{"id":14964,"date":"2012-02-06T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14964"},"modified":"2012-02-06T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:37:09","slug":"game-boss-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14964","title":{"rendered":"Game Boss – Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the suggestion of others, I’ve watched a few episodes of Game Boss. I would say that the previous clip<\/a> did indeed employ editing that bordered on deception. Now, I did caution that we were seeing the results of double-editing, but I should have checked to see how bad it was. Given that my major problem with reality shows is that they manufacture conflict through aggressive editing, I would say that the person who put together the earlier highlight reel is more guilty<\/em> of that crime than IGN. Disgusting. And I am now a rube for passing it along.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear here: This does not excuse the awful things that were said in the show<\/strong>, but it does show that IGN wasn’t nearly as depraved or as cynical as the video led us to believe. This editorializing is a shame, since it pretty much sabotaged the important conversation that could have taken place here about the direction and content of this show. <\/p>\n

I’m not going to sit down and watch all of the available episodes just so we can sort out the nature and the degree of the editorializing done by the YouTube poster. I no longer want to stand with either side of this exchange. A plague on both their houses, and a heaping helping of humiliation to me for swallowing the story as presented. <\/p>\n

In the interest of fairness, here is a full episode of the show so you can judge for yourself. This doesn’t change my opinion of IGN or reality shows, but it does show that Game Boss is not anywhere near the circus of hate and stupidity that it appeared to be.<\/p>\n