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  • Since metacritic is a big automated aggregator, developers don't have the option to simply read something else ...

    Tape Song SVGL 2009

  • Whoever invented metacritic is a genius; it cancels out everyones biases and leaves you with something that usually has most of the insanity surgically removed.

    Tunes For Thought SVGL 2009

  • You yourself utilize metacritic, which is a great means of finding new items.

    Not standing up for the little guy Tripp 2006

  • For it was precisely his conception of reason that allowed him to become the great critic, or "metacritic," of religion, morals, and aesthetics that Berlin recognizes him to be.

    'The Magus of the North' O'Flaherty, James C. 1993

  • Their always thrown into the middle of critics websites, such as metacritic or imdb, with all the foreign, romance, etc. titles that I don’t want to watch.

    The Anti-Oscars (or George Oscar Bluth Sr.) | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Not sure how you took it, but basically I was saying this, because it seems to be a factor that contributes a lot of energy to this topic: executives who base their decisions on metacritic are passing the buck, and putting the developers they serve through something stupid.

    Tape Song SVGL 2009

  • Hell, I wouldn't really argue with the metacritic scores of most games I've worked on except for one, even considering how flawed the system is.

    Tape Song SVGL 2009

  • So I'm not that familiar with metacritic and my complaints can probably be ignored by people who ARE comfortable with the metacritic formula.

    SFFMeta: The MetaCritic for SF/F/H Book Fans 2009

  • Writers like Gass, Barth, Coover, and Barthleme were "working in that rarefied air of metafiction, trying to climb beyond Beckett and Borges, toward things than no critic -- not even a metacritic, if there were such a thing -- can discern."

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • I think on the one hand Leigh's talking most immediately about the issues developers have with criticism of games, which seems to stem from the use of metacritic as a basis for determining where money in the games industry goes, which unfortunately codifies antagonism between game critics and game creators, who both love games.

    Tape Song SVGL 2009

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