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I have purchased a fair amount from Humble bundle, and have been a subscriber to the humble monthly bundle since it's inception. Suffice it to say, I have a great appreciation and admiration for the way Humble Bundle works (worked?).

Meanwhile, IGN has been around a lot longer, and has earned a terrible reputation for selling reviews and generally being shameless. I lost all respect for IGN long ago, and I absolutely refuse to contribute to it in any way, so I've cancelled my humble bundle monthly subscription.

Is there a name for the feeling you feel when you're watching a movie and the bad guy wins? That's what I feel now.

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> has earned a terrible reputation for selling reviews

IGN editorial is separated from the rest of the company like just about every other media outlet and those extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. One or two anonymous allegations does not a "reputation" make. When someone puts their name to it and brings evidence to back it up, we'll talk. As-is, this is just a meme among the angrier gamer community.

(n.b.: I don't read IGN or care about the company, but I do care about mendacity a little bit.)

Its got the reputation, calling that reputation a meme is you going out of your way to use a term other than reputation. Whether or not its true is a separate thing.

I think that you failed to pick up what I was putting down, and that is that the important bit of that sentence is not meme, but rather the angrier gamer community--the side of the community that is so very worried about ethics in games journalism except only when women or black people are involved and who are so very mad at Bethesda for making a game about shooting Nazis--who are the source of that meme.

It is not credible and it should be roundly shot through when it pops up because of that incredibility.

also been subbed since first monthly and will be cancelling. Humble Bundle had earned plenty of good faith from me where IGN has none.

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