If you wanna criticize The Observer's writing, then at least make sure you actually read the stuff he wrote. I'm not surprised that people over at the Fenoxo Forums have such a low opinion of this place. Some of you are too blinded with your hatred, and are at this point making up stuff to be outraged about.
At some point the people who don't like Tobs's content just stopped reading the stuff, I guess.
I'd still much prefer here, even with the unwarranted hate and misinformation and all, if only because it's actually possible to discuss shit here without sycophants and sometimes even the writers breathing down your neck. Ironically, I find the forums to be much more toxic than here. Writers actually bullying people in the one place they have power is just sad, and the culture this results in doubly so. And I doubt anyone really cares about Fen's forums here or vice versa, tbh, but it goes both ways.
People here generally shit on the writers, but there's still quite a lot of people who frequent here who like Tobs and the other polarizing writers. It isn't a monolith.
Over on Fen's forums you can't be
that vocal about your criticism without getting bombarded by people who can't afford for this game to be talked badly about, and it feels much more singular.
If one likes the discussion there more, one can just go there, not like one has to choose. But I don't get the aggression.