Doritos

[Hobie-wan]

I'm pissed that they canned the Salsa Doritos; Those were great.

Hate to sound like someone's mom, but can't you just dip dorritos in salsa?

A bag of chips can also travel without refrigeration. A jar of salsa, less so once opened or if made fresh at home.

[Zing]

I'm pissed that they canned the Salsa Doritos; Those were great.

Hate to sound like someone's mom, but can't you just dip dorritos in salsa?

Would you also suggest that people buy plain tortilla chips and dip them in ranch dressing to mimic "cool ranch" flavour, or cheese to simulate nacho flavour?

That's actually what I do, since I prefer my chips to not have MSG, and Doritos has quite a bit.

[AppleQueso]

I'm pissed that they canned the Salsa Doritos; Those were great.

Hate to sound like someone's mom, but can't you just dip dorritos in salsa?

Would you also suggest that people buy plain tortilla chips and dip them in ranch dressing to mimic "cool ranch" flavour, or cheese to simulate nacho flavour?

That's actually what I do, since I prefer my chips to not have MSG, and Doritos has quite a bit.

You know, nacho cheese doritos dipped in queso is actually quite good...

[Menegrothx]

You know, nacho cheese doritos dipped in queso is actually quite good...

So once you get rid of the disgusting flavor of Nacho cheese Doritos, Nacho cheese Doritos aren't that bad? Makes sense

[Betamax001]

You know, nacho cheese doritos dipped in queso is actually quite good...

So once you get rid of the disgusting flavor of Nacho cheese Doritos, Nacho cheese Doritos aren't that bad? Makes sense

So...just eating Tostitos with nacho cheese?

I think we can all agree on one thing as a community though, and that is Baked Doritos are disgusting.

[Balasubbie]

The only factor I find more depressing than the now infamous image, is the idea that this is the supposed best you can hope for as a journalist who deals in gaming exclusively, or at least, you'd be encouraged to think, lest you fancy finding yourself in want of a decent job.

It's slightly less miserable than the fact that this sort of carry on is unsurprising to the gaming public, almost as though our hobby and interest is somehow less worthy than other pursuits of due course and respect.

[dsheinem]

It's slightly less miserable than the fact that this sort of carry on is unsurprising to the gaming public, almost as though our hobby and interest is somehow less worthy than other pursuits of due course and respect.

Please tell me which other hobbies or interests have "worthy and respectful" journalism associated with them.

[Luke]

Please tell me which other hobbies or interests have "worthy and respectful" journalism associated with them.

Boom.

http://www.extremeironing.com/

[Balasubbie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_(magazine)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Slots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Digest

There, a list of of very much niche hobbies that are afforded are higher standard of journalism than our dear pursuit. Obviously, there's lots of economic factors that disqualify elements of my point, but the fact that game-journalism's seedy underhandedness is greeted with cynicism and expectancy is almost as jading as the actual state of the industry.

The problem, of course, being that a lot of these game sites/magazines do have a far more reaching appeal than the magazines listed above, due to the mainstream nature of gaming, and their word is taken as gospel by a significant portion of their readership. That is dreadful, they can make and kill a product, not on merit, but on benefit.The fact a lot of them have been proven to be in the pockets of the publishers, whose products they are supposed objectively dissect, is entirely troublesome.

I suppose it only matters as much as it means to you.

[dsheinem]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_(magazine)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Slots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Digest

There, a list of of very much niche hobbies that are afforded are higher standard of journalism than our dear pursuit. Obviously, there's lots of economic factors that disqualify elements of my point, but the fact that game-journalism's seedy underhandedness is greeted with cynicism and expectancy is almost as jading as the actual state of the industry.

The problem, of course, being that a lot of these game sites/magazines do have a far more reaching appeal than the magazines listed above, due to the mainstream nature of gaming, and their word is taken as gospel by a significant portion of their readership. That is dreadful, they can make and kill a product, not on merit, but on benefit.The fact a lot of them have been proven to be in the pockets of the publishers, whose products they are supposed objectively dissect, is entirely troublesome.

I suppose it only matters as much as it means to you.

But...the claim of why games journalism has such "seedy underhandedness" (lol!) is because there's a supposed conflict of interest between someone reviewing a game and someone working for a company/receiving stuff from a company/liking a company/etc. I can guarantee you that the field of journalists for any hobby is largely comprised of people who work in/receive stuff from/like the stuff that they are writing about. Gaming isn't somehow immune from this...

And I don't AT ALL buy the claim that "a lot of them have been proven to be in the pockets of the publishers." I'm calling BS on that one unless you can demonstrate otherwise. The story in the OP is NOT an example of this AT ALL.