Longer than that. The entire site’s been in a downhill slide ever since Gawker smarmed their way into being shut down by that ghoul Peter Thiel, and they’ve been hemorrhaging talent ever since - Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders leaving io9 made that site nearly unreadable.

I knew who the author of this piece would be before I even clicked on it.

Some YouTube person I think.

But this is a new movie, and an article was needed, I guess.

The Reapers in general were weirdly flat after the first game. The initial encounter with Sovereign made them seem inscrutable and terrifying and beyond understanding, while 2 and 3 made it clear that while they were still a galaxy-ending threat (basically the same thing as the Inhibitors from the Revelation Space…

Pure luck whether or not you get past those goddamn dogs and manage to perch on the arch long enough to kill them off so you can fight the boss.

Fired up by people who wouldn’t otherwise have given them the time of day, like Steve Bannon and Roosh V. I think the Gamergaters have dispersed into even more pathetic endeavors by now.

Do they even need to? The whole “True Gamer” hard-r crowd is pretty much alt-right by default for the last 10 years at least. I guess the silver lining is that it’s not much of a “community” since they hate each other just as much for not playing Dark Souls the right way, or liking the wrong character in Smash Bros.,…

Yeah, I mean it’s not even “bad writing” really, in the case of either Redwall or HP. Redwall was always a little more serious from the start, while the underpinnings of both wizard and muggle society are exaggerated and silly - the Dursleys literally move from the suburbs to a tower in the ocean so Harry won’t get…

I think HP’s ethics are torn between the initial Roald Dahl-esque, over-the-top kids’ fantasy it was at the start, with comically odious characters like the Dursleys, and the actual world-building it tried to do later. I think there’s potential in Slytherin - drive and ambition and tackling less whimsical magic…

Of course his name is Tanner. I guess he’s been playing stupid games long enough that he was overdue to win a stupid prize.

It made me happy to see Themberchaud. He’s the best fat dragon. I call him Themberchonk.

BattleZoo designing an entire free ancestry for Pathfinder 2nd edition that lets you play an obnoxiously overpowered isekai protagonist gave me a laugh.

I always wondered why the hell people call ray tracing “RTX,” in the same way I wonder why they call microtransations “MTX.” I just assumed it was gamers being shit at coming up with shorthand for pretty much anything as usual.

They know what gets clicks, I guess. Wired used to be a pretty interesting magazine. Do they even have a magazine anymore?

When I was reading one of the major battles in Words of Radiance, I thought “Man, a Stormlight Archive musou game would be crazy, make it happen somebody.”

It is a weirdly hostile article. I’m not even sure what the point of it is, other than making sure everyone knows the author really hates Brandon Sanderson and his family. As a casual reader of Sanderson’s work, I’d say shrug and move on - seems like Kehe is miserable enough already.

It doesn’t count unless you make sure everyone knows.

It’s also perfectly in-character for a kid who’s been raised by a military force convinced of its own necessity in keeping humanity “civilized.” Being a kid in that world would suck. She’s naturally going to have a complicated and less-than-healthy perspective on violence.

Yeah, I just left that sub a few years back when it went from making fun of the ridiculous, melodramatic crap gamers say to just plain contrarianism and then something darker and more meanspirited. They’ve fallen into the same trap every circlejerk subreddit falls into.