The most cartoonishly overt evidence that Hasan is a misogynist comes from 2016, when he worked at Young Turks (ugh). He and Cenk Uygur (ugh ugh ugh) co-led a “How To Pick Up Chicks” bit where he “jokingly” said “I’m being a total misogynist,” defending himself by pointing out the show’s audience “is like, what, 97…

A social democracy with a progressive tax structure funding the government to a level where universal healthcare and higher education are available doesn’t preclude someone from becoming wealthy and buying a Porsche. Sweden has like 40 billionaires.

No “modern online socialist” is demanding we pass legislation to make people give away 99% of their wealth.  Leave the hyperbole at the door, dude.  Socialists want equality and equity - a level playing field that ensures he mega-wealthy are paying their fair share (which they’re not) and that people who are not…

Yes cuz there are only two ways to live: “penniless” or in  5million dollar house.

Wouldn’t an actual socialist consider excess participation in materialism directly detrimental to their long term goals?

Mind backing that up somehow? Because otherwise, I don’t see why video games and video games alone aren’t art while every other piece of media is. You don’t think audiences influence TV? Books? Music?

This is how I feel as well. People can criticize From Software, they can give their input on what they want, but at the end of the day these games are art, and as such the team should be free to express their vision the way they want to. If that expression includes a difficulty slider, so be it, but the same goes for…

The thing is there are mods out there that can adjust difficulty in Dark Souls, there’s actually a mod out there called Easy Mode. And looking at the posts most people are supportive of the mod. If someone buys Dark Souls on PC and changes it however, they’re free to do so.

The most nuanced take I have on the whole difficulty debate is that, as a developer, From Software is allowed to produce their game as a work of art however they want to. Where as people are allowed to criticize that work and ask them to do better, they have every right to listen to that criticism and iterate their…

Tell me you're 14-17 years old without telling me you're 14-17 years old, Jesus fucking Christ grow the fuck up 

Maybe when you guys stop using the “git gud” strawman as a one-size-fits-all argument, a healthy discourse will be possible. Until then...

Why is it lagging behind to not include a difficulty modifier? Isn’t it a design choice for the developer?

Right. Dead Space and the Evil Within immediately spring to mind for me as survival horror games where I didn’t get tired of the combat. 

Came here to say the exact same thing, its a crime it only got one nomination even if that one nomination was the big one. Still my personal GOTY. Play this game people, it is that good!!

Totally not minding It Takes Two winning the grand prize, I heard nothing but wide acclaim for this game, much more so than other games on the list.

Looks awesome indeed. Now if I had a girlfriend to play it with... Oh well, we can’t play all our backlog right...? :(

Surprised Psychonauts and Ratchet & Clank got nothing though, those two games are absolutely incredible and got some of my most memorable moments this year ! I’m glad Returnal got something as well,…

The true snubbing was for Psychonauts 2. Most nominated game of the year and not a single award. 

They might be terrible and they might be doing this for the wrong reason but the refusal to accept and acknowledge that they’re on our side for this one is everything that’s wrong with politics

That they never shut down the Mother 3 Fan Translation after over a decade is probably about the best we’ll get. I’d love an official Mother 3 release and I’d buy it day one despite having beaten the translated version multiple times, but at this point it’s unlikely.

Alright so confirmed, fully delusional. I opened with “SMT V rules” but because I’m saying something that you’ve deluded yourself into thinking cannot be the case since you’ve been talking about how this game is GOTY since long before you ever played it, you’ve concluded I must hate the game and have a vendetta…