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Calling out rumors, insiders and "sources"
- Thread starter .Pennywise
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SilentUser
Member
Fantastic thread, congratulations
.Pennywise
. It is nice to see who is somewhat reliable and who isn't.
.Pennywise
. It is nice to see who is somewhat reliable and who isn't.This Roberto guy is a bonafide clout chaser.This is epic
Why do people even follow him or like these posts with that track record? You'd think after a certain point people would wise up
Draugoth
Gold Member
This Roberto guy is a bonafide clout chaser.
Why do people even follow him or like these posts with that track record? You'd think after a certain point people would wise up
People always said i was wrong when i pointed out he wasnt an insider and just a famous gueser.
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AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
This is epic
It's insane to me that a single person outside of Youtube live comments thought Sony would waste Ragnarok on SGF.
Kokoloko85
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I said the same thing a while back.
Some of our fellow brethren on GAF were sure Keighley would deliver.
MasterCornholio
Member
If anything according to Jason not all hope is lost. So yes I guess we will just keep waiting for the next update.
BusierDonkey
Member
How to game journalism:
- Twitter "personalitiy" (further reffered to as Twit) makes several guesses.
- People that want what Twit said to be true fall over themselves defending Twit.
- People that don't want it to be true fall over themselves denouncing Twit.
- Twit gets clout when the guess is correct. Followers decree Twit to be Nostradamus.
- Twit goes into radio silence when wrong. Followers point out Twit has been correct in the past.
- Don't forget to like a subscribe.
- Twitter "personalitiy" (further reffered to as Twit) makes several guesses.
- People that want what Twit said to be true fall over themselves defending Twit.
- People that don't want it to be true fall over themselves denouncing Twit.
- Twit gets clout when the guess is correct. Followers decree Twit to be Nostradamus.
- Twit goes into radio silence when wrong. Followers point out Twit has been correct in the past.
- Don't forget to like a subscribe.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
The rumor I want most badly to be true are the Bloodborne rumors.
kuncol02
Banned
AFAIR Schreier has 100% clean track record.
Jeff Grubb also has rather good track record. For now he had two things wrong. Prices of new PSPlus (but rest about that was correct) and Goldeneye which wouldn't be first game moved due to world events (Motorstorm Apocalypse). There is also another thing to consider. He sometimes is reporting about things he is not 100% certain, but in that case he clearly states that it's rumor that he cannot confirm (like Square Enix one)
.Pennywise
Banned
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Caffeine
Gold Member
hes always wrong lmao
.Pennywise
Banned
There's also another dude, I don't remember its nick/name. Do you have it? Because I want to add them to the OP.
Caffeine
Gold Member
nate the hate ? hes like hit or miss https://twitter.com/NateTheHate2?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
shit even jeff grub is hit or miss.
.Pennywise
Banned
Nah, found it, colteastwood
He's even more shit because he deletes every tweet he's wrong about
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HeisenbergFX4
Member
TheRedRiders
Member
Yeah seem's like he's still riding off Tom's and Snitch's rumours about the 30th, it's pretty much good guesswork to say we'll get some sort of announcement tomorrow if the the 30th date is true.
MasterCornholio
Member
To be fair it's not like Sony hasn't done that before with a SOP. But I'd argue it's not due to him having any inside information. Like others say he's just building off rumors from more credible leakers.
Pelta88
Member
They use the broken clock strategy. Their MO is to say "Something" is happening once a week. Eventually they'll be right, which is what the simple minded pay attention to...
While forgetting the other 48 weeks of the year where the exact same prediction was posted, which turned out to absolutely false.
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MasterCornholio
Member
It must be really annoying to follow those people on Twitter. Imagine seeing them post the same prediction week after week. It would certainly drive me crazy.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
T-minus 6 hours
****Subject to change (as his "sources" always do)
Interfectum
Member
demigod
Member
Goodbye………….until the next SoP date rumor.
Pelta88
Member
.Pennywise
Banned
Ohh Schreier bites his first 
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Kratos has the Norse world mastered only character I’m excited about.
Is that a fair strike though? Jason technically wasn't wrong with the information he initially reported on. Sony changed plans last minute, possibly to bait the leaker.Ohh Schreier bites his first
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MasterCornholio
Member
Ohh Schreier bites his first
Issue is it’s Tom, Jason and The Snitch. And they all had similar information.
