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IGN writer plagiarizes Dead Cells review - IGN issues impassioned statement on journalistic ethics

Scopa

Scopa

The Tribe Has Spoken
Bryank75 said:


Colin’s video on the incident and aftermath, Boomstick is the first comment.
Absolutely brilliant as usual from Colin.
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I finally got around to watching this. I found this bit interesting. It’s Colin Moriarty commenting about a NintendoLife contributor’s (Chris Scullion) review also being plagiarised by Filip Miucin:

Colin Moriarty said:
I reached out to Mr. Scullion to talk further about the situation, but he declined, citing political differences with me.
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Hey, he’s allowed to say no, but I’m allowed to say: Lol, what an immature manchild this Scullion must be.

And I don’t even like Colin.
 
shira

shira

Member


Woah this guy fucked up

Cartho said:
Well normal rumble is just a motor which spins, creating a vibration. Basically.

HD rumble uses linear actuators, similar to apple's "Taptic engine" which is what they use for the Force Touch stuff in the new iPhones and Apple Watch. I BELIEVE that these are different in that they are more like weighted electro magnets, rather than a simple spinning motor. This means you can create a much, much more subtle variety of sensations compared to a rumble motor which is pretty much just a spinning motor - all they can really do is produce differing speeds of vibration.

I'm not an expert myself but I'm sure others on here can give you more of a technical explanation of how the actuators actually work.
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shira

shira

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Scopa said:
Lol, Filip couldn’t even pronounce “actuators” properly. “”acurators”. Amazing.
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Skyn3t

Skyn3t

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Dude, I was only trying to bring some humour to the discussion. Gawd, I hate IGN and allegro that circus that is gaming media nowadays.
 
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WAR recon zero

Banned
Scopa said:
I finally got around to watching this. I found this bit interesting. It’s Colin Moriarty commenting about a NintendoLife contributor’s (Chris Scullion) review also being plagiarised by Filip Miucin:



Hey, he’s allowed to say no, but I’m allowed to say: Lol, what an immature manchild this Scullion must be.

And I don’t even like Colin.
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Inmature manchild is the way I would describe Colin Moriarty
 
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Petrae

Petrae

Member
Iaterain said:
My hate to IGN never been higher!
I hate this channel and people who work there! Filip Miucin shouldn't be fired!

Calling themselves "journalists", IGN is offending thousands of people who is risking their life in WAR, who is investigating CORRUPTION, POVERTY, VIOLENCE, HUMAN TRAFFIC and DRUG CARTELS. I know so many journalists, brave and full of life, who were killed because of being a professional journalist in 2017. The list is keep growing every day.

What IGN is doing? They are just reviewing digital toys! It isn't "journalism", it is ADVERTISMENT.

IGN is a corrupted channel who takes money to promote and advertise gambling games that designed to lure kids and underage to spend their parent's money.

They are promoting games with microtransactions that is more like a trap for depressive, addictive and vulnerable people. Those games are tricking them to spend their last money to buy a digital furniture and guns.

And these hypocritical people who work in IGN has thrown this young person Filip Miucin under the bus, killed his career, reputation and chances to find a good job only because they wanted to act like a professional journalists which they are not!

They should apologies to a channel from where they have stolen the content and Filip Miucin should be given the second chance to rewrite his stupid review. Nobody should be hurt!

Plagiarism in youtube is absolutely normal, everyone in youtube are stealing content from each other!
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Holy shit. That’s one hell of a screed that you’ve thrown up here. Let’s try to break this blather down.

1. Different “journalists” cover different fields and genres. You don’t have to cover a war to be a journalist. I’d counter that almost nobody who covers video games for a living qualifies as a “journalist”, anyway. Your over the top meltdown over legit journalists being offended by IGN on the whole is fucking foolish and almost instantly dismisses your argument. We get it: You think IGN is in the wrong for firing your friend who stole content from other people and repurposed it as his own. Your theatrics here are cringeworthy to say the least.

2. Video game “journalism” largely is and has been a joke. It’s no secret that video game press is largely an amplifier for public relations. This is true for everyone, from EGM to IGN. If you’re expecting Edward R. Murrow here, you’re going to be disappointed. Thankfully, most people don’t. IGN isn’t any more or less guilty than any other video game press source, whether you think so or not. Again— your bias is showing, and it’s pretty fucking ugly.

