I mean...it is very clearly aimed at children.

There’s a lot of good ideas here but the game is so poorly designed and executed that it just doesn’t mean much.  It definitely needed more time before releasing.

Marketing is fucking stupid.

...that’s all I got.

Imagine actually thinking this and believing oneself to be rational.

“That both political parties must address”

I mean, I can tell you right now that one of them is definitely not going to address it and it fact will not give two shits about it.

Hint: It’s acronym rhymes with “bop”.

Oh that’s adorable.  You think its rational.  Bless your heart.

Thanks for doing the legwork on that my dude.  He can be safely ignored.

As someone who’s entry point into gaming was the 8-bit era back in the 80s, this generation upgrade feels like the least “urgent” of any I’ve seen happen. Each transition had something that made it enticing to switch. 16-bit spoke for itself, 32 and the optical disc changed 3-D gaming, the PS2 could play DVDs, etc.

This…

“a coalition made up of Republicans who are not so into being Republican that they would back the worst president in U.S. history for a second time”

The founders didn’t support him the first time either.

Like I get you’re being snarky here but it straight up isn’t an accurate statement.

4K seems lofty. I’d bet it’s more like 1080p, which would keep it in the kind of price range Nintendo wants to deal in.

I mean, Target.com has a healthy 4K selection...but it is far from the majority model in any size.  1080p is the majority by a good margin in the 40" - 55" range.

“We are significantly more politically astute and not so susceptible to Democratic Establishment political fodder and taking our votes for granted.”

But you don’t vote so it makes no difference.

No one cares about catering to a voting bloc that doesn’t vote.

“You” actually have very little to do with it, because you do not have a platform.

But Ashley does, and she is choosing to use that platform to broadcast the sort of wishy-washy support that sees Democrats lose state-side races to Republicans ALL the time (the GOP has MURDERED the Democractic party in statewide races…

It’s cute that you’re pretending that CEO’s can’t and do not donate money below-board literally all the time in ways that never show up on reports.

This has happened for literal centuries at this point.  It’s only more sophisticated now.

My entire point is this:

One side regularly engages in self-reflective soft-shoe hemming and hawing over the candidates chosen and writes a lot of academic think pieces about it.

One side throws their principles in the fucking garbage the moment the candidate is selected, pushes the rhetoric non-stop, and lines up at…

We have the litmus test for this kind of Democratic “oh but if only this candidate were perfect” think-piece-flooded market: 2016. The margin of victory for the GOP was less than 100,000 votes in about 3 swing states. You don’t know what will tip the scales. Stop priming the pump.

When you are fighting against a party that will, without hesitation, drop any and all qualms they may have about a candidate and get in line to vote, you do not have the luxury, during an election, of playing the game any other way than they do, because you can’t fight that with think pieces about how unenthusiastic…

This is about Ashley being upset that people have been calling her out so she wrote a piece to says “I’m right, fuck off”. Basically.

This is, perhaps, true. But middle-managers and QA Supervisors (to name some slots at random) aren’t being compensated millions of dollars in base pay plus bonuses.

If a you take a competent software engineer and a competent VP of Marketing, let’s say. For argument we’ll say that they possess the same degree of…

“Even as an adult, I feel like it has this low, creepy hum to it.”

This was basically the entire Fantasy aesthetic of the 1980s. 80s fantasy, in film, television and even video games had an underlayer (and often an overt OVERlayer) of hopelessness and despair. There was always a sense that, whatever the characters…