sabadongelov

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Stop.

Think.

Think some more.

Between the two of us, who was chastising someone over their lack of objectivity, and who was telling them to go for it so long as they had something worthwhile to say and could back it up? Between those two opinions, who do you really think is the one who has an issue with unobtainable perfection here?

Think about it a bit more. I'll wait.
There is no contradiction in what I have said. Saying to someone that they should aim for objectivity when reviewing games and avoid breaking the reviewing rules both in letter and in spirit is not demanding perfection.

Claiming that it is pointless to strive for objectivity because objectivity only has value if it is 100 percent is a typical example of how perfect becomes the enemy of good, as objectivity is something positive and that attitude, if applied generally, would mean that there would never be any objectivity at all.

Finally, don't think I missed when the dude in question admitted to having several of his previous reviews deleted by the mods (I guess that entire conversation in turn got nuked by the mods). That is no coincidence.

My brother in Christ, it's user reviews on a pirate eroge game site. The only standard is 'does the reviewer have a pulse'.

There is no QA, and you cannot impose it on others. Your best tool is, and remains, your own media literacy. You need to be able to read a review and determine for yourself if the contents are worthwhile or not.

Counter Point: This isn't MetaCritic, there isn't a curated weighted aggregate score from people trying to be professional or objective. This is the worst version of Amazon or Temu user reviews (with the added caveat that you cannot mention anything comparable in your review, it is verboten), exacerbated by the fact that the vast majority of people posting reviews are thirsty dipshits.
It doesn't matter, because it still works decently. As I have pointed out two times before, good games generally get high scores and bad games generally get low scores. The rating score generally says a lot more about a game than most single reviews. And also, if a game has 300 reviews, do you read every fucking review and apply your "media litteracy" on every single one? Even though you yourself claim they are all shit... Because I sure as hell don't. I only read the last less-than-five-star reviews of games who have high average scores to begin with, to determine if there is something in an otherwise promising game that I wouldn't like.

That's probably on me, in that I was struggling for a more concise way to say 'don't review tank based on kinks you don't like', so as to flippantly summarize what you said for comedic effect.

Which, back to the original person in question, they weren't planning to do. They didn't enjoy the ending, and wanted to give it a 1 star. I said to go ahead, so long as they had something worth saying they could back up with more than 'just because'. After that, your response to me was...

"Nah, people shouldn't down rate games just because the game contains fetishes they don't like."

Which is largely how we got here, because I've been genuinely flabbergasted by your responses this whole time...
I don't see why you would have a problem with review tanking based on kinks the reviewer do not like. It is basically the same thing that you are defending. Also, if someone gives one star to a game based on "I don't like bad endings" or "I don't like Spanish people" or "I don't like horror", that person by definition has nothing worth saying in a reviewing context.
 
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