This is a lovely profile of alt-left bros, who sound strikingly like what the alt-right bros were like before people started taking things overboard. Loud and “edgy” about their opinions, not afraid to show it, but also not on the wrong side of 40 and into cool things like drinking and video games and Westworld.…

Back when I used those services, I found that those people were completely incapable of carrying on a conversation if you DID ask them anything.

My girlfriend was showing off her FFX savegame to me a year or so ago, everything maxed out and every sphere grid at 100%, (she really likes that game) and decided to bust up the final boss chain with standard attacks doing max damage for laughs... and then we both watched that ending together. We are both softies.

For sheer storybook ending pleasantness, I’m all about Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, Personas 4 & 5. Final Fantasy X is also pretty good at wrapping things up, in a good gut-punchy kinda way.

Super true. They are truly the successors to the old style, Nomura & Co. can take a hike.

What are the other nine?

Digital Scythe? Yes please!

I came here thinking this but was way too classy to say it.

There are many varieties of cheese in the world.

“I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIGHT!!!~” is way better, for sure.

Fuckin A, Nadia was the best character. She ice skate to save life, not for fun.

It’s a single screen with them hugging, and the text “Congratulations Thomas and Sylvia! But their happiness does not last for long...”

Back on the 360, Sneak King was one of my favorite games. It wasn’t very good, but it was still great.

Long-ass unstoppable commercial attached to the video? No thanks.

Define “satisfying thwap.” This sounds like the weakest of sauces.

There’s this thing.

“Admittedly, when the sun first laid eyes on the scribe’s work in progress, he found it completely and utterly lacking—an affront to the Dawn Father himself. He has been assured that the finished product will be of such surpassing quality as to spur the resplendent Azim to cry out in joy.

Many workers at big publishers/developers are getting a raw deal, for certain. But growing up around a number of businesses where groups like the Teamsters have a strong hold, or even observing the changes in my own field as local groups unionize here and there, I have a tendency to be cynical about it.