I briefly wrote articles for an oldschool PC hardware outlet (HardOCP if anyone remembers)... And I'm surprised any such sites are still alive. Mine shut down, and not because they wanted to.

Why?

Who reads written text over their favorite YouTube personality, or the SEO garbage that pops up first on their search, or first party articles/recs on steam, and so on? No one, except me apparently, as their journalistic integrity aside, I'm way too impatient for youtube videos, and am apparently the only person on the planet that believes influencers as far as I can throw them.

And that was before Discord, Tiktok, and ChatGPT really started eating everything. And before a whole generation barely knew what a website is.

They cited Eurogamer as an offender here, and thats an outstanding/upstanding site. I'm surprised they can even afford to pay that much as a business.

And I'm not sure what anyone is supposed to do about it.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This article was written by Luke Plunkett, who used to work at Kotaku. Some of his past articles include real whiz-bangers like: "Oh No, There Are Women In Battlefield", and "There Is No Saving Cyberpunk 2077." That pretty much tells you everything you need to know.

Sensationalist e-begging for clicks with ragebait articles. Nothing new from a former Kotaku employee.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

And our site was like the opposite. Uh... let's just say many Lemmy users wouldn't like its editor, but he did not hold back gut punches, and refused to watch his site turn into a clickbait farm.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey man, I was a Hardforum user for as long as I can Remember and Kyle was a straight shooter. Even when he jumped to Intel, nobody gave a second thought about his honesty! The problem is that for every Kyle, we have 10 Ryan Shrouts. He was (unlike kyle) one of these writers that was consistently on a high horse talking down to the peasants. Kyle had a short fuse but you always knew where he was coming from. I don't think lemmy users would dislike Kyle at all.

Off topic: Kyle was one of the few CPU testers besides Ian of Anandtech (much later) that recognized the Utility of running benches at 720p to remove GPU bottlenecks. HardOCP is missed to this day.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Off topic: Kyle was one of the few CPU testers besides Ian of Anandtech (much later) that recognized the Utility of running benches at 720p to remove GPU bottlenecks. HardOCP is missed to this day.

This sounds so logical today it's mind boggling that others didn't come to this conclusion.

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