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Montage of Next-Gen Games Travels

Submitted by Nick on November 14, 2006 – 10:14 pm18 Comments

I just saw the image below accompanying an article on Joystiq.

I thought that it looked familiar, and then recalled where I had seen it before:

Hmmm.

James

Wow, that’s messed up.
Travis

Ouch. I wouldn’t be so bad if you were given photo credit…or asked permission to use the photo. Blast ‘em an e-mail, cursing their mother! Or just ask for credit. Whichever you like best.
Leonaken

…so? They posted a bland image to accompany the pretty text. It happened to be a montage of new and upcoming games, which is what the article referred to. And they cropped it.

Is there a point to this posting?
http://nick.onetwenty.org Nick

Leonaken: Bland *by design* if you remember the original article!

Mostly, I was just fairly surprised. I think it’s common courtesy to cite your image sources and to not crop away logos.
SP420

Yeah, make sure you let them know about that. One would hope they just forgot to cite it…
Mac

THIS MEANS WAR, or at least an e-mail notifying them of the err of their ways…
http://nick.onetwenty.org Nick

I’m pretty sure that they know about it given that the same author covered the original story (“The Colour of Next-Gen Gaming”).
Subnet6

Yeah, theres a point to this post.

It demonstrates the jerknitude of joystiq for not only stealing an image, but hacking it to avoid attributing it properly.

You should always attribute an image if you know the author and if they thing has a watermark, WHICH IT DID, then they certainly know the author.

Chopping off a watermark is bad form period.

I would post on joystiq about it if all my accounts weren’t banned over there for letting Vlad know what a talentless hack he is.
http://nick.onetwenty.org Nick

“I would post on joystiq about it if all my accounts weren’t banned over there for letting Vlad know what a talentless hack he is.”

LOL! Oh man, you just made my day!
Subnet6

Yeah, well, I made a new account so I could post.
They can suck it.
http://www.infendo.com Jack

I am also banned from Joystiq commenting. Re: Vlad being a typical bag of douche.

In any case, this sucks.
Subnet6

Hey Jack,

The post in question was done by Blake. You should give him a little “tsk tsk” on this one.

Also, speaking of Blake, what is up with that dude?

I read infendo a lot (love your posts by the way)
and Blake is great. He’s great on the podcasts too, but on Joystiq, his posting is COMPLETELY different.

If I didn’t know better, I would think he is pressured to tone down his fondness for Nintendo to the point of sounding negative.

Or is it just me?
11440

Joystiq and Kotaku are the worst things to happen to the online video game community since Daily Radar.
Mac

w00t, you guys are now cited, congrads. good job subnet6 and eliza
Mark

11440: Awww poor baby! Did your comments not get used in the weekly comment round up? Or do you just not like the fact that you aren’t as successful as them?

*hands you a bottle* There we go, isn’t warm milk nice?
11440

I can’t say I’m surprised that someone in the Joystiq/Kotaku target demographic would resort to toothless and moronic jibes befitting a high school cafeteria.
…

Man, wasn’t that like the second time you guy’s have been bitch-slapped like that? How come the big dogs always wanna step on Aeropause?
http://nick.onetwenty.org Nick

Subnet6, Eliza: Thanks!

…: Yeah, last time was G4TV (I think?) with one of our video tutorials. I think people are under pressure to pump out a certain amount of content, and it makes them less conscientious.