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2 is a couple. 3 is a few

lol cool thnk u.. kinda feel like i walked into a random neighborhood bar on the other side of town lol

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Take it and jump ship to a different gig with management experience on your resume. Fuck your company for treating you like that.

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Weekend Vent Session

I wanted to save this as a potential opinion piece for Monday, but I ultimately decided I wanted to get this down right now, while my thoughts on it are still fresh.

In case you missed it, I've been hanging out tonight, watching some Twitch streams, when Twitter suddenly starts blowing up about The Last Guardian being cancelled. My immediate instinct is to find out who's reporting this and get the story up as quickly as possible, because sadly, game reporting has become Talledega Nights. If you're not first, you're last.

When I saw that the source was IGN, I mistakenly felt like I could assume them to be reliable. I was wrong. And man, did I feel stupid when Sony quickly denied the rumor and started ragging on the whole thing on Twitter.

My immediate instinct then was to update the story with Sony's denial. Then I thought about it further. To keep the story live would be to continue to lend credence to a bs rumor that should never have been printed in the first place. So I pulled the story entirely, refusing to give anymore links to that false story and feeling deeply ashamed of myself for even falling for it in the first place.

This is the kind of thing that makes the gaming media a joke to people. I like to think it isn't hard to get your facts together and check your sources, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Worst yet, as of the time of this writing, their story is still up WITH THE ORIGINAL HEADLINE! That sure is a false story, but it's not going to stop IGN from getting hits off it!

This is why people feel games media is a giant game of who can clickbait the hardest and it's...disheartening. It's really upsetting. And I don't want to be a part of that machine. I got into this because I love games. I got into this because I want to share my enthusiasm for games with the world. But I don't want to engage in anything dishonest. That's why I pulled the front page post as soon as I discovered the falseness of the rumor. I never want to willingly be a part of something that involves knowingly deceiving people. That's not what I'm in this for.

I walked into this job with a sense of integrity and I'm damn sure not about to lose it. I'm also not going to pretend I'm perfect, so I'm going to reiterate once again that I screwed up and I resolve to do better in the future. Because you guys deserve better.

I guess that's the last thing I'll really say about this. I'll go back to playing Hearthstone for the night and remembering why I'm in this business. For love of the game.

Hi everyone, just wanted to say hi and say yes, we sorta spilled the beans accidentally (I blame staymighty) on the upcoming relaunch of Shacknews.

We are planning to show you guys some mockups (we've already shown mods and staff a look at the design we're trying to implement), but one thing we want to do is make sure we're not touching Chatty, mainly because we really want you guys to stay cool and stay chatting and, frankly, we want to then start asking you guys about what you'd like to see from Chatty moving forward.

Unlike with Gamefly, we want to listen to what you guys have to say and put some resources behind it. A couple of quick notes -- GamerhubTV is the video crew and they're merging into the new Shacknews. Everything will be Shacknews moving forward, starting with a relaunch that we're hoping to rollout before E3. And we're going to make sure we take you guys into account as we try new things on the site, including stuff like livestreams.

Anyway, I'm here to help, I'm one of the guys who helped get Shacknews away from Gamefly (no offense) and trying to help rebuild it in a big way. Appreciate everyone's patience and I hope to become a more involved member of the community as we move forward (and as we get this relaunch online!). Thanks guys.