I really liked Legend of Mana. My friends did too. We spent hundreds of hours playing that game, digging into its intricacies, crafting weapons and building world maps. It was great.

That’s something that was worth mentioning. The Stormlight Archive series feels consciously like a JRPG in novel form, complete with the insanely oversized swords and ridiculously impractical armour that only exists because of Rule of Cool.

The whole concept of “reinventing the personal narrative” sounds like more as if Bioware knows this isn’t a single player game, has no interest in making a single player game, and is keeping up the thin veil to keep RPGers around for their next title.

Life does have an easy mode: being a rich white male in a western country.

The fallacy of GamerGate is also contextualized in this line: “but that’s actually what most GGs are concerned about.” How would you actually go about proving “most”? By being an anonymous group that’s opposed to formal organization or outward hierarchy, you cannot by any measure say “most” anything. This group cannot…