Look, for every Robert DeNiro, there's a Keanu Reeves, but don't act like it's easy to be a professional actor just because you can out-act Keanu. AND, don't act like Keanu isn't a pro himself just because he isn't very good.This is also true.
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Look, for every Robert DeNiro, there's a Keanu Reeves, but don't act like it's easy to be a professional actor just because you can out-act Keanu. AND, don't act like Keanu isn't a pro himself just because he isn't very good.This is also true.
I can tell you've never seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
exactly, you don't have to be sir laurence olivier to be a professional actor
anyway we are arguing over semantics, i'm done
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Let's not kid ourselves here. Writing about videogames is every slacker/undergrown adult/kid's dream. But just b/c lots of ppl want to do it doesn't mean it's a profession.
Neither is it a joke job. Guys who can write well and get paid are truly hard to come by and should be accorded the respect they deserve.
Part of me will always snicker at the "professionals" that get paid to write (many times, poorly, imo) about videogames. But we shouldn't impugn their livelihood.
If writing in the industry is what you want to do, more power to you. Not all of us can be x-ray HR bean-counters for GE (or whatever Biff does).
The problem with being an industry writer is that every kid with a B in Junior English and a Zboz thinks he can do your job...and will, for free.
I have friends who are (true) professionals in the newsrag industry who have legit journalist training/exp and have a hard time keeping their jobs. What will videogame writers do when their competition is even more voracious?
A profession is something that pays the bills. It's something which is more than a part-time job. This is all. Someone who does my job for free is not doing my job.
The fear is that the more Blogs start coming out. The more NORMAL journalism will fade.
There was a news article about it in Philly.
This is exactly right. You know why? Because "trained," "legitimate" journalists are being outpaced by assholes on the internet.
Don't give me that bullshit about how just because you write for a newspaper you're "legit" and videogame shit isn't. There are a lot of hacks and a lot of talented people on both sides of the fence. I guarantee you I fact check better than half the assholes at the Post. I see fuck ups in mainstream journalism on a daily basis. Half the newspapers out there write shitty one-sentence paragraphs and are no better at expressing themselves than the average IGN writer. They deal with the same shit we do. This is EXACTLY why the mainstream media is being nipped at by amateurs. Degrees don't mean shit, it's what you can do.
I understand the arguments that newsrag journalism is more important and all that, and it is, and I respect that if that's what you want to do. I write about games because I'm selfish. It's what I know more about than anything else, and it's what I know I can do better than most other people. But it's just subject matter.