So I’m not sure what happened here but it might be true the date was either fake from Sony or they delayed the announcement.
I wouldn’t write this off as Jason making up info just yet.
Elder Legend
Banned
None of the insiders were wrong lol. They all had same info and Jason never lies and Snitch has a perfect track record. This is Sony's change of mind.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
There is no proof that Sony changed plans last minute though.
ManaByte
Banned
Reminds me when Disney released the Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame trailers in the same week. It leaked earlier that one would come out on Monday and the other on Wednesday. But then George H.W. Bush died and they had the national day of mourning on that Wednesday and Disney, not wanting to look bad promoting an Avengers movie during a national funeral, pushed it to Thursday. 24 hours. But that didn't stop the Twitter psychopaths and Reddit shitheads from screaming for blood over a 24 hour delay for the trailer.
.Pennywise
Banned
Lol why would I give Jason a special treatment?
He called a date, he put the rumor up. Rumor turned out to not be true, and that's an for me.
Just to remind you, we've had nothing official from Sony regarding news late June, it was Jason who put that date up and all followed suit.
He started acting like an official Sony community manager this month quicky running after GoW delays rumors.
Sorry to show the truth, but not even the most trusted "insiders" aren't 100% accurate and to be trusted. This is exactly the point of this thread.
He called a date, he put the rumor up. Rumor turned out to not be true, and that's an
for me.Just to remind you, we've had nothing official from Sony regarding news late June, it was Jason who put that date up and all followed suit.
He started acting like an official Sony community manager this month quicky running after GoW delays rumors.
Sorry to show the truth, but not even the most trusted "insiders" aren't 100% accurate and to be trusted. This is exactly the point of this thread.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Oh great exactly what they need....
I don't know for certain. Going by what was being corroborated it seem that there was a change, unless they are all just making it up. Either the source for the GOWR rumor was either intentionally misleading them or the info that source obtained was no longer applicable.
Tbf I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't pissed off when Sony delayed the PS5 unveiling back in 2020 due to BLM's bullshit lol
I don't think anyone is asking for special treatment, that would obviously defeat the purpose of your thread if that were the case.He called a date, he put the rumor up. Rumor turned out to not be true, and that's an
Just seem misplaced here is all I'm saying since he didn't give out false info if things changed from what was initially planned.
It's not that serious, I just wouldn't put that in the same category as being straight-up wrong from the get-go. Since this is tracking the person's credibility or lack thereof.
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.Pennywise
Banned
God of War Ragnarok release date announcement late in June.
June goes by, no release date.
How's that not false?
MasterCornholio
Member
How do you know he’s making up the information?
He’s been right about Sony stuff before so he probably has sources.
.Pennywise
Banned
LOL
I'm not the one claiming insider info fella. That's to say, how do you know he's NOT making up info?
Can you corroborate there were official plans by Sony?
Official being the key word here, not something coming from insiders mouth. I'll gladly wait.
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MasterCornholio
Member
I highly doubt he made up everything and got lucky a few times. He must have some sort of source to have gotten those things correct in the past. He’s no Serrano and the same can be said about other insiders like Tom for example.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Some serious cognitive dissonance and lack of reading comprehension going on here.
.Pennywise
Banned
Do you think I believe all he speaks is being made up just because one of his rumors turned out to not be true?
Please point out where do I say he's making stuff up, or that he suddently becomes not reliable at all?. I'm just trying to corroborate how accurate these people are. He just missed this one. I won't give them a free pass just because they backpedal on their initial statements (Just like I did with Grubb and his GoldenEye rumor).
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saintjules
Gold Member
End of an era /s
It would be better to have more of a foundation for rumors before trying to throw shit on a wall expecting it to stick.. Or better yet, not ride the coat tails of others for clout.
He knows he struck out one too many times. That's the real reason he's 'disappearing'.
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Hey, it's your thread, man. I think he deserves a more reasonable asterisk penalty than saying he is "backpedaling" if the info was accurate right up until recently, that's all.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
In fairness we don't actually know what Sony's intent was just what these guys said