The RPS Feedback Thread

BillButNotBen 2020-12-27 01:46:55 UTC #1551

FYI: The front page of the site is devoid of articles and just showing:
“Not Found
Sorry, but we ain’t got whatever it is you’re looking for.”

Merry Christmas! hug

Rath 2021-01-13 21:02:34 UTC #1552

Just for the record, when RPS posted their review of AC: Valhalla and it caused some controversy, I reported a tweet by some presumably American agitator calling for violence against the RPS team a few days later, back in early November.

Twitter have just now sent me an alert to indicate that they have removed the offending tweet. Took them long enough, but they got there in the end.

Grizzly 2021-01-14 14:55:05 UTC #1553

… Dare I ask what offended people so much about that review?

LTK 2021-01-14 15:09:35 UTC #1554

I believe it was this:

But you know what? For fans of the series it’s really entertaining. It might not set the world on fire, but you can set some virtual bits on fire yourself if you want. I think running towards an abbey with terrible purpose, yelling “KILL CHRIST! AND BURN HIS HOUSE DOWN!”, is the energy a lot of people want right now. I dunno how well that would play in Texas, though.

Grizzly 2021-01-14 15:14:38 UTC #1555

I suppose it didn’t play that well in Texas then hmm… I have to say I haven’t followed the discourse around Valhalla much (Except that excellent article that someone posted in the advent calendar comments), but I’m surprised RPS would get flak for that and not the game itself.

Sarfrin 2021-01-14 18:27:10 UTC #1556

I think there’s a little contingent of alt right gamergater types that lurk around RPS keeping an eye out for things they can complain about. They seem to show up very quickly in the comments of any article that has a vaguely left wing tone.

alms 2021-01-14 22:02:54 UTC #1557

Not surprising, for many years there have been social media meeting points used to organize brigading, bombing, running interference, and so on.

Some are public, others less so.

BillButNotBen 2021-01-14 23:51:30 UTC #1558

I think some people assumed it was Alice’s line, not the game’s.

Plus, I think RPS did tweet out that quote as their twitter review link, so I imagine some on twitter only saw that and didn’t even read the review for context.

BillButNotBen 2021-01-19 23:11:23 UTC #1559

If I try and login and comment I get a message:

Your IP (34.242.*.) has been flagged for potential security violations. Find out more…

The ‘Find out more’ link goes to jetpack dot com.

Weirdly, as far as I can tell, that’s not even close to my actual ip address. It appears to be an amazon aws server in Ireland.
So I wonder if it’s a configuration issue on your end rather than something terrible that I’ve done.

Can everyone else log in to comment?

@Graham

Kiril 2021-01-20 00:28:41 UTC #1560

I can not, same error as you with the same IP

BillButNotBen 2021-01-20 01:49:09 UTC #1561

Some people can clearly comment, as there are a couple of comments on the most recent article. Though I guess they might have already been logged in.

Skalpadda 2021-01-20 07:45:46 UTC #1562

I remain logged in and can comment.

BillButNotBen 2021-01-20 09:48:04 UTC #1563

I’m back on my home PC now and I’m already logged in and so can comment.

It’ll be a while before I’m back on the previous PC and can see if that’s still blocked.