Manny Calavera
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Since the website is known to be a reliable tech site, aside from this article which you and I both know is your only experience with them, so the tabloid was the only option I was left with when you said "unreliable source" and "Inquierer" in the same sentence. It made sense at the time to give you the credit of thinking maybe you thought TXB was using a tabloid.Zenien said:Wow that shows just how out of it you are if you think I was refering to the tabloid.
They didn't do that. If you read the article (which is in a link in the link I posted, if you can't find it), all they really did was explain what the information provided meant to anyone who may be too dumb to understand it all. They reported the information they were given, cited sources, and recanted once it was proven false. That's as much "credibility" as you could ask for Zenien, and is far more than what you get from larger sites/mags like EGM, Game Informer, or Gamespot, which have done much worse and much less about it afterwards.THeir's a difference between sharing any similar sources, and pulling stories from unreliable websites and including even further condeming acusations that were never even in the original article which was taken down and disproven yet TXB posted it anyway. As per their GPU article.
Yes, again, they are as reliable as Toms Hardware, Beyond3D, AnAndTech, or any other techie site. They screwed up this one time (which, going back to read the original article, was all based on something in OPM anyways), which every site of every type does at least once. That doesn't make them unreliable, no matter how much you think it helps your argument. As for incompitence and bias...no. I'm sure it makes sense too you if you're busy making things up and deciding who's reliable and who isn't completly seperate from track records or facts, but if you step back and look at the reality of the situation for a second, it's pretty obvious that TXB is neither incomptent nor biased. If anything, they behaved like a professional news organization would about the whole thing, simply citing a source and explaining it's meaning if assumed to be true, and telling the readers when it was proven UN-true. That's a lot more than you can say for most gaming "news" organizations, electronic or printed.They were also the last ones to amend the news, and the Inquierer, as in the website, is not reliable, and TXB didn't even bother to confirm the validility of the article before posting it. Defend therm all you want. Their incompitence and bias is right there in that link. There's more to TXB then just making 'mistakes'. Sorry to say.
A few things.You mostly just repeated "you're blind", something about a silver tongue that either meant I have one or don't, not sure, and then stuff about a reliable source not being reliable due to one corrected screw up, which was long, so here's this instead
1) No I'm not
2) Ok
3) Yes, they're reliable
4) There are enough people that know how reliable TXB really is that it doesn't really matter if you want to pretend that they aren't.


If you think someone not thinking that the PS3 is a bad console or that it's worth owning is being under a spell, so be it, it says more about you then it does about me.