3. Again with the claim of throwing your boy “under the bus”? Get the fuck out of here with that. Filip’s own actions placed him squarely under that bus. Nobody at IGN told him to rip off the work of others in order to meet deadlines. The potential plagiarism was pointed out, IGN investigated, and found sufficient cause to terminate him for gross misconduct. Regardless of what you consider to be professionalism, in the press business, you DO NOT STEAL THE WORK OF OTHERS. Plagiarism is a very real thing, and when you do it while working for a salary— as your buddy was doing— you run the risk of losing not only your job, but also your career should you be found out. It doesn’t matter whether you believe that IGN or even if all video game press is bullshit; it matters to IGN how its staff creates and submits work, and there are consequences when that work isn’t genuine. Don’t like it? Don’t sign that contract.

4. Nobody’s apologizing to Filip, and he damned well doesn’t deserve one. The best case scenario for him would’ve been to have disappeared for awhile and then work to rebuild in a different career. While the internet doesn’t forget, it does tend to be easily distracted by other people behaving poorly— but Filip keeps inserting himself into the spotlight, with shitty/insincere/monetized “apology” videos, callouts of other colleagues, and moronic DMCA complaints when the internet puts his shitty “apology” video back up. The guy is a walking poor judgment call.

5. Yeah, you’re going to need some receipts to prove that “everybody plagiarizes” assertion. The burden of proof is on the accuser, champ.
 
Bryank75

Bryank75

Banned
WAR recon zero said:
Inmature manchild is the way I would describe Colin Moriarty
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Really? I thought he showed a lot of decorum through a tumultuous time.... I’d say most people, being honest would say he showed great character. He didn’t cry and blame everyone else, he started again and built up his own little empire. He’s making a small fortune from his talents and experience.
 
Nikana

Nikana

Go Go Neo Rangers!
shira said:


Woah this guy fucked up
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WHat I don't understand is why not just say where you got the info? Like is anybody who watched that video gonna be like, well he got that from a website so im never going to watch his stuff again!
 
Vawn

Vawn

Banned
Nikana said:
WHat I don't understand is why not just say where you got the info? Like is anybody who watched that video gonna be like, well he got that from a website so im never going to watch his stuff again!
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That's not how he works. He doesn't copy facts, he copies ideas and feelings. You can't just cite your source when you're literally copying things like, "I BELIEVE".

As soon as I heard this guy on Nintendo Voice Chat something seemed off about him. He always seemed to be reading off of cue cards while the rest of the cast was having normal conversations. He barely ever acknowledged what anyone was saying outside of fake, awkward laughs occassionally, before transitioning to the next segment.

I honestly don't think he knows how to communicate or formulate his own thoughts.
 
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PedroPanache

Member
Vawn said:
That's not how he works. He doesn't copy facts, he copies ideas and feelings. You can't just cite your source when you're literally copying things like, "I BELIEVE".

As soon as I heard this guy on Nintendo Voice Chat something seemed off about him. He always seemed to be reading off of cue cards while the rest of the cast was having normal conversations. He barely ever acknowledged what anyone was saying outside of fake, awkward laughs occassionally, before transitioning to the next segment.

I honestly don't think he knows how to communicate or formulate his own thoughts.
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OK, I can see what's gone wrong here. Sometimes we send these guys out with the default factory settings, but if you remove Filip's back.....

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Once on the right setting, your IGN review-bot will be able to experience the full range of human thought and emotions. Allowing him to create content using his own thoughts and words.
 
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PedroPanache

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Wow. I, mean, I never expected the Dead Cells review to be the first instance of plagiarism, but it's the banality of it that fascinates me. Like Schreier, I have an intense curiousity about this whole bizarre episode, and I would only truly be satisfied with a journalist cracking open the head of poor old Filip and inspecting the goo inside. I mean, he was so devoid of an original thought, that he cribbed a post from NeoGaf and just spat it out verbatim. It intrigues me, I must know the truth.
 
