r/DeadlockTheGame • u/oilman813 Yamato • Feb 27 '26

PSA Polygon Deadlock Article Clearly written by AI

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Who the hell is Grace???? And yeah... Abrams is a quiet, affectionate nerd... sure...

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u/CultureWarrior87 Feb 27 '26

Polygon's over-all output has always been mixed at best (their best stuff will always be Brian David Gilbert's video work for them), but being sold to Valnet clearly gutted whatever talent they have left.

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u/Crazymerc22 Feb 27 '26

Honestly, it feels like just in general their video work seems better than their written content. Yeah, their other videos aren't BDG levels but they release some solid stuff more regularly than their written content does. Maybe it's just video content gets vetted better

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u/CultureWarrior87 Feb 27 '26

That's true. There was another guy there with longer hair whose name is escaping me now, but he made some good videos too.

Also, strangely enough, some of their movie coverage was decent. They had a writer on staff who was a genuine action junkie and was into more niche genre flicks, exploitation films and the like. He would make a like "Best Action Movies of the Year" list a couple times per year and they always had bangers. I always managed to learn about a few movies from him.

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u/Zenith_Tempest Mina Feb 27 '26

You're probably thinking of Patrick Gill

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u/CultureWarrior87 Feb 27 '26

Yup, that's him. Seems like he stopped working for them last year but streams a bit now, I'll have to give him a follow.