It sounds as though there WILL be a Season Five, then?  That’s awesome!

People who call women “females” always make me think of Ferengi.

It is always amusing to me how the complainers talk about Abby like she’s some freak of nature when she is, in reality, not THAT buff - I mean, she is far above average, and she would easily beat me in strength, but there’s nothing unrealistic about it, especially regarding her backstory of doing barely anything else…

are you this weird about all the other female videogame characters who have a physique that isn’t naturally occurring in 99.99% of females, y’know with impossibly small waists and giant boobs that don’t sag an inch?

Well we already have this moron to usher in this new (rehashed) stage of Strong Woman Derangement Syndrome https://kotaku.com/1851152496

God you guys are weirdos.

Did the character Abby have “a lifetime of testosterone influencing the development of their skeletal structure”, or did she just concentrate all of her free time bulking up for 5 years?

Are you implying that a totally made up videogame character is secretly trans? 

I’m sure that TLOU fandom and The Gamers(tm) will be incredibly normal, sane, and react with measure and reasonability to this news as well as the new season since they have a history of deffinitely doing that.

Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow is a physique that doesn’t scream steroids but also clearly communicates they are not to be fucked with. Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 is another example. Its my opinion that these physiques are also still quite feminine for the people who get their panties in a twist over that kind of…

maybe she was unamused because jo koy’s joke sucked ass? maybe she wasn’t listening? maybe she was bored just like everybody else there?

Pssh, if that girl wants to look like someone who’s had a lifetime of testosterone influencing

You seem fun. I bet you’re fun.

Sure but does “the paper of record” have to dignify it with an op-ed?  This is tabloid bullshit that any serious journalist should be well above.

The question I have is how the New York Times editors read the piece and thought yeah sure let’s publish.

I’m not particularly a Swift fan (to put mildly and politely) but somehow found myself reading that NYTimes piece. It was horrifying and said way more about toxic fanbases than Swift herself. I also noted that it was the same writer who accused Harry Styles of queerbaiting. I can’t believe it was given that level of…

I thought about this but the way characters exit and enter the narrative including player decisions would have made this very difficult to work with.

Though more importantly I’ll take this as a single player experience over the risk that making it co-op would have turned it into another live-service game ala Avengers.

Hard disagree. It was one of the best games of 2022. 

If you want an unmitigated tragedy, there’s always ‘Secret Invasion’.

This wasn’t a ‘pattern of behavior’ thing