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Ban Puncher

Ban Puncher

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"Except that one time I was caught being a thief, prove that I was a thief at any other time" says confirmed thief before being shown a gorillion more examples of their thievery.


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mariosbrother

Member
PedroPanache said:
Wow. I, mean, I never expected the Dead Cells review to be the first instance of plagiarism, but it's the banality of it that fascinates me. Like Schreier, I have an intense curiousity about this whole bizarre episode, and I would only truly be satisfied with a journalist cracking open the head of poor old Filip and inspecting the goo inside. I mean, he was so devoid of an original thought, that he cribbed a post from NeoGaf and just spat it out verbatim. It intrigues me, I must know the truth.
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NeoGaf is the truth.
 
DragoonKain

DragoonKain

Neighbours from Hell
Seems to me this is just a lazy dude who thought he could fake his way through the industry as far as it would take him. He continued to have it go unnoticed so I guess he figured what the hell, it beats doing actual real work myself, I’ll just lift it from various sources. This is the weirdest story ever lol. Why he would steal a message board post for a video describing how Switch accessories work is the most random thing. He could have just googled it. Maybe he gets a thrill out of seeing how far he could go without being discovered.

I find this story amusing actually, I wanna see the next random thing that gets uncovered. 😂😂😂
 
Iaterain

Iaterain

Member
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A young person - Filip Muicin has committed a harmless crime.
His misdeed was so controversial that it is equal to stealing trivial video game notes.

The youtubers has overcomplicated this minor and harmless wrongdoing to the point of absurdity. The "clickbait Gods" were escalating the situation by talking about seriousness of his guilt, morality and journalism ethics.

What Filip Miucin did was wrong and stupid.
But he shouldn't be fired for being wrong and stupid.

I believe that some people SHOULD have the second chances.
If he had a chance to sincerely apologise as part of IGN team and rewrite his review,
this young person would save his reputation, job and dignity.
All harm could be avoided but instead we have the ugliest situation ever.

IGN team has thrown him under the bus, the youtubers are stigmatising him, suggestible and toxic society is dragging his name through the mud so he wouldn't be able to find another job.

I can only imagine how frightened and insecure this person is feeling last weeks.
Be brave and best wishes.

p.s. Filip, if you are reading this comment, you can plagiarise it, I don't mind!
 
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WAR recon zero

Banned
Iaterain said:
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A young person - Filip Muicin has committed a harmless crime.
His misdeed was so controversial that it is equal to stealing trivial video game notes.

The youtubers has overcomplicated this minor and harmless wrongdoing to the point of absurdity. The "clickbait Gods" were escalating the situation by talking about seriousness of his guilt, morality and journalism ethics.

What Filip Miucin did was wrong and stupid.
But he shouldn't be fired for being wrong and stupid.

I believe that some people SHOULD have the second chances.
If he had a chance to sincerely apologise as part of IGN team and rewrite his review,
this young person would save his reputation, job and dignity.
All harm could be avoided but instead we have the ugliest situation ever.

IGN team has thrown him under the bus, the youtubers are stigmatising him, suggestible and toxic society is dragging his name through the mud so he wouldn't be able to find another job.

I can only imagine how frightened and insecure this person is feeling last weeks.
Be brave and best wishes.

p.s. Filip, if you are reading this comment, you can plagiarise it, I don't mind!
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Well, no. Some things are zero tolerance. Boomstick Gaming lives of the views and clicks of youtube, and having someone steal that is practically messing with his money.
 
Iaterain

Iaterain

Member
+ to what I've said above...
The reaction of youtubers and social media reminded me this episode from Game of Thrones.
Shame, Shame, Shame.

 
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hollowcupra

Member
Iaterain said:
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A young person - Filip Muicin has committed a harmless crime.
His misdeed was so controversial that it is equal to stealing trivial video game notes.

The youtubers has overcomplicated this minor and harmless wrongdoing to the point of absurdity. The "clickbait Gods" were escalating the situation by talking about seriousness of his guilt, morality and journalism ethics.

What Filip Miucin did was wrong and stupid.
But he shouldn't be fired for being wrong and stupid.

I believe that some people SHOULD have the second chances.
If he had a chance to sincerely apologise as part of IGN team and rewrite his review,
this young person would save his reputation, job and dignity.
All harm could be avoided but instead we have the ugliest situation ever.

