Who here has taken the time to visit the new site that Birdman is a part of, I've been visiting daily and I think its a fantastic website with some pretty interesting articles and great reviews from its editors and community memebers

The forums seem to be a bit basic for now but their working to get them moving a bit more but otherwise the sites doing pretty well early on and I was curious to see if anyone else here has checked it out

a good article I've read on there is this

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2010/11/ ... s-of-2011/

L.A Noire is looking really awesome and theres a link to the debut trailer on the website as well!

we should start getting more people on here to spread the word that is the awesomeness of blistered thumbs!

(but the gameheroes will always be #1 !!)

I'm there! It's a cool site, but lackluster in community interaction. At least, if you compare it to what they were promising.

Needs a blogging section. I don't want to change my review style to submit there, at least not yet. Being able to post my other reviews would be nice, but right now it's way too restricting. Interested to see what the next site version will change already.

I believe right now their preparing to overhaul or at least address the issues that are plaguing the forums their, there relatively barren right now, but the sites only been around for half a month so I wouldn't expect them to be taking off straight away,

I do like the idea of blogging, I'd love to start my own regarding my day to day gaming and if Blistered Thumbs were to offer that ability I'd love to get one started

Forums are horrid. Why is that always the last thing websites consider? I mean that is the main way your community interacts, at the very least get that working right.

I tried really hard to give the place a chance, and I really, really wanted to work for them. But it seems as if they're not interested in fixing things or improving what they have. It's all about being popular and awesome there. I really don't agree with the people blatantly trolling the writers there, but I will agree that they're talking about curving gaming journalism and all this, and I'm pointing out grammatical errors for them. It really doesn't work too well when your site layout looks far too much like Gamespot, and it seems popularity again holds sway over integrity.

Now for the positive: Joe is the most patriotic guy on the planet when it comes to BT. I love his enthusiasm and spokesmanship. There are a lot of guys who really, seriously care about bringing good reviews, good discussion, and interesting news to the table over "here's a video about old NES stuff that you didn't know." I think that the discussions, news, etc. should hold sway over the entertainment, and there are plenty of guys who are ready and willing to make that happen.

I'm still hoping for the place. C'mon, guys.

Indeed, the place has been out for a while now and they're not exactly fixing anything or doing what they told us they were going to do. I'm still hoping they're going to turn it around, but come on.

The Magic: The Gathering review really pissed me off. "Let's not talk about the lack of deck building, how the CPU randomly does bad plays, how the CPU often times uses the entire timer to make plays, the crap shuffle system, and other legit issues. I'm going to complain about what annoys me - things that could be avoided if I'd play the game and pay attention."

This is a review now? THIS is a REVIEW? Angry fucking Joe did better than this, so I have no idea why it was bothered with again.

Did seem a lot like an "I suck at the game, so The game is bad" type of review.

Seems to be the stance of a good number of reviewers. Who have an Inability to look at a game objectively just because they found it 'Hard.'

But finding a line between a game being hard due to a player's inability to play it well and the fact that it was designed terribly and the mechanics of it make it difficult is a rough one.

This is why I'll never review rhythm games, I'm not good enough to judge them on their merits and faults. I'll certainly play them for fun, but I don't have the know how to do a proper review.

To be fair, a few of those things were actually mentioned in the review. Keep in mind that Blistered Thumbs is a VERY new site. It hasn't even been live for a month. I know it isn't quite living up to expectations yet but I'm sure things will improve over time. I'll admit though, that Magic review definitely could have used some work.

They do, however, more than anything need an editor to read all of the articles. There are way too many misspellings, grammatical errors, and goofy wordings going on over there. I don't mean to talk bad about an affiliate but they desperately need someone to make sure these are professional quality articles. Otherwise it's just all bush league. Hell, I'd do it for them.

The site is definitely in it's infancy. Nothing like navigating the pages and everything being out of alignment. The comments secion is ugly as ballz, and the frames seem to overlap a lot.

Bugs that will surely be worked out. Yes, I've tried it in different browsers. Even then, if that were the issue, that's just silly.

I'm all about the concept of this site, the content just needs work.

That's one of the things that gets me so fired up. I know they've been around X days, but lots of talented folks have offered to help with this issue. I have, and some other guys on the freelance circuit have too. All we hear is that's an idea to consider...ya think?

It looks like they took the review down now. I feel like a complete jerk for doing that to someone, but it really insults me to be kept at an "amateur" level when that is considered "professional." Never have I done that. I scrapped entire ideas when I realized that I didn't have a good enough grasp of what was going on. Best of luck to the writer, but I really, really want to see him put more focus in and make something awesome that I'd love to share with others. I've seen his name on there before; I know he can.

That probably killed what chance I had of being on BT, but so be it. Integrity, man. I'm just hoping that wonderful guys like Micah keep rockin' out and raising the bar.

I'm kinda bugged that us at TPS are sometimes more professional then they are.

This bugs me because we have a small following for being the peanut gallery of the internet.

It takes a lot of mess ups to look a bit worse than us. Still, I hope they get better over time.

One thing I noticed is some video mess ups. Sage's Black Ops review was embedded wrong, leading to a fan fic theater episode instead.

One thing they really need is to give everyone a sense of expertise. It just seems like a bunch of nameless people sometimes in written reviews, so they need to make it easier to understand what each writer does best in and knows most on. They also need to let them work with their strengths more than having someone who doesn't know how to play Magic well do a Magic review.

I'm sorry, What's TPS?

Being brutally honest here, Darkseid, but a site that has a blank page with a forum link and "NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!" isn't really more pro than they are. I don't think the material is either, truthfully. It's got a lot of heart and soul, but I don't think it's gone that far yet.

BT has its kinks that's holding it back. I've noticed that they respond best to brutal honesty that isn't trolling. Give that to them.

Not gonna argue, but we've been planning once Bobo finishes the thing. I actually suggested the headers we started using at SA on our back up blog there till that hacking event.

I've been thinking on this for us as well, trying too see what everyone should specialize in, like how Red and RPG handle fighters, Gregie is gonna have a cartoon show and how I'm pretty much the resident anime and JRPG fan.

It's something they should work on as well. One problem I have with "professional" sites like IGN is that you end up blaming the site when you see a review you don't agree with because it's hard to get a feel for each writer when there's nothing there to make you go "Oh, I know him."

BT needs to work a bit on that.

It's a site that I run and Darkseid, Puddle Jumper, and a bunch of other semi-familiar faces contribute to.