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.

This silliness though that [H]ardOCP is somehow doing something dramatically different than other sites simply isn’t true and it needs to stop. Clearly they haven’t reinvented the wheel when it comes to benchmarking.

To claim that what they’re doing is “real-world” testing and that what other sites is doing is “total BS”, “misleading”, and “worthless” is unfair to all other websites with Core 2 reviews. Especially in light of how narrow the scope of their “real-world” testing was, only 3 CPUs were tested, and multi-GPU performance was never touched.

If this is what hardware journalism has resorted to, we want no part of it.