And that accusation is arguably the least believable one of the bunch...

Diablo 3 was pretty bad at launch. The inability of people to log in coupled with the base game being lackluster led to a lot of complaining. Iirc, people noticed how loot drops were pretty unfair - you rarely got legendary loot and rarely got loot that was for you specific character. I bought most of what my mage…

It’s literally the only thing. The main storyline is spare and poorly done, the side quests are atrocious, and the openish world design of Inquisition is hollow when closely inspected.

Trust me. Inquisition was almost entirely made up of menial side quests.

Trust me. Inquisition was almost entirely made up of menial side quests.

Getting blankets for refugees, grabbing some flower to set on a grave, stopping the Venatori in main areas like the Hissing Wastes don’t sound menial, but in implementation they are.

I don’t disagree, though I think the scene was meant to play as comedic (those two characters iirc were usually played for slight comedy), and it just doesn’t work in the moment. It’s not really idiocy, just inconsistency which is arguably worse.

I am really impressed with you responding to a comment I made ages ago thinking you’re really getting in some genius dig.

The obsession with with the supposed character idiocy in Prometheus is actually a dislike of character inconsistency. Since most of the cast acts inconsistent with what their characters should (based off what the film sets up) be doing, people attribute that to “idiocy.”

I’m the reverse; I like the Frakensteinian idea that David, the creation of humans, creators a species perfectly designed to kill intelligent lifeforms (especially humans).

Not if you buy into the prequels as quasi-religious epics and 8 1/2 with the presentation of a science fiction horror film.

I didn’t even have time to be outraged....

SHALE AS COMPANION OR GTFO

We are definitely going to get the “this is how it’s all connected!!!!!” reveals in da4.

What about Dancer in the Dark? I love that one, and loved Dogville at the time I saw it (but I realize that Dancer can be complicated because of what happened between Bjork and von Trier while Dogville is an extremely difficult watch.

Media also doesn’t exist with definite meaning.

I was talking about what is an absolutely trivial aspect of GG that simply relates to an issue I have with this review. That “event” was comprised of far more important issues and problems than discussions about objectivity in gaming. And anyways, it isn’t even limited to GG; you see claims of objectivity or the lack…

It is used rather narrowly, in this case, or else I’d be engaging in masochism.

The creators are partly to blame for this analysis. They’ve frequently moralized and that’s resulted in people searching for the “meaning” in every episode. I get people instinctively want to understand media/note the patterns/interpret it, all that jazz.

The word “objective” needs to be officially retired. When the whole gamerdipshittery debacle was underway, all you heard from the morons was “critics should strive for objective reviews!!” Then critics and lefty types rightfully pointed out that no one is or should aim to be objective when criticizing media...then a…