Our reply to an attack on real world testing. Some will have you believe that a canned benchmark or gaming timedemo is a crystal ball into your gaming future. We have jokingly referred to the Firing Squad as the "Firing Squid" for years now. You know, the website that will post pages and pages of canned benchmarks without any analysis at all? Here is an example of them going on for 7 pages without any interpretation for the readers. They do however follow up with a 6 sentence conclusion and an award. Wow, more pages of canned benchmarks than conclusion sentences? No wonder they are threatened by HardOCP showing you what actually happens during real gameplay and describing our experience to you.

Anyway, today they have a nice rant about HardOCP that I encourage you to read. Because as I read it, it became clear to me how many people do not understand our philosophies surrounding real world gameplay evaluation. Here are a couple of sentences that made me realize how misunderstood some of what we do actually is.

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