29th May 2007, 11:35 AM
I don't get it, but not because it "skews" to a younger crowd. It's because it is a blatant advertisement and it took a while for me to see through that. It's because every single scrap of news it provided, after the internet exploded with information on games, is old before it hits the first mail box. It's because the way everything is phrased is like everything in EVERY magazine is phrased, this sheltered "I've never heard an opinion outside a magazine in my life so I assume this is the way people actually talk and think" dialog they stick in there that just grates me the wrong way every time I read it. From "top ten most EXTREME platformers" to everything else I just have to wonder how long these media giants can keep the masses fooled into thinking they are being entertained and/or informed before the veil collapses.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)