Someone recently posted the comment:
uh..I can hardly read your reviews man. Sure, I'm not a literary genius, but...still, I think you should run some sort of program to hook you up with sentances that don't go like this; "For to going of the game, please play to start in the button of being pressed". It's just....bad. That, and the whole Pixel Shading thing aside, I liked it.
so that got me thinking about how I am not professionally trained as a journalist like Evil Ninja and Anna. But I don't consider myself unqualified to write on this site.
I thought it would interesting to open the reviews to reader submissions. If you think you can do a better job than just email it to me and I'll put it up as a guest review if it would be a good fit.
So here is your chance or shut your pie hole.
Just bring it on Roger Ebert!
Jake,
I think your review are well written but not proof read well. Not a huge crime against man kind. This is your site (zine, blog, whatever you want to call it) and I'm sure you write and post it as you think of it and not as if it is a submission or a research paper being turned in for a grade. There are good and bad thing so taking time to proof read and edit your post - cleaned up spelling and grammar, but you also loose the spontanious feel to the writing.
My personal feeling is that this is your site, you can post whatever you damn well please. If someone has a problem with what you say, how you spell or the pixel shading... well they don't have to spend their time here reading.
Sheesh... what the hell is up with my computer... I stopped in the middle of writing this (kids...) and it lost part of what I was writing... The sentence that starts "There are good and bad thing..." should read "There are good and bad things to taking time to proof read and edit your post - cleaned up spelling and grammar, but you also loose the spontanious feel to the writing." as well as an s on review.
Apparently I'm not very good at proof reading either. heh
Jake, you know I wub yew, but that person really does have kind of a point. You have to be fluent in type-o to read your site at all sometimes. I was never an English major either, so I can't say much, but perhaps you should read over your stuff before you post it? 'You gotta think like a Vegan...in multiple dimensions'
If there was a problem with how you review games, no one would read them, which everyone knows is not the case. I don't see "Cyberxion..." posting anything worth his salt. Your reviews (and all posts written on this site, by everyone that starts them) give a fresh spin to things that have had carbon copy viewpoints written on them elsewhere... Not to mention information that I wouldn't have gotten any place else. If someone has a problem without any substance, then they shouldn't have the privilege of enjoying the content of this fine site. Thanks for having it out there for those who appreciate it like myself.
On average, it takes me a week to review a game and forever to write an article.
Speaking of which, I need to start my YuGiOh review...
I am not looking to start a flame war and it is a well know fact that I need to do more proof reading.
Also I do think it would be cool to occasionally get some guest reviews.
By the way pixel shader is a real cutting edge 3d graphics effect.
Vertex Shaders and Pixel Shaders
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20020116/
Bah! Importance of to sentence structuring this person overrated paying attention to! Trained as editor of copying professionally am me, and to spot mistakes. Of. Is to pay for me! And! Errors many are found, overlooked also but will. Am will pressing start to play and juice of drinks-filled robots monkey pail bottom now. Turtles.
Well, I work in a professional capacity proofreading text for video games and their accompanying documentation(which almost never gets fixed, as you have probably noticed) and anyone who read my site knows that I almost never ever proofread it. I really should, but I don't. Partly because I appreciate the irony of it all, but mostly because I am lazy and I've been proofreading all damn day. Plus, as you stated previously, you get what you pay for. I have a weblog which is unprofessional and free, so oh well.
However, If you mean to present this site as a legitimate online magazine (and hope to get free copies of games to review) you should proofread your stuff, or, better yet, have someone else do it. This is a hassle, but it adds a lot to any article's credibility to have good grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. Obviously you know this stuff, it's just that you may type too fast, as I do.
Don't sweat it too much, though, I'm almost finished with Cryptonomicon, and it has more thana few typos in it.
Oops. I rest my case.
Note from Jake: No problem just hit it once and wait for the refresh.
As if it is alive entirely in a tv monitor, website exist in Japan and can do. Behave violently be large in the famous big city Japan one after another!
hehe...Evilninja is funny! ;)
can i make a suggestion? type out your reviews in a word processing program first (whichever one is your preference) and then paste to the entry field and add all the code you need...the word program will catch all the typos and such (though it won't totally fix the grammar, it can help there too) and make them easier to fix...might be helpful when you are writing a review to do it that way...when i type out readings for people, i always use MSWord, this way i avoid silly mistakes and can go back and correct my grammar (which is atrocious, as you can see)...
just a suggestion, but it might help! :)
Evilninja, crack me up, you do.
Forgive me. I don't make it a habit to drink when I'm surfing the net, and that's exactly why. I tend to get a bit verbose and a bit over-opinionated. I also tend to turn into a major class asshole. At any rate, I just stopped in to apologise for whatever the hell it was that I said to offend you, and to letcha know that I won't bother darkening your door with my drunken ramblings ever again.