IGN team has thrown him under the bus, the youtubers are stigmatising him, suggestible and toxic society is dragging his name through the mud so he wouldn't be able to find another job.

I can only imagine how frightened and insecure this person is feeling last weeks.
Be brave and best wishes.

p.s. Filip, if you are reading this comment, you can plagiarise it, I don't mind!
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I agree up to a point but he had his chance when he made that apology video and didn't apologise for anything. In the contrary he avoided any accusation and challenged the internet to find more of his wrongdoings.

In the end he got what he deserved. And don't forget, he is not a kid. He is well over his 30's, so i suppose at some point we must be hold accountable for our choises.

His choises probaply left more capable people out of the bussiness and he also gained fame by using other's people work. If he was stealing actual products he would be in jail right now.
 
DeepEnigma

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
Scopa said:
I finally got around to watching this. I found this bit interesting. It’s Colin Moriarty commenting about a NintendoLife contributor’s (Chris Scullion) review also being plagiarised by Filip Miucin:



Hey, he’s allowed to say no, but I’m allowed to say: Lol, what an immature manchild this Scullion must be.

And I don’t even like Colin.
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Must. Inject. Politics. Into every facet of life, even where there is none.

What a petty coward, lol.
 
ILLtown

ILLtown

Member
I also believe that people deserve second chances, but they have to be earned. If you accuse someone of doing something that they clearly did, but they just double-down, never taking responsibility or offering up a proper apology, what can you do? If you give someone like that a second chance you're a fool IMO.

Along with that, you can also question whether a person deserved a certain position in the first place, especially when other accusations of plagiarism have come to light.

Also, I don't think anyone believes that he was so naive that he thought plagiarism was OK and that it couldn't lead to him losing his job. He knew. He took a gamble and lost and that's totally on him.
 
Z

ZeoVGM

Banned
Bryank75 said:
Really? I thought he showed a lot of decorum through a tumultuous time.... I’d say most people, being honest would say he showed great character. He didn’t cry and blame everyone else, he started again and built up his own little empire. He’s making a small fortune from his talents and experience.
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He's also a racist. So there's that too.
 
decisions

decisions

Member
ZeoVGM said:
He's also a racist. So there's that too.
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I think your brain is having a ResetERROR with this baseless accusation.

Anyways, I think that it's good IGN is taking all of this guy's stuff down now. However...they really should've never hired him in the first place and his writing was so bad that I have no idea how no one ever scrutinized his process and thought it was good enough to be on the site. I guess that's why I stopped reading IGN a few years ago.
 
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WAR recon zero

Banned
decisions said:
I think your brain is having a ResetERROR with this baseless accusation.

Anyways, I think that it's good IGN is taking all of this guy's stuff down now. However...they really should've never hired him in the first place and his writing was so bad that I have no idea how no one ever scrutinized his process and thought it was good enough to be on the site. I guess that's why I stopped reading IGN a few years ago.
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There is zero critical analysis on both REE and GAF the way I am seeing it lately...
 
decisions

decisions

Member
WAR recon zero said:
There is zero critical analysis on both REE and GAF the way I am seeing it lately...
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I feel that this place can come back. When I lurk it's mostly because I see a lot of low effort posts and don't feel like there's much discussion to be had. But here and there I find that there's a good number of good posters left lurking just like I am most of the time...

ERA is just doomed by it's politics. On the surface it seems like a good forum for gaming but although everyone posts with proper punctuation and there are a lot of posts but rarely did I ever read anything enlightening. This is probably because dissenters don't want to risk the stress of getting made out to be a racist because they disagree with a Kotaku article or something.

So, I choose to post here in hopes that the high quality posts will come back as long as a good atmosphere can be sustained. The 2.0 update was great and right now I really feel like the moderation is neutral and fair.
 
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DragoonKain

DragoonKain

Neighbours from Hell
ILLtown said:
I also believe that people deserve second chances, but they have to be earned. If you accuse someone of doing something that they clearly did, but they just double-down, never taking responsibility or offering up a proper apology, what can you do? If you give someone like that a second chance you're a fool IMO.

