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# Gaming Headlines: Reality or Asshattery?
- URL: https://www.hashtagsurvival.net/headlines/
- Published: 2024-07-02T12:58:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T17:51:24.000Z
- Description: I love AND hate all things in equal measure.
- Author: Jordan
- Tags: Ponderings, Gaming

Ever had someone close to you - like your mom, spouse, partner, friend, teacher, or even your dog - caution you about overusing words like “love” and “hate”? My wife, Becca, constantly checks me with, “You don’t really hate that!” or “Do you really love that?” But as game reviews (and reviews in general) turn into dumpster fires (looking at you, Amazon), it feels like everything is either LOVED TO THE MOON or HATED WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUNS. Middle ground? DEAD! It’s like no one remembers how to say, “This part was great, but that part sucked.”

I feel like this applies to every recent gaming headline. And then even when it hooks me - nine times out of ten, the article has nothing to do with the title at all. It’s frustrating! *(And it makes me avoid everything they post.)* 

**(Seriously, though - when everyone is INNOVATIVE, UNIQUE, AND REVOLUTIONARY, maybe none of them are?)**

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7b/90/7b901793-9ce9-42df-a98e-002e75d6de84/content/images/2026/09/image-8.png)](https://posts.hashtagsurvival.com/content/images/2024/03/image-1.png?ref=hashtagsurvival.net)

MOST AMAZINGEST NEW ERA REDEFINED BESTEST UNIQUE THING EVER.

The survival tag has turned into a free-for-all and at this point, I half expect *Candy Crush* to rebrand itself as “mobile survival” just to ride the wave. Would we let it slide if it was a pizza joint offering a teriyaki chicken pizza and the local news blasted out “LOCAL PIZZA JOINT REVOLUTIONIZES CHINESE FOOD!!111”

Seriously, people, sit on it and spin. These games would do just fine in the action, adventure, and RPG categories where they belong.  
  
They don’t need to hijack the survival genre’s bandwagon.

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(Quick footnote: this is so amazing.)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7b/90/7b901793-9ce9-42df-a98e-002e75d6de84/content/images/2026/09/image-7.png)](https://posts.hashtagsurvival.com/content/images/2024/03/CleanShot-2024-03-07-at-12.43.58@2x-1.png?ref=hashtagsurvival.net)