cunts.
I’m sure theres a lesson to be learned here.
July 25th, 2007 on 10:53 am
I thought The Player was the biggest load of needless bollocks on the internet until they turned up in the comments section trying to be “edgy” and “witty” and “not bothered about being slammed by UK:R, honest”. Christ. Go wank in your own corner, and keep out of ours.
liktfly – lick the fly (in Yorkshire)
July 25th, 2007 on 12:06 pm
Christ’s Alive. What a cunt.
I’ve not even read the fucking PDF magazine of theirs and I’ve already decided that it has been written by a fucking bunch of morons who know little to nothing about writing.
—
It’s from their blog post –
http://theplayermagazine.blogspot.com/
Where they single out the two worst “journalists” working in the games press. Tim Rogers and Kieron Gillen.
I actually despise the shitheaded musings of Rogers more, he never fucking gets to the point and elaborates on tedious details that he thinks makes him funny and irreverent, it doesn’t, it just pisses off people who want content. No one cares about what you think of Kojima’s glasses or whether Sakaguchi gives a shit about Gears of War, you stupid fucking imbecile.
—
And this Dean guy, writing for The Player has only just fucking discovered “New Games Journalism”? Where the fuck have you been? Under a rock? Scotland? It’s already outmoded and entirely irrelevant.
Cunts like Gillen think they’re improving and expanding the influence of the games industry press by writing about the games industry press. No doubt, he’s one of the tossers that wank over a copy of the “Videogames” Style Guide.
He’s fucking wrong. And so are you. You want to the games press to be taken seriously? Then just write good insightful works. Sean Black’s piece on Jedi Knight has nothing at all to do with fucking travel journalism, and it’s a shame that it had been tarred with the brush of NGJ, what it is, and what it should be taken as, is just a great piece of writing.
Something these journalism fetishists just can’t handle.
July 25th, 2007 on 12:40 pm
I have met Kieron Gillen in real-life and he is not a cunt.
Bit of a bell-end, but not a cunt.
The letters “PDF” are a guarantee I will not click on something and I fail to see why fucking idiots use it. What amazing whizzbangery can you achieve in a PDF you can’t on a web-page? You really think people will download it and read it for hours on a fucking computer screen? I got a headache just reading 77 fucking comments.
July 25th, 2007 on 1:50 pm
Just noticed that the header font and splotchy paint daubs are reminiscent of Ralph Steadman’s work, most noteably in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Added to the fact that one of their writers calls himself ‘Gonzo’ means their twattage levels just blew the fucking gauge!
I mean, don’t get me wrong – I love Hunter S. Thompson, and that book is one of my favourites – the film too – but anyone that styles their literature/art after something so cult-worthy, and without humour, satire or relevance, is A Definite Prick.
July 25th, 2007 on 2:11 pm
..and they committed the cardinal sin of the English language – spelling LOSE as LOOSE.
July 25th, 2007 on 2:26 pm
At least these guys have made an effort to produce something regardless of its merits. All you sad faceless cuntflaps bashing someone elses hardwork should try and do better or fuck off. Sad twats.
July 25th, 2007 on 2:35 pm
if new games journalism is people recounting their thoughts, feelings and experiences of playing a game, what is interviewing a new games journalist? NEW new games journalism?
soon it will be so far removed from the original topic (and so far up its own ass) that it will be forgotten.
wtlsmnh – whsmiths for consonantally incontinent?
July 25th, 2007 on 2:43 pm
oh no! i’ve lost my faceless face up my cuntflap!
July 25th, 2007 on 4:29 pm
I’ve think I’m in love with Katherine.
I’m writing a poem about it.
July 25th, 2007 on 5:36 pm
I was going to download the PDF but a colleague emailed me a link to some boobs and it was awesome! This is exactly why electronic magazines will never catch on.
July 25th, 2007 on 7:22 pm
The Player? MORE LIKE THE GAYER!!!
This comment now has more intellectual worth than Kieron Gillen’s whole body of work.
July 25th, 2007 on 7:39 pm
You “the player” dumbasses. Eat shit and die. Only a bunch of challenged brains like yours use pdf as format for a magayzine. Cut the bullshit and get that “hey-i-look-like-gordon-freeman” faced dork out of my face
July 25th, 2007 on 9:31 pm
Holy shit, that article on Gillen is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. Toadying, lumbering, pointless and chronically badly written. And who (other than the clearly “star”-struck author) wants to read an article that long about a games journo? Probably not even Gillen’s mum does.
July 25th, 2007 on 9:52 pm
Racist.
July 25th, 2007 on 9:55 pm
War. The only real losers are the regular commenters on UK:R.
July 25th, 2007 on 11:48 pm
I really lost, what the hell is this all about?
July 26th, 2007 on 12:58 am
Forget the shitty format, I’m not reading anything that tries to call itself “The Player”. It’s the kind of self-pleasuring title thought up by people who wank over pictures of themselves.
I’ve got no real problem with Gillen, I just wish people would realise he’s a FUCKING JOURNALIST who should be busy writing SHITE ARTICLES, not enganging in self-obsessed piss like this.