Along with that, you can also question whether a person deserved a certain position in the first place, especially when other accusations of plagiarism have come to light.

Also, I don't think anyone believes that he was so naive that he thought plagiarism was OK and that it couldn't lead to him losing his job. He knew. He took a gamble and lost and that's totally on him.
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I do too, but I'm beginning to get the sense that there's more to this than him just trying to pull a fast one and getting caught. It wouldn't surprise me if he got some kind of a weird rush or thrill from getting away with not having to work and just doing it. I mean, he's been caught doing it with such obscure and innocuous things now that aren't even really work-related, I think it goes deeper than just doing something shady and getting caught.
 
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Ke0

Member
Yea...he doesn't deserve a second chance. He needs to earn it, and let's face it. Had he never been caught he would have continued to plagiarise. And this isn't even a one off incident lol.
 
Petrae

Petrae

Member
Iaterain said:
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A young person - Filip Muicin has committed a harmless crime.
His misdeed was so controversial that it is equal to stealing trivial video game notes.

The youtubers has overcomplicated this minor and harmless wrongdoing to the point of absurdity. The "clickbait Gods" were escalating the situation by talking about seriousness of his guilt, morality and journalism ethics.

What Filip Miucin did was wrong and stupid.
But he shouldn't be fired for being wrong and stupid.

I believe that some people SHOULD have the second chances.
If he had a chance to sincerely apologise as part of IGN team and rewrite his review,
this young person would save his reputation, job and dignity.
All harm could be avoided but instead we have the ugliest situation ever.

IGN team has thrown him under the bus, the youtubers are stigmatising him, suggestible and toxic society is dragging his name through the mud so he wouldn't be able to find another job.

I can only imagine how frightened and insecure this person is feeling last weeks.
Be brave and best wishes.

p.s. Filip, if you are reading this comment, you can plagiarise it, I don't mind!
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What is your relationship to the plagiarizer? Are you him? Family, perhaps? Close friend? It has to be something, because the way that you keep going to bat for this dude and repeatedly pitching this nonsense about IGN (with no proof to back it up, thus making it bullshit) smacks of some kind of personal relationship.

It’s either that, or you get some kind of weird amusement in embarrassing yourself on a public forum.
 
Nikana

Nikana

Go Go Neo Rangers!
Iaterain said:
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A young person - Filip Muicin has committed a harmless crime.
His misdeed was so controversial that it is equal to stealing trivial video game notes.

The youtubers has overcomplicated this minor and harmless wrongdoing to the point of absurdity. The "clickbait Gods" were escalating the situation by talking about seriousness of his guilt, morality and journalism ethics.

What Filip Miucin did was wrong and stupid.
But he shouldn't be fired for being wrong and stupid.

I believe that some people SHOULD have the second chances.
If he had a chance to sincerely apologise as part of IGN team and rewrite his review,
this young person would save his reputation, job and dignity.
All harm could be avoided but instead we have the ugliest situation ever.

IGN team has thrown him under the bus, the youtubers are stigmatising him, suggestible and toxic society is dragging his name through the mud so he wouldn't be able to find another job.

I can only imagine how frightened and insecure this person is feeling last weeks.
Be brave and best wishes.

p.s. Filip, if you are reading this comment, you can plagiarise it, I don't mind!
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This has to be a joke post right?
 
Lanrutcon

Lanrutcon

Member
Apparently it's wrong to fire people for being unapologetically wrong and stupid?

Guys. I think I just found a way we can improve society.
 
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Mr Hyde

Mr Hyde

Gold Member
This just goes deeper and deeper. Never seen such a bizarre case like this. Boomstick opened up a can of worms there for sure, and it's good that Miucin finally got caught. But I just can't wrap my head around what Miucin was thinking. If you want to be a writer, editor or anything creative actually, don't you wanna put your own stamp on it? If you are a writer you must want to write with your own words, or else I can't understand why you want to be a writer. It's not wrong to take inspiration of others, in the hopes of being better at your craft, but taking shortcuts and copying off others? Almost all the time and in a very lazy way. I really don't understand the mindset of that. Why wouldn't you wanna put out your own original thoughts if you work in such a medium that it requires you to put out your own original thoughts?
 
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