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Wow. Good article right up until that last paragraph.
"The reader is probably too impressed with the quality of this writing. Let me burn all my personal credibility in a tangent real quick."
It's the RPS curse. It was started back when games journalism was dominated by insipid corporate writeups and they wanted to prove that allowing writers to inject a bit of personality into their work wouldn't do any harm.
The sterile, personality-less writing the RPS founders fought against is mostly dead now and the original RPS staff have long since left, but their successors still try to ape their writing style with a fraction of the wit and talent. They mostly blindly reuse old inside jokes and go off on useless tangents rather than add anything truly clever.
Brutal saying that out loud. But he's absolutely right.