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Message: <blockquote data-quote="w_earle_wheeler" data-source="post: 3499284" data-attributes="member: 35955">In the interest of clarity, I like sardonic movie criticism (I like Ebert's acerbic rants, MST3K, Joe Bob Briggs, etc). I love to laugh at the things that I enjoy. My problem with the Gamer's Rant isn't that's the ranting, or that it's ranting about something (sometimes remotely) related to my hobby. My problem is that the Gamer's Rant is self-centered around the writer and less so about the movie. It screams of PAY ATTENTION TO ME.So, Noah didn't put the cut-along-the-dotted-line on the article? I never assumed he did. But even if the publisher did that without his permission, it still adds a level of annoyance and insecurity to the whole package. If people like it, and the publisher supports it, then they should feel secure about it. Just publish it. I don't mind a (perceived) dud or two in a magazine, because it has to appeal to everyone. And KotDT is a great magazine. I don't read the rants, and I don't like Fuzzy Knights, but I don't mind their inclusion in the magazine. However, whenever someone mentions those two articles, histrionic (some of them) apologists come out of the woodwork to protect them, as if they were under siege. Why do this if they're popular, supported, and not in any danger of being removed from the magazine?While debate is good, I get the feeling that mentioning this to the publisher would just result in a "You don't know what you want" or "If you don't like it, don't read it" response. I could read every Gamer's Rant, make a careful critique on what I think works and doesn't work, present a frickin' thesis on it, print it out of gold leaf paper written in Vectra's blood, and I'd still get the same response: "lol u don't get it lol."That's why I'm not really invested in critiquing/defending the section in any great detail, and that's why any debate about this section always snowballs.</blockquote>

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