Gaming Journalist™ earning that 4 cents per word
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Gaming journalism is actually miserable. Think about how many games are unplayed in your Steam library. Now imagine you had to write book reports about a random 12 of them daily and act like you know or care what you're talking about.
Back in the day a bunch of nerds (my friends) were inspired to start their own gaming website, because that's just one of those dreams you could have in the 00s. I was included as a contributor just because I wanted to support them but didn't want to put any stake in it.
I did about 3 reviews of games they gave me, games I couldn't have cared less about (one was a Strongbad one I remember) and it was near impossible to get through let alone not sound impossibly generic in writing. Like, I did it but it was very difficult and very very miserable.
Later, I'd spend some time as a ghost writer for WoW lore articles for various websites/blogs to slap some "actual name" from their site over and it was a cake walk. I could crank out thousands of words within 20 minutes because it was something I was passionate about.
So the plight of a games journo is understandable, but they are the retards who made that their job. So it still falls on them to either suck it up or get a new life.
If you DGAF about quality of your work (or are too stupid to tell the difference), then it could be. If you have a sliver of a conscience then no.
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