The write-up makes some strong and/or interesting points, but how many times did you really need to remind everyone that you wrote this in the early AM and that you’re totally “not an academic.” Nobody reading this would have faulted you for not being so.

name-drop fest is a perfect way to describe it. There were no virtually no original ideas in the story and reading it felt like a chore, possibly more so due to the fact that I actually got most of the references. It made it boring and predictable.

Pretty interesting stuff but written in an unnecessarily long winded way. We get that you wrote it late at night. So what. You’re totally not an academic. Cool.

One of my favorite games ever and I’m so happy to hear someone bring up the soundtrack because I’ve always felt it gets overlooked. It brings me to a happier and simpler place in time.

Can’t agree more. Gail Simone did wonders on that book

Except that’s not at all what he said. It would be great if he hired more POC writers. His show needs more. He’s not really speaking against that, but saying that he hired indiscriminately and now doesn’t want to fire who’s already there.

It’s no inconvenience. And I do not mean to trivialize this person’s experiences. It’s just that he’s using a hypothetical situation to be angry about something that has not happened yet.

I get what he’s trying to do, but there is really very little evidence that anything is different in his experience. Even if he just addressed the way he was stared at and the ways it made him feel, the surreal way in which he could be playing a colorful videogame and then look up from his phone to see hate in…

No doubt. But the problem with the article is the fact that it does not advance the conversation about racial prejudice, nor does it provide any sort of reasonable analysis of (or insight into the features of) the game.

RDR was almost perfect but shares the same annoying feature with GTA games that make it difficult to really get back into: the #%$king “mash the X/A button to run at any sort of decent pace” feature. How this has remained the same from GTA3 to GTA5 (and all 4 or so spin-offs) is beyond absurd. Map it to the L3 button…