Media is Dead, Diamonds are Trash, and Kittens Are Overrated!
Day 1,667, 15:09
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by Jon Malcom
Media is Dead
It's been dead for a long time. Gone are the days of a good media story actually achieving good votes and gaining the guy subs.
It's sad just to get you to see my articles I have to buy votes, it's sad when people like Rizon are getting over a thousand votes on some article that back in the day would maybe get a 100-150. I'm sick of this crap.
Why aren't you? I used to be funny because I could match an article with it's seriousness and parody it. How can I be funny when it's so hard to get visibility?
Why aren't you sick of this crap? We have many foreigners who now write but we have lost most of the great writers in America? What happened to Phoenix Quinn or Sir Gulden Draak? Where is Emerick?
Diamonds are Trash
Diamonds represent money. It used to be hard to get ten thousand dollars in this game, not anymore. Now it's easy. If this was the real world you'd have to work hard to get money now days you can simply buy a few companies, kiss some butt, and do some deals and you're rolling in the money.
I remember when one company cost twenty gold to have. I worked from $50 to save $1,000 and twenty gold.
I'm sick of the way money is handled in this game. Aren't you? Maybe we need a president, congress member, or just a concerned citizen to stand up and say we want our old game back.
I have no problem with being rich, I just dislike how you get a free company and how everything is so freakin cheap these days.
Kittens Are Overrated
They are. Like all the stupid pictures that people throw up on their paper it reminds me of just that, a lot of throw up. Put something of meaning, put your favorite band, or a superhero. Why is it always boobs, cats, or Ronald Reagan? Well that last one was for Ajay I suppose.
If it's going to be a woman put someone sexy up there.
-In Memory of Athanaric
It's been dead for a long time. Gone are the days of a good media story actually achieving good votes and gaining the guy subs.
It's sad just to get you to see my articles I have to buy votes, it's sad when people like Rizon are getting over a thousand votes on some article that back in the day would maybe get a 100-150. I'm sick of this crap.
Why aren't you? I used to be funny because I could match an article with it's seriousness and parody it. How can I be funny when it's so hard to get visibility?
Why aren't you sick of this crap? We have many foreigners who now write but we have lost most of the great writers in America? What happened to Phoenix Quinn or Sir Gulden Draak? Where is Emerick?
Diamonds are Trash
Diamonds represent money. It used to be hard to get ten thousand dollars in this game, not anymore. Now it's easy. If this was the real world you'd have to work hard to get money now days you can simply buy a few companies, kiss some butt, and do some deals and you're rolling in the money.
I remember when one company cost twenty gold to have. I worked from $50 to save $1,000 and twenty gold.
I'm sick of the way money is handled in this game. Aren't you? Maybe we need a president, congress member, or just a concerned citizen to stand up and say we want our old game back.
I have no problem with being rich, I just dislike how you get a free company and how everything is so freakin cheap these days.
Kittens Are Overrated
They are. Like all the stupid pictures that people throw up on their paper it reminds me of just that, a lot of throw up. Put something of meaning, put your favorite band, or a superhero. Why is it always boobs, cats, or Ronald Reagan? Well that last one was for Ajay I suppose.
If it's going to be a woman put someone sexy up there.
-In Memory of Athanaric
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Finally loaded my pic.
What? No Kittens?
What? No Kittens? x2
Nah, voted anyway, just to make you happy. ^__^
Thanks for making me happy!
Whoa, I was with you until you started hating on boobs and kittens.
Still voted but srsly man. Boobs rock.
voted
POO-BAH
Anytime, Jon! : *
WO, that red x is really turning me on!!!
I tried to write a good article anyway http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-evolution-of-an-ewarrior-2055910/1/20
Phoenix Quinn still writes. His stuff is terrific! He just doesn't get enough votes that people are aware of it from the home page. But, you are correct, it is all about getting the exposure. That's why people either "chain shout" and hope they are popular enough that the chain shout goes viral or they make use of vote buying through such places as eRepublik Market.
I make it a habit to just hit PQ's newspaper link directly, to see if he has written anything new.
Agree with everything. This is becoming like the Real world, everything is being bought with money. I follow that trend to be honest and even though it brings me some sort of satisfaction, it does not make me eHappy.
And we need some new things around I have a lot of money and I don't know what to do with it.
V S
Admins proudly boasts of their "unique" media module, but in reality it is bloated with almost nothing original. I suppose they won't fix it, hoping to drive writers to advertise on external social media and in doing so, give their awful push-button game more exposure, but of course in reality what happened is players buy/sell votes as if it is somehow ok to ever do that.
Buying votes for an eRep article reveals a fantasy-formation that is destined to cover up a traumatic truth: it is a desperate posthumous attempt to reinstall metaphysics in the inverted form of the primacy of a concrete reality, triply absurd of course, inside a set of pixelated fun-house refractions of the make-believe press of a make-believe world. A true anti-philosophy asserts the Real that escapes the grasp of the metaphysical One. In other words, the e-historical "break" is still to come.
@PQ: ^ Huh?
My fault for being more of a Physical Scientist than a Social Scientist or a Philosopher.
Well..
Alot or should I say some of the older players whine about "OMG, the media is dead". So they dont give a flying hug but really cant get rid of the grasp of being #1. So, they do what they want. Now, Im having the same Problem as you Jon, Many article I am Subbed to, I cant see on my Subscription list. PQ still writes. Emerick is here but not here. Media Module is not necessarily dead but we will never see anything new.
the buying votes/subs is always going to stay the way it is.
ugh, stupid Minuim word count. The new norm is buying votes, sadly but its kind of a smart thing
But here is my Question, Lets say 'man boob' writes a very very good article, buy votes". Is he still considered a Journalist?
Translation: It is posthumous because the eUSA e-media asphyxiated on the USWP-itization of its political culture. Trying to make an article seem important by buying votes for it inverts a concrete reality: it is a fantasy-formation of self-importance, not entirely unlike Kim Jong Il's hairdo. Obviously, this is all absurd. The metaphysical One is the belief that the New World is "new" in any way. Transforming it to benefit real players in the real world remains the task at hand.
A kitten with Ronald Reagans boobs.
Now I want to throw up.
I read what I want. Screw the hijacked Top 5.
Semi-seriously though, I check my subs first then check for new papers then check latest news and then I check Top 5 prepaid drivel.
And like Spooner mentioned above, there are a handful I seek out to see if they've published something I've missed. PQ is on that list.
PQ is on my list, too, and now so are you. Seriously, having come from a small market (eBelgium), I do find the front page a bit overwhelming, but rarely even bother with reading the articles there because there is so little of interest. In general, good writers and good readers will find each other, and those who are in it for boobs and kittens will continue in their own little world, rather like the readers of tabloids in RL.
Needs more Flufferton.
My vote didn't cost u a thing.
how come we can't see some nice topless man, if you put pictures of women why don't you put and some nice guy once in a while, there is some hot men out there ya know