• glimse@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I wish they DID trademark it so half the gaming news websites didn’t follow suit

    It feels very…corporate. Forced casual

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      46 minutes ago

      For what it’s worth, this has always been their style (I started reading them in 2010), even before the Eurogamer acquisition in 2017 or so.

      I agree that it does feel more forced now, they a bit more subtle and tasteful back in the day.

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        20 minutes ago

        Yeah, I didn’t have any issues with them until recently when every other outlet started copying it and they seemingly cranked it to 11 in response. They’d work great as taglines but I prefer descriptive titles so I don’t have to “figure out” the topic. Feels antithetical to the purpose of a headline

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      3 hours ago

      I hate it. It’s always stupidly cringe, overly wordy, and just makes me feel dumber for having read it.