The more I hear about this game and its philosophy, the less I want to play it. 

He’s got over 15 million subs on YouTube.  Your anecdotal lack of awareness of him does not negate his popularity.  

Tingle’s sexuality could not possibly fit into one of your narrowly defined boxes

You say that. I've had the steam deck for over a year, and it is totally hamstrung with it's limited os. Everything is a bypass that requires extensive tinkering to get done. Epic game store, emulators, hell even drivers. If the performance is there, I'm all on board with this.

Lex also can’t stand it being pointed out that they’re being more toxic than the fans they’re complaining about.

LexW cannot stand different people having different opinions from them.

lol, way to be the exact kind of person the OP was talking about.

You come across 100x more aggressive and gatekeepy than they do, and seem to be really personally hurt in a way that suggests they hit a nerve.  Because you write and talk like the exact type of snob they are discussing, and I think some part of you…

Accessibility is vital. For each The Name of the Wind, there’s a faintly disguised LoTR fanfic being cranked out with 17 prepositions to every noun. While prose is important, fantasy is built as a platform for imaginative stories and unique ideas. Don’t get me wrong—prose makes or breaks a story—bad prose can tear…

LexW you’re coming across a lot more angry and toxic than the person you replied to. It’s jarring to read. 

“The MCU of fantasy books” is such a perfect description!  And I’m saying that as a general fan!

Sanderson is best known as the writer of The Stormlight Archive, The Reckoners, and Mistborn series

Where did you hear this cancer business? Have not seen one credible source document any kind of long-term cancer battle, public or otherwise.

Also, you’re making a *ton* of assumptions about their production workflow. From the state of the game shortly before Lightfall, we know aspects of the third and fourth seasons o…

Why is it always seem like everyone acts like it’s a dick move when Microsoft pulls this kind of shit but shrewd and savvy when Sony does it?

While obviously we don’t know the exact specifics of what actually happened here, it was pretty telling that everyone who knew or worked with him was immediately ready to accept it as fact because of all of their experiences dealing with him and his history of behavior everywhere he went. The number of stories that…

Sounds to me like y’all need to do more Grapple melees. And make better use of your tangles. You probably wouldn’t be complaining as much about not having a grenade in Strand.

The last cross platform title I worked on was for PS4/XBO, so it’s possible the situation has changed in the current generation, but our experience working with Sony and Microsoft was very much the opposite of what you described.

People are just focusing on the hardware aspect.

“their SDKs, optimizations, and tooling, far exceeds what Microsoft offers on Xbox.”

Translation: You guys were SOOOOOO MEAAAAAAAAAN about the half-assed steam ports we kept releasing, and we didn’t even come close to selling the 10 billion units we projected in our last investor meeting, so we’re gonna take our toys and input latency and go to Sony’s house!

“The Devs went on to say that they were working on innovative programming techniques to get the game running on other platforms, but that at the current rate of progress there probably wouldn’t be a breakthrough until after a contractually obligated timed exclusivity window had expired.”
or something like that.