As someone who worked on it... I’m happy you finally gave it a real chance and got some enjoyment out of it. :)

I don’t know if I’ve ever been on a journey like this in video games, or ever will again.

But that doesn’t really matter anyway. There’s no rule that says they have to adhere to the same plot.

It’s simply really good story telling and world building. You can take that feeling from such an in-depth look into a single couple and extrapolate that out to a lot of other characters we meet only briefly. It allows…

if you wanna be a capital g Gamer, you gotta max out your pedantry stat and get on your soapbox.

The Last of Us is mostly combat and about 14 hours long. HBO needs to fill 10-12 hours of television. The math is pretty straightforward here -- tell more story.

Bill was a very popular character. The relationship between Frank and Bill was heavily implied in the game, but the showrunners decided to give it more story given the medium. The show’s episodes roughly fit into the chapters established in the game. Bill’s town was a single chapter. The show begins and ends roughly…

You sure do spend a lot of time typing out comments that skirt the line of defending bigots.  Stop dancing around it, just be honest for a change.

Which is why I and every other trans person I know (ie, people who aren’t terminally online and weird) wish people would shut up and just buy the game. Or not. Literally do whatever you want, but please stop asking me permission to do something you’re going to do anyway lol

My favorite thing as a trans person is when a not trans person tells us how we can serve our community better. Fuck all the way off with that shit. Maybe once half the country starts passing laws to make your existence illegal, you'll have a little more understanding.  Until then, shut your fucking mouth

Yes, you nailed it, let’s disregard the disclaimer right above that paragraph. Fucking troglodyte. Clip Chimping 101 right here!

I understand not wanting to support anti-Trans billionaire JK Rowling 1,000%. I’m not defending any part of that revolting cunt’s war on the Trans community.

Sure, you could make the connection that buying the Harry Potter game directly lines She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’s pockets, but as we know, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

I no longer care.  None of that is going to affect ratings in any meaningful way.  Companies care about ratings.  But im glad that the conservatives continue to do everything they can to ensure zoomers and millenials never vote for them in significant numbers.

It’s absolutely in bad faith. If it had been Bill and Jill, they wouldn’t have been able to stop talking about how someone was cutting onions because it’s impossible to say that someone moved you so much that you started crying.

Ive seen a lot of people complaining that Druckman ruins everything with ‘wokeness’ though i’m pretty sure based on an interview I read that this episode was Mazin’s idea and Druckman initially opposed it.

Regardless it’s one of the most beautiful episodes of television I’ve seen in a long time.

I also see a lot of…

And they’re usually out of shape, unwashed, and unable to cook a meal without a microwave.

A lot of it has to do with these men not finding their ideal woman, that really doesn’t exist.  The magical, virginal 4'11" blonde, weighing 85 - 90lbs, with 34-36DD bra size.  You can’t expect them to settle down with just anything when that’s what they want, can you?  Hehehe.

Here’s what I truly do not understand. So you think men are too “feminine” and women are too “masculine” (we’ll forget how subjective and ridiculous that is for now) and you’re afraid of population collapse? Fine. Then go chop some fucking wood and kill an animal and find some dumb, meek woman with no self respect who…

Hey now, don’t throw shade at ass men. No shame in admiring buts, irrespective of gender.

But yeah, MRA assholes can go suck it. Wherein “it” is whatever they would least enjoy sucking.

Even as a child, I thought the idea that “girls are scary because they have cooties” was weird and dumb. Never would have thought it would become a philosophy for grown-ass men.