This doesn’t seem like people getting their hopes up based on a bare minimum of evidence to suit whatever their head canon would be, though, it seems like the writers and director deliberately calling attention to things that will be important next season. It’s a weird place to complain about fans being unreasonable…

That seems unlikely in this case, though. The series has been painstakingly attentive to detail when it comes to adapting the game. Why wouldn’t this specific instance “pan out they way they want it to,” and what else do you think they’re going to do with it? I just don’t see them dropping a major character from the…

I figured it was supposed to be Dina (the only person I still liked by the end of TLOU2), since we got to see Shimmer too. Several nods to the second game/season.

Romance in Persona is and always has been an afterthought at best. It’s optional, has no impact on the story, happens late in the game anyway if it happens at all, and is transactional because of the structure of the social links. I never went for any of them, because the characters all work far better as friends.

I always liked how technically, Law & Order, Homicide, and The X-Files share a continuity thanks to that one episode.

Jeez, even DBD has an evil tech billionaire villain now?

Plus he’s simping hard for Tanith.

Liam gets the stink-eye from me for his snippy attitude toward Vetra, the best spiky girlfriend. And Garrus is definitely in the top spot. I don’t know, maybe I just have a thing for turians.

Which is especially weird because the right used to be the ones freaking out about Harry Potter. I think people forget a couple things about the series. I worked in an Amazon warehouse (back when they were basically all books and a few CDs) when the first book came out, and we’d pick pallets of Philosopher’s…

Plus, Cyberpunk 2077 had them, I guess they’re just not allowed in fantasy medieval Poland?

It’s a literal children’s game, based on a series of children’s books, on Twitch, a platform with a lot of children. Of course it’s “dominating.” I’d be surprised if it weren’t.

Well, not everything can have water physics as good as Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance.

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.