July 26th, 2007 on 1:11 am
@Mike
I’d never heard of The Player before. Obviously for good reason. It was brought to my attention here and I agree with what was said about it. Why is that not having my own opinion? It just neatly coincides with the opinion of others. Which just goes to show more than one person can spot a pile of shit from 50 paces. If you ruled the world would everyone have to have a different opinion to everyone else?
And also, @Dean. Back in the young years of this thread. You should be concerned about “bragging” your site is standards compliant and error free when it isn’t. Fair enough if you want to play a bragging cunts game, but make sure you can actually play and not just Eddy Gordo button bash it and hope for the best. Especially since you seem to be an entirely online entity. What WOULD people think?
Well we know what they think, really. It’s not hard to sort it out either.
July 26th, 2007 on 6:14 am
@EMP: Eddy Gordo was a fucking pimp, and really could fuck you up.
This is fact.
July 26th, 2007 on 8:55 am
These twats are worse than the Versustv lot, and what happened to them?
July 26th, 2007 on 11:23 am
Man, this is some horrible shit. This is worse than Edge.
July 26th, 2007 on 12:24 pm
FFS.
Zappy: people putting time and effort into something does not make it or them automatically worthy of respect. I strained heroically for five minutes at a shit this morning, but if I stuck photos of it in a PDF on the internet then I’d still be a cunt, and people would be right to tell me so.
Dean: “Eddy Gordo was fucking pimp”, not “a fucking pimp”. You suck.
darthjim: Pretentious means you use big words that you don’t actually understand, where little ones would get your point across much better because you’re trying to impress people. It means “Brooks” thinks that peppering his/her text with contractions (“factions’ve”, “enhancements’re”, “vogue’ll”, wtf?) is a stylistic device (it’s not). It means thinking your literary wanking is too good or too important for simple webpages so you cram it in a PDF with print-style layouts. It does not mean references to “try-hard snobs” in try-hard, snobbish opening paragraphs; that would be “irony”.
Fuckhats.
July 26th, 2007 on 1:44 pm
INTERNET RAGE
July 26th, 2007 on 1:45 pm
Gonzo,
Funnily enough, I’m not so keen on the idea of catching AIDs!
‘Kisses’,
Katherine.
July 26th, 2007 on 1:52 pm
Wait… has he got good aids or bad aids?
July 26th, 2007 on 3:57 pm
An ode to Catherine
esterday I was a bit down.
And faced the day with a frown
Got slated by UK Resistance
And people called me a ponce
In the Thames I was well ready to drown.
Then I saw her post- she called me dumb.
And the way she did it- with superb aplomb!
Such charm, wit and beauty, it woke up me dong.
& I’ll freely admit that I did do a tuggy.
& do hope to Allah she won’t guess that I’m ugly.
July 26th, 2007 on 6:25 pm
Its all very professionally done and I would never slag off someones hard work, but its everything that made me stop buying Edge and keeps me away from 1337 forums, only multiplied by 523 to the power of eleventy-seven-billion.
July 27th, 2007 on 12:14 am
That’s all well and good, but does anyone fancy a wank over some Sonic 2 speedruns?
July 27th, 2007 on 2:47 am
I think that most of the rage going on here is from people who missed the point entirely.
Brooks rocks your world. Admit it. Once you accept it, you can move on with your life, without having to insult people you’ve never met about a magazine you’ve not read.
July 27th, 2007 on 1:24 pm
Erm, no, “Brooks” does not “rock my world”. There’s little more tedious than someone who thinks that a drearily affected style of writing equates to good writing. It doesn’t. Good writing gets across the point, that’s it. An increased vocab helps – if you can use it properly – because it allows for more succinct and nuanced language.
Spunking apostrophes at random across a page, however, does not help. It doesn’t do anything other than make it less readable, and to get away with something like that you’ve got to be a really good writer. Judging by that dreary load of smug wank, however, he simply isn’t. It’s one of the most shit things I’ve ever waded through. Apart from the Gillen piece, obviously.
I’m not entirely sure what “the point” is, but presuming it’s something to do with upping readership, I’d suggest it’s not us missing it.
July 30th, 2007 on 7:34 am
i just thought i’d leave a comment.
July 30th, 2007 on 1:58 pm
Oh man! What did they give Tekken 2? I can’t be bothered checking PDFs so can anyone post cheats from the cheat pages here plz.
Dead Rising cheats if poss thanks.
qvwknrv- Fuck off
July 31st, 2007 on 8:49 pm
I thought it was just me that had this absolute loathing of that wank shaft kieron Gillen….Guy is so far up his own arse its unbelievable. Hes a knob who writes about games….You want a class reviewer get Charlie Brooker Or Steve Hill or anyone else from PC Zone…Only one of Pc gamer i even like is Tim Stone
August 1st, 2007 on 10:29 am
I thought it was neat enough, and certainly more readworthy than your average web site or gaming mag.
That you really get into a rage because of their attitude is telling. They may not be the new wine, but they are have done more of worth in that one PDF than GameSpot does in an average year.
Yeah, some of it should be cut, and they obviously need an editor. But to slag it of like you all do here … I don’t get it. It’s a decent effort.
Also, I, for one, enjoyed the Gillen interview.
August 5th, 2007 on 6:23 pm
Kent William, you sound like a right wanker.
There isn’t actually any information at all in that load of shite, just NSJ bollocks expanded over every page.