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In 2020, we should learn from the Great Age of Dumb Hot Takes


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How do you sum up a decade of gaming?  Lists of the “10 Best” (fill in the blank)?  A long, elaborate write-up of the greatest thing you played?  Wistfully recalling how it felt to unbox your favorite piece of tech? I suppose those are all viable.  But when I look back at the past decade, I’m mostly reminded of hot-takes and forum flame-wars, intolerable fandoms and clickbait.  None of this was completely native to the 2010s, true, but from a Nintendo fan’s perspective, you can trace a lot of the poison to one article – a laughable screed that divided a…



   
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