[BillPratt]

Video games are where the disconnect is very, very noticeable. Scoring of games ran through a stretch a while back, and may still be as bad, where on a scale of 1-5, no matter how bad the game was it never got below 4 because, as Blake pointed out, if you scored a bomb like a bomb, you were removed from the approved critics list. Game over for your career.

This meant for any read to apply any sanity to the scoring you had to hope for a decimal treat the scoring as a rating of 1-10 according to the following formula:

actualRating = (givenRating - 4) * 10

So Shitwaggon Warriors at 4.2 was actually 2 out of 10. And until you realized this, you bought a lot of shitty games because how bad could a 4.2 out of 5 game be? That's like 84%. Almost an A+.

Video game ratings had zero credibility. I don't play much these days, too busy writing porn, so maybe they still have zero credibility. For a while if you name wasn't Siskel or Ebert, your movie rating had zero credibility. You couldn't afford to talk shit about a shitty movie because you were cut off, and when you're grubbing nickles together to feed your family on a writer's salary, you cannot afford that.

If on the other hand, you are reviewing because you love it and have an alternate revenue stream on the side, you can do whatever you want. It's nice.

Personal opinion. I don't read a lot of porn. It does nothing for me. This is precisely why I started writing stuff. Practically no one writes what I want to read. No one makes videos I want to watch. You could give it to me free, and I probably still wouldn't bother reading it.