The term "biased" gets thrown around a lot by online gamers, many of them indignant when their own biased opinions are not catered to. It's become a very trendy word to use, but the people who use it don't often think about what goes into the word.

Fact is, Destructoid has been called biased many times, most recently in the n4g thread that BS3 Owner linked to. A few commenters claimed we had no place to mock Gamespot because we're the "most biased site on the Internet."

Well, first and foremost, I'm going to meet you halfway -- yeah, we're biased.

We're an editorial blog, where the draw is less on the news and more on the views. People come here to read what the editors that they know and love have to say more than what they're saying it about. You can go to any old site for the news, but Destructoid is the only place where you get to see what Nick, Dale, Nex, etc. have to say about the news. And yes, we're biased -- we're human beings, fool!

Everybody alive has preferences and dislikes, and frankly, if you believe that any Web site can be 100% unbiased, you're deluding yourself. But, that doesn't mean we're dishonest. If you want a Web site of honest opinions, then you have to prepare yourself to read things you're not going to like. So what if some of us think the Xbox 360 is better than the PS3? It's an honest opinion, so get over it. If we give a game a bad review, it's because we're writing with the kind of brutal honesty that YOU, the reader, claim you want.

Yeah, my favorite console of the current-gen three is the Xbox 360, I admit it fully -- but some people need to learn that life isn't black-and-white. Just because I prefer something, doesn't mean I'm a liar. I gave Mass Effect, a 360 exclusive, a 4.0 and I stick by it. And was that review, in and of itself, biased as well? Of course -- it was my opinion.

It strikes me as hypocritical that people with one side of the mouth claim they want honesty in writing, and with the other insult writers when their honesty smacks them with a truth they didn't want to read. It also makes me sad when Call of Duty gets an 8.0 and people start trashing Destructoid as a site for it, and accusing Nex, of all people, of being a Halo fanboy.

Grow up, and work out what you want. Either you want honesty, or you want to be pandered to. And try and learn that bias, on its own, is not a bad thing.

It is, in truth, the only way one can truly write with honesty.