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Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return (aftermath.site)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

the only person on the planet that believes influencers as far as I can throw them.

This phrase doesn't work though. Unless you're some body builder type, and can throw them really really far.

But even that doesn't make sense either. Because if you said

"I only trust this guy 18 feet....."

the other person would say

".............18 feet? What? What does THAT mean????"

And you would say "What??? You think you can throw a man 19 feet??? Ok. Go grab him. Go. Go grab that man, and throw him 19 feet. Show me."

At about this time I think they would just call the cops, assuming you have mental problems, and violent tendancies.

Which to be fair.....yeah. You're over here talking about how far you can pick another man up against their will, and how far you can throw them.

Although, how have we never made that an olympic event? You get a bunch of fat guys in a bar, and some body builder muscleheads, and see who wins. If the fat guy can escape, his time to escape is measured. Fastest fat guy gets the medal. Or, if he gets thrown, farthest throw distance wins the medal.

I'd watch that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

That read exactly as a footnote on a Terry Pratchett book, if you have never read Discworld you should, it has the same sense of humor that you do. For example another popular saying being bastardized:

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

So you'd say that the answer to "how far can you throw them" and therefore also to "how much do you trust them" would be.... "not at all?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they’re tiny and can’t throw them and thus can’t believe them.