I once worked with someone who assumed everyone else was bad at their job and treated them as such. The sort of person who would explain things to an expert. Of course, 95% of the time, he was incorrect but whenever he would encounter that one person who screwed something up, he would hold them up as proof that he was…

It is SO BIZARRE how strongly you feel about this. Truly, find something else to be passionate about. 

ETA, nevermind, you already answered my question. 

White people like Dave Chapelle because he gave them cover to laugh at jokes about black people. He was always the sort of comedian that bigots flocked to because he let them feel good shitting on marginalized groups. 

At what point though do offensive things followed by “just joking” stop being excused? “Just joking” doesn’t mean that what he’s saying isn’t harmful or offensive. It just means he thinks he can get away with it with a disclaimer.

I’m not sure that Netflix should be forced to remove the special, but Dave and the…

The NPC women who are slaughtered in the game, like the men who are slaughtered, pose a danger to Ellie. They attack her directly. There’s explicitly a scene where she tries to spare the life of the woman playing a vita and the woman pulls a knife. There’s certainly ludonarrative dissonance in many videogames,…

Been curious to try this, definitely will now!

Best in show awards are always given to games that aren’t out yet. They’re about a presence at a games conference, not an award for the final quality of the game. That in and of itself is not an indictment of awards as a concept, nor does it negate the hundreds of post release awards, including a great many fan-voted…

But you know it’s not about the women being pregnant, but the taking of the second, “guiltless” life growing inside them, right?

Their sympathy is about taking a child’s life that has nothing to do with the conflict. Of course it gives someone pause. It would give most people pause. You’re really reaching here to call…

FYI Anthem’s awards were entirely preview / E3 based, i.e. “game of show.” It didn’t win anything after release.

TLOU2 on the other hand, won hundreds after release. Not a fair comparison.

That’s certainly a take on it.

Rather than get into the weeds discussing a nearly 2 year old game’s merits, I will just note that the game doesn’t suggest pregnant women are more sympathetic, SOCIETY does. That’s not a novel concept Druckmann imagined up for the game. 

I’m not sure about “plenty” but there certainly was “some.” That doesn’t really diminish the fact that the game was quite well received critically - it not only has a high review aggregate score but also received hundreds of awards.

Totally agree. It’s still stunning to me that a AAA game from a major publisher was allowed to do and say the things that game does and says. Incredible that Naughty Dog had the guts to do it and that Sony had the guts to trust them on it.

Except Druckmann was the narrative lead on the first game and the second game, co-written by him, was very well received critically despite a vocal internet faction. The story was created by him as well, he brought it to ND. 

And even if he truly needs someone to keep him reigned in, he has that in the form of Mazin…

What a staggering failure by the parents of all of these kids.

I’m pretty sure they already make pure black pegboards that will work with these accessories. They definitely make a white version.

It would be lovely to get a real look at God of War as well as a true PS5 Last of us Part 2 upgrade.

I never said these things can’t be fixed, I said there should be an element of realism in conversations around these issues.

I think a lot of people took my original post as some sort of corporate apologist thing (that’s fine, it’s the internet, people love to take things in the most bad faith way lol). Corporations don’t care about their employees, even the “best ones.” They don’t HAVE to dump extra work on you, but the reality is that…

That’s fair. There’s no denying there also needs to be additional hiring as well. I just focused my post on the pay for existing employees.