The “translations” on the right of that EULA are so damn cringeworthy. Some marketing Intern felt really proud of themselves that day. 

How is it nepotism though?

No Pokémon Is Inauthentic

I’m sure it could be anything including that when you’ve had a job for over a decade, sometimes you just want to move on to something different. That’s for Darrah. For Hudson I think the baby he started and spearheaded turned out to be basically an industry joke for ‘stupid idea’. I was never really excited about his…

You had me at Florence Pugh.

There’s something exhausting about Jeremy Renner, even when he’s just standing there, but I love Vera Farmiga and Kate Bishop is cool, so I’ll give this thing a whirl.

Now we just need cross-platform party/chat so we’re not forced to use the in-game chats.

The Hailee Steinfeld-Florence Pugh combo for sure has my attention

Looking at those set photos, I can’t believe we as a society let studios try to sell us Jeremy Renner, Action Hero. He looks like he’s in a body swap comedy where he’s playing a nervous 6-year-old on his first day of school.

Vera Farmiga, Florence Pugh *and* Hailee Steinfeld? Yes please! (I’d actually missed that Steinfeld had gone from ‘in talks’ to ‘cast’).

Pugh is less surprising a confirmation just because it’s been talked about for weeks that it just feels like it’s already happened. I do like she’s in it though.

Surprised no one starred this. Nicely highlights the Viking’s transition to a more “civil” lifestyle.

So uh... Yeah, they were capable of nuanced diplomacy to quench their desire for land, riches, and women.

Ugh, the invader mechanic was one that just made me so angry. It was to the point that i’d actively be taken out of the game and into a sort of “game within a game.” I’m generally not going to kill any invaders because i’m bad at the game, so i’d instead make it my mission to waste as much of their time and make their…

Fahey: Unfortunately, I can’t say, because I lost The Last of Us after his first daughter died. I was like “He’s just gonna replace his daughter now? Screw this.”

You mean an industry mostly led by workaholic middle aged men who rarely dedicate enough time to do proper parenting will somehow overrepresent bad fatherhood in a sad yet absolving way in the media they create?

I got this game for free and I loved the opening segment with Ms. Marvel. Then the REAL game took over and it was so boring. Why wouldn’t they have just made a game with real missions and a story to progress through? Instead it’s a fancy loot shooter with a story slapped on after someone at Square realized they needed…

If you ever wondered whether Live Service really is a poisoned term in gaming or is it really just us hardcore players that hate that stuff i.e. surely it means nothing to the general public, then I cant help but think this is a good example.

Should have made sure the game itself looked and played like a AAA game before marketing it as such and asking websites to talk it up.

Yeah, the cause and effect here are probably pretty tangled up. I’ve spent enough time in those circles (or at least adjacent to them) to know that it gets real fucking complicated one shit starts to go off the rails, and our society does not make it easy to pull out of a tailspin.