@Graham: Not a jab at all. Every person on the Kotaku team is talented and a valuable member of the team. I'm happy to be working with all of them. It's a statement of fact that some of the team tend to do original reporting and others don't. Reporting isn't required for good blogging any more than writing funny posts, doing a great photoshop, writing a fantastic review or sparking a good community discussion is. All are valuable contributions. But not all are reporting. I don't champion one over the other.
Kotaku should have it all. I just know that what I bring best to the table is reporting. And I recognize those in the team who also tend toward that. If all Kotaku did was straight-up reporting it wouldn't be as interesting and fun a site as it is.
Doesn't Kotaku Tower have a missile defense system based off Missile Command? Totillo would probably survive but the crowds of gamers huddling around the tower would probably get hit by the debris :(
@A_Knothole_Resident: That's a bit general of a statement, don't you think? Nowadays MTV is more than just a channel. For instance, the Multiplayer blog that Stephen wrote for previously was a genuinely good source for video game news and commentary, and MTV Games helps put out Rock Band. So maybe you should cool it on the hatorade perhaps?
@Darth Navster: MTV has become a shell of what it used to be. Back in the 80s, it was music channel dedicated to playing music videos 24 hours day, 7 days a week. You cant deny the fact of how much this channel has degenerated into a cesspool of superficial reality shows. MTV stood for Music Televsion, now its just a clusterfuck of fail. I grew up with this station back its heyday and its reasonable for people my age to feel bitter about its current state.
@Takamofo: That is depressing, but I don't recall people complaining when MTV starting airing Liquid Television or The State, either. I'd say the network's biggest problem is the absence of quality versus the absence of musical content... pathetic as that may sound.
@Darth Navster: Doesn't anyone else remember MTV2? You know, that 2nd MTV station that was supposed to be the same thing as the 1981 MTV? You know, all music videos all of the time?
And how long that lasted?
MTV can't market music anymore, which is hilarious.
@d4ng3r0u5: I do think MTV did the right thing for the viability of its network by adopting these terrible but popular shows. The network has too much competition, particularly with the Internet, to be the viable, solitary source for music videos as it once was.
I also suspect there just aren't enough videos to supply a 24-hour network, even as willing to run things into the ground as MTV has proven itself. Yeah, there's a wealth of videos from past years, but people won't sit through them as they would the latest tart's clips, and advertisers wouldn't pay as much for the sponsorship.
@Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky: It's not that round. That's a photoshop trick. It's part of my contract that photos of me get touched up in order to present a more spherical cranial shape.
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Best of luck to you!
That's one less site to read on a daily basis. :)
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That sure does sound a lot like a jab to me. SOME of the Kotaku guys? What are you trying to say? That they're not all awesome?! GOOD DAY, SIR!
I SAID GOOD DAY.
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Kotaku should have it all. I just know that what I bring best to the table is reporting. And I recognize those in the team who also tend toward that. If all Kotaku did was straight-up reporting it wouldn't be as interesting and fun a site as it is.
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plus he smells like Clorox bleach
showers zero times a week
look at his feet!
now watch him DOOOOOOO!!
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DOOOOOOO!! give him 50 cents
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And how long that lasted?
MTV can't market music anymore, which is hilarious.
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I also suspect there just aren't enough videos to supply a 24-hour network, even as willing to run things into the ground as MTV has proven itself. Yeah, there's a wealth of videos from past years, but people won't sit through them as they would the latest tart's clips, and advertisers wouldn't pay as much for the sponsorship.
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