'Everything Is a Story' Inside Wyrmwood Gaming's Narcissistic Funhouse

[Umbran]

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[Emberashh]

Maybe you feel she was editorializing? That might be a legitimate criticism.

Given the definition of the word defines my exact issue, yeah Id say so. I may not have had the right word to use but the message I intended to convey is the same.

Authors who present "dry facts" on human events are still presenting the findings through their lens, with biases that come along with them. But, since they are being "dry", the reader gets little to no information on the lens, the biases are hidden.

Im not trying to argue that all bias can be eliminated, but deliberate bias can.

And I think any reputable outlet and journalist should trust their own readers intelligence to critically examine a news report for such biases without help, because:

This piece makes the authors take on the matter bleedingly obvious. I know what she thinks these things mean. That's good for a critical reader.

This is not actually good at all. Its "easier" for a critical reader, but causes more problems than it solves.

The non-critical reader can't tell the difference between opinion and fact, and allowing ourselves to just give into blurring all lines between them is whats contributing to (if not partially causal to) the extreme degradation of public discourse not just in the US but worldwide.

I don't think journalists shouldn't be giving their own opinions on the things they report, but it needs to be segregated and treated differently.

Opinions and entertainment masquerading as news is not a good thing for society, no matter how innocous we may think a particular instance of it is compared to far more egregious examples.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

Are you really this upset?

Not terribly, but for someone who's only been here for a couple weeks, you're making quite the impression. Trotting out tired anti media talking points is a great way to get people to stop talking about what's in this article, and unite in dogpiling on you for trollish behavior. Off to a great start!

 

[Gradine]

Bias is terribly underrated.

 

[Deset Gled]

The focus of criticizing the news source rather than the news is exactly how a company like Wyrmwood gets this far without consequences.

 

[Emberashh]

I think everyone here is in agreement that the revelations are apalling and Wyrmwood management is a bunch of degenerate nepotistic morons.

If theres more to actually say about that Im sure you could just say it and get a conversation going.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Not terribly, but for someone who's only been here for a couple weeks, you're making quite the impression. Trotting out tired anti media talking points is a great way to get people to stop talking about what's in this article, and unite in dogpiling on you for trollish behavior. Off to a great start!

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And yet another poster making it personal. This trend continues, and people are going to start getting threadbooted.

Y’ALL, STOP DOING THIS.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

Very cool and effective to just let someone threadcrap a discussion into the ground while scolding others for pushing back on the threadcrapping.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

That is a fairly damning picture painted of them. I certainly won't be supporting them going forward. So much for the dice tower I picked up from them last Origins. I could totally sand off the logo and re-stain it, but I'd still know where I got the thing.

Talking with my brother about it, he described Wyrmwood as being very reminiscent of the systemic, top-enabled poor behavior at Blizzard.

A majority of time as an editor, I merely hoped to encounter a writer who didn't make me dive into a pail of gin.

I once had to ready an album review for publication that was submitted at the nth hour; it was a compilation album and my band was on it. As a result I ended up being late to band practice fixing all the grammatical and spelling mistakes on a negative review of my own dang band!

 

[darjr]

I have a dice vault and one if the big treys. Nothing I’ve tested sounds quite like their treys with chonky metal dice or my hollow metal dice. Ah well, I will try my hand at removing the logo.