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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Stormbringer » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:04 pm

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Absolutely no flicker of recognition of the carnage she'd nearly caused on the face of the driver as she sailed past us at 40mph, she didn't slow down one iota.
Did you catch her reg.?
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:11 pm

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Sly Boots wrote:
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Absolutely no flicker of recognition of the carnage she'd nearly caused on the face of the driver as she sailed past us at 40mph, she didn't slow down one iota.
Did you catch her reg.?
Sadly not. It all happened so fast I was still pulling the children out of the way as she went past, followed up by making obscene gestures at her receding boot :lol:

It was only a bit later I thought I should have got the phone out and taken a photo of the reg.

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Post by Medicine Man » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:32 pm

She was receding? You don't see that that often in women.

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Post by Stormbringer » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:34 pm

It's rude to make obscene gestures at a woman's boot. [-X
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:36 pm

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It's rude to make obscene gestures at a woman's boot. [-X
I believe I also asked the (already well out of earshot) driver what the [expletive deleted] she thought she was doing. :lol:

Yeah, taking a photo probably would have been a better idea at that point :-k

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Post by Sly Boots » Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:40 pm

As some will have noted from a couple of recent game release threads, I'm not keen on a style of writing currently prevalent on RPS notably.

And there's another one here today:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/0 ... ps-review/

A different writer, but the same conceit of "humorously" changing the game's title throughout said review. Rebel Cops becomes... wait for it... Unapproved Fuzz (chortle!)... or Cheeky Lawmen (guffaw!). This goes on and on. Has this become editorial mandate since the original RPS crew moved on? Is it just how people of this generation communicate and I'm too old to have noticed or appreciate it? Is this what passes for humour nowadays?

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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Raid » Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:49 pm

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I'd like to say this was a rare occurrence, but I see it in Lancaster probably on a weekly basis. The terrible one-way system causes some drivers to lose all courtesy and sense.
I cross the one way system next to Waterstones every morning. I've seen at least two people nearly killed there by people speeding to beat that set of lights in the last few years.

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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Rusty » Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:58 pm

Crossing a pedestrian crossing on a green man when everything was topped. My son went a little bit ahead and got to the other side of the road when a motorbike went hurtling past in between us totally oblivious to the lights.

I think that was the first time my son heard me swear :)
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Mantis » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:39 pm

Sly Boots wrote:
Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:40 pm
A different writer, but the same conceit of "humorously" changing the game's title throughout said review. Rebel Cops becomes... wait for it... Unapproved Fuzz (chortle!)... or Cheeky Lawmen (guffaw!). This goes on and on. Has this become editorial mandate since the original RPS crew moved on? Is it just how people of this generation communicate and I'm too old to have noticed or appreciate it? Is this what passes for humour nowadays?
That's the thing I don't get the most. Do these writers think they're witty? Are their audience base actually enjoying this level of humour? Because changing the name of something to repeatedly take the piss out of it is such base level unoriginal nonsense at pretty much the lowest level of humour, I don't find it amusing in the slightest.

Maybe their average reader age demographic has dropped in recent years so they've changed things up to cater for it.

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Post by Stormbringer » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:47 pm

That reviewer, I notice, critiques the game's "writing" a lot. Because he is an expert on that, apparently.
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by arqueturus » Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:36 pm

Sly Boots wrote:
Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:40 pm
As some will have noted from a couple of recent game release threads, I'm not keen on a style of writing currently prevalent on RPS notably.

And there's another one here today:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/0 ... ps-review/

A different writer, but the same conceit of "humorously" changing the game's title throughout said review. Rebel Cops becomes... wait for it... Unapproved Fuzz (chortle!)... or Cheeky Lawmen (guffaw!). This goes on and on. Has this become editorial mandate since the original RPS crew moved on? Is it just how people of this generation communicate and I'm too old to have noticed or appreciate it? Is this what passes for humour nowadays?

GAH!

It could be generational. Or it could be something about those writers being in a bubble where they find each other quips funny and assume that everyone else does too.

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Post by Rusty » Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:20 am

i thought the piece was written fine. Shrug. Maybe if I read them more often the style might annoy me but I thought he got all the salient points across.
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Post by Stormbringer » Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:44 am

To be fair, I think it was just the repeated use of "witty", alternative names for the game's title that was annoying Sly.
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Post by Raid » Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:56 am

I'm sure PC Gamer used to do the same thing, and I don't think I've picked a copy of PCG up since 1999. It typically was reserved for titles in the 40% score or lower. It's certainly not a new technique.

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Post by Snowy » Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:38 am

Sly is not alone, the puerile dribblings of RPS reviews really is reaching new lows.

Borderlands 3 review. Hilariously the word borderlands becomes: Burgerlords Bonglungs Bundlebirds Borgleblood Barterlead Bunglebouts Blastyloot Brute-a-lot. Oh my sides.

It isn't just this kind of fanny that irritates me though, the reviews now frequently descend into utter gibberish. From the same review: "Here’s where I stop circling the wheelbarrow of sausages at the heart of this review, and just dive in with gravy-slick hands", I'm sorry, what?
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