We must have watched a totally different movie - I did not feel like Black Kkklansman portrayed those other cops as having good vibes towards black civil rights activists at all. 

As a comment to other things saying it isn’t much of a game, I think that Her Story is just as much of a game as games where you simply walk down a corridor to the end. It has more gameplay and interactivity of thought than stuff like Journey or Abzu, yet nobody questions if those are games because of graphics. I say…

Such a proud boy.

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Lindsay did not listen to anything that girl said. She made up her own story for her in her head and just went with it. People not listening when I’m being clear is a huge pet peeve of mine. That conversation was so uncomfortable to watch. Does Lindsay ever interact with real people because that is not how human conve…

I’ve been working at a coffee bar in a store that serves a lot of celebrities and ridiculously rich people and this sounds like the kind of small talk I have to maneuver my way through far too often. It’s as uncomfortable in real life as this scene makes it look.

I don’t understand why people act like it’s a bad thing that it’s done through comics/shorts and not in game. Pretty much all the backstory is told through comics and shorts. Are people mad that Widowmaker’s backstory/lore is told through ancillary media? It’s hardly comparable to Rowling who reveals shit outside of…

Didn’t seem to hurt him much, but her technique was def better than his.

While I am proud of her for defending herself, I cannot believe the other crew members and managers just stood there and watched her get attacked 🤨!!!! I worked at McDonald’s as a teenager, and was a manager too, and there is no way my 18 year old ass would have stood for that shit, and calmly spoken to a customer tha…

Y’all, keep in mind that the check was $1,000 for THREE WEEKS of pay. A nigga can’t even make over $300 a week without raising suspicion. 

The headline “Like Many Black Women, Kim Porter Was Under a Doctor’s Care and Still Died. That’s Terrifying” and the subsequent dearth of any evidence that her tragic death was a result of a lack of quality medical care is what I found unsubstantiated.

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but there’s no details explaining how we can link this to medical negligence? Creating a belief that Ms. Porter went a doc and got negligent care because she’s black doesn’t seem accurate; I have read that she was feeling ill the night before passing and was discovered at home deceased, not…

It’s definitely not about raw realism (ie. FULL SIMULATION) so much as removing NPCs from the tyranny of the player. As for solutions, it’s hard to figure out but I actually think that as much as The Elder Scrolls series is mocked for robotic character acting, the fact that they have observable lives that aren’t…

Do you think there’s a viable solution? How do we avoid NPCs feeling wooden? Arguably, RDR2 has come further in this endeavor than pretty much any other open-world game. If that’s still not enough, how much further do you think it needs to go?

A little bit, yeah. The theatricality of NPC interactions feels incompatible with space it is taking place in.

So a sort of Uncanny Valley corollary for video games in which the realism of the environment highlights the unrealism of the NPCs and makes them more profane in comparison

For me, it’s because Red Dead Redemption 2's extra world details point towards a larger desire to simulate something real and actual. That impulse and the details that go into it are directly at odds with the people in the world itself, who cannot ever be real or have agency because they exist (perhaps here even more…

Kirk, this is easily the best game review I’ve ever read, but also the best writing of any kind that I’ve read on this website. I enjoyed your creative narrative prose over the the technical trappings of FPS and other “data.”

Maybe, just maybe, wait to see the released product first?

I, for one, look forward to all of the complaints from console players who’ve never beta tested an MMO