The biggest blow with this news that a lot of gaming fans might miss is a lot of people from indie devs to journalists to all others losing the access to networking opportunities. E3 wasn’t just the outward facing multi billion dollar advertisement, there was a whole world behind the curtain that’s just going to get…

Holy shit yes. This is one of the most annoying things in the collection of annoying things that have befallen the modern AV Club. I’m commenting on this article for a reason Gawker people, let me stay here. 

One, two, three, four...Hosinfefer incorporated!

Microsoft really doesn’t want to make the “company big” argument.

Eh, for me that excitement kind of died with the 24/7 internet gaming news cycle. Seeing the post E3 copy of EGM in the mailbox was like Christmas in July.

God this line of reasoning is so irritating and desperately reliant on people not understanding that anti-trust complaints are not about “company big.”

It’s been bothering me for months now. For some reason they load two articles at a time—some sort of aborted endless scroll feature?—so the article you’re reading loads along with a preview of another article directly below it, and I think the address switches over to that latter article on refresh. Makes trying to…

Oh, you mean Buff Zach Braff?

Once again Dave Bautista proves himself to be one of the most self-aware, realistic, humble and level-headed A-listers working today. May his career be long, successful and varied

Anyone who’s dumb enough to think that a career grifter who sits on a gold toilet in a New York penthouse apartment every night is a genuine candidate who ‘cares about their needs’ probably deserves to get fleeced for everything they have.

Slander is spoken. Libel is written.

If I said out loud, “This commenter is too stupid to use the word libel,” that could be slander. If I wrote it, then it could be libel. Luckily, you are too stupid to use the word libel, so its just a fact.

Yeah, even by the standards of this constellation of sites after they were last sold, it’s a particularly irritating thing to have enacted.  They actually managed to make the already-stupid infinite scroll even worse!

It happens.

You know what’s frustrating, how when I’m on an article, after I’ve commented, AVClub changes the web address to some other article (today’s choice is something about China banning tik tok), so that if I hid refresh it takes me there instead of to the article I was on. So I can either go to that article and give it…

I feel like this episode was exactly the kind of slower, more character-driven standalone story that TWD often tried to tell — it’s just that those detour episodes of TWD often didn’t work because the writing (and to a lesser extent the acting) wasn’t up to the task.

It does make for quite a lovely change, and more importantly it plays an important role in pushing Joel down the particular path he’s going down. You have to do extra work to build that in a TV show versus a video game, where you playing Joel in a particular role tends to build that characterization.

Yeah, it does definitely benefit from the fact that The Walking Dead and a few others tried to do other things first, and established patterns that TLOU can now break.

There’s also something to be said for HBO’s budget for this, which I assume (from production standpoint, if not actor contracts) eclipses TWD. Every set…

Disclaimer: I haven’t played the game.

Good thing we have Dax Shepard on standby to take over all his roles.