I’m going to level with you though. Honestly?

Oh? Elucidate me, then, random internet plebe.

Brevity is only a valuable communication skill if you actually convey a cogent thought. Being generous as I am, I’ll assume you do you actually possess the capacity to do so and merely chose not to.

Your usage of ‘yikes’ like some kind of an angsty teenage tumbler edgelord doesn’t exactly lend you a great deal of credence here... but sure, y’know what. Let’s play this game. I’ll take a risk that you’re actually a functional human being and not a faux-outrage AI algorithm wearing the skinned -off face of some poor…

Alternatively: STONKS ONLY GO UP, ECONOMY GOES BRBRBRBRBR

I SEARCHED THIS ENTIRE COMMENTS SECTION FOR YOU, SHAWN!

Having worked at Burger King here in the states, I have a little Inside Baseball for you on this... at least as far as here in the US goes.

Hi there.

That’s the most anyone can ask for, in the end.

It’s not odd at all. Nor is it selfish.

Except the overwhelming opinion is that it really IS good.

Whichever way the dildos go, the result is the same:

Honestly? I just think they deserved a better story.

I won’t say it’s ENTIRELY unearned. It’s not. It puts in the bare minimum of required effort, but that’s still some effort. I would be being disingenuous if I acted as if it did nothing.

See, the problem is that the first game was still a GAME. Despite being linear and forcing your hand... the things that it moralized about weren’t things that you had no control over... and the ONE point where it did... the finale... by that point it had spent the whole game getting you invested in the characters to…

A remarkably small portion of the people who hated it hated it because of stupid bigoted reasons. The overwhelming majority of people who hated it hated it because it’s a nihilistic crapsack (go check tvtropes if you don’t get that crapsack’s a genre-thing and not me insulting to game) experience made by someone…

You’re not wrong. That is, in fact, the entirety of the opposing argument laid bare. It’s a risk-assessment scenario, and we’re all working with incomplete data. We don’t know what the numbers will be. We don’t know what things will look like. We can attempt to analyze and predict human behavior, but we can’t actually…

There’s a VERY legitimate reason to hesitate being first in line for the vaccine.

I’ll give you that much. They’re definitely not wring wraiths.

Because Rowling TOTALLY invented the wispy black-robed creature yous guys! Really! You gotta believe me!