I’m sure a lot of that is because the first game came out before GamerGate emboldened these window-lickers and they realized they could wage a coordinated online culture war instead of just seething in their basements.

The constant beleaguered-hipster snark can take a hike, too. Any day now. “I win. Yay. What am I fighting for again?” I mean, you don’t have to review video games for a living, or even play them at all, if you don’t enjoy it, right?

I just don’t have enough time to bring myself to trudge through all the crap. I just can’t get into formulaic light novel protagonists and worlds where they talk about “levels” and “classes” and “spell slots” as a part of the setting. It’s lazy and boring. And that’s not even touching on the borderline creepy incel…

Eh, maybe it doesn’t technically qualify, it just depends on whether there’s a requirement that the world be physical rather than digital. I call it an isekai because it established like every current isekai stereotype. There wouldn’t have been such a glut of isekai if not for SAO. It definitely doesn’t feel much like…

Oof thats not going to go over well on the internet.

Having a character I can “project myself into” is the least immersive thing I can think of, I hate when people act like it’s what everyone wants. I’m myself every damn day, whether I want to be or not. If I’m playing a game or reading a book or watching a movie, I want to watch a story about somebody else with their…

It has to be said that isekai now is a different beast than isekai then. Even in anime, isekai in the 80s and 90s tended to focus more on girls and women as protagonists (Escaflowne, Inuyasha, Magic Knight Rayearth, etc.) and do a lot of world-building. After SAO, isekai has become this constant stream of “snarky…

It’s also clear that something’s definitely not right (probably some kind of mental conditioning), but the internet loves it when they can call a protagonist a sociopath and search through the entire series to find little things they can take out of context to support that conclusion.

We’ll probably get a floatable palette, at least, since Ellie mentioned she couldn’t swim. And I at least want Joel to make a nail bomb in about three seconds and throw it at somebody.

I think it’s just a joke about all the main characters being in Game of Thrones and how Abby was hella swole. Chill.

I like the part where they point out that every villain in the book is short.

All I want is a movie version of Shapiro’s novel, True Allegiance, with Shapiro playing bear of a man Brett Hawthorne. And they need to keep all the dialogue exactly the same as in the book.

Eh, I’m fine with people being into whatever they’re into, as long as it’s all legal and nobody’s getting hurt. Millennials seem like they’ve finally reached a point where they can comfortably discuss what they’re into via NSFW art on Twitter, while zoomers have circled back around into this sort of 90s-Republican…

Isn’t it mostly millennials? Zoomers seem sort of prudish.

“Terrible game! I’m very bad at dumb things.”

The best solution to the trolley problem is still the video with that little kid who moved the fat person onto the track with the other people and ran the train over ALL of them.

And Arcane, which is weird because people couldn’t stop talking about it when it first came out. Now we’re back to “all video game adaptations suck.”

Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex also had an episode whose plot was a direct reference to this movie.

I’d say Legacy of Kain, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Vagrant Story all have a better story, to start with. But they also don’t really have narratives that lend themselves to television. TLOU is like a season of The Walking Dead, and I’ve got pretty much the same issues with both.

Jesus, dude. There’s a lot of room between “the best person ever” and “the worst person ever,” and Joel is somewhere in there. It’s like any discourse around these games at all now has to remove any and all complexity from the characters to make a point against The Other Side.