BREAKING NEWS FROM IGN

[Guild McCommunist]

Scrolling through my RSS feeds and I see this big ol' turd.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/09/wii-us-scary-automatic-shutoff-feature

BREAKING NEWS WII U ADJUSTABLE FEATURES SHOULD PROBABLY BE ADJUSTED.

Just thought I'd point out awful game journalism at it's worst.

 

[chavosaur]

OH NO IF I LEAVE MY GAME TO TAKE A 90 MINUTE CRAP, ALL MY PROGRESS WILL BE GONE ;O;

 

[Guild McCommunist]

What I think is most remarkable is that they put "scary" in the title as though it's some hidden feature of the Wii U that breaks the system when you just adjust it in your fucking settings.

Perhaps a small oversight on Nintendo's side but not enough to warrant an article.

With an obvious plug in the end for readers to "stay tuned".

By the way, did I mention I have a Twitter?

 

[Gahars]

Glad to see that journalistic integrity is alive and well in the 21st century.

 

[DSGamer64]

Idiotic
Gaming
News

That's what IGN stands for.

 

[Gahars]

Idiotic
Gaming
News

That's what IGN stands for.

I'd say it's more along the lines of Inane Gaming News, but whatever floats your boat.

 

[DSGamer64]

Well, only idiots take IGN seriously. Biased reviews are still biased.

 

[Foxi4]

By default, this option is activated, and appears to be set to activate after an hour, as we painfully learned. (...) All is not lost, however. This is able to be adjusted within the system options.

This is not a proper English sentence. The object implied is "option", it is mentioned earlier, however the sentence is constructed wrongly and does not reflect it. An "option" isn't "able to adjust" - the user is able to adjust the option. In other words, this should be phrased like this: "This (feature) can be adjusted within the system options (by the user)." An "option" doesn't exactly imply gradation - options can be turned on or off (opt in, opt out), settings on the other hand can be adjusted... but that's being picky.

Engrish is hard.

 

[SifJar]

Here's the catch - a lack of input is still counted when a game is running and paused.

And they found that surprising?

 

[Foxi4]

And they found that surprising?

I'm sure they would rather if the console just overheats and dies.

By the way, who the hell leaves a console running and unattended for over an hour (unless there's a download in progress, in which case, something is happening and it's not going into Sleep Mode)?

 

[AlanJohn]

Wow, if gaming journalism has fallen so down, I can only imagine the new articles at kotaku....

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Wow, if gaming journalism has fallen so down, I can only imagine the new articles at kotaku....

It's funny that you consider articles on Kotaku "news".

I take back what I said, you're actually pretty funny.

 

[Fear Zoa]

OH NO IF I LEAVE MY GAME TO TAKE A 90 MINUTE CRAP, ALL MY PROGRESS WILL BE GONE ;O;

Nah man this is the wii U, you can take that shit with your new BFF the wii U controller. NO EXCUSES!

 

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[Arm73]

Yeah I saw that too yesterday, and I thought what a load of crap.