In terms of the RPG aspect, they definitely went with the tabletop route. From is the dungeon master, and you can be whatever you want to be

This. It’s not laziness or poor story telling, it’s just different from what many people expect. You earn the story in this game just like you earn every victory. If you figure out the story you get to feel some level of accomplishment for it... and that is the whole point.

You are in a huge thread of people 1.) testifying to the story’s existence, 2.) explaining the game’s means of telling it, and 3.) pointing out where to find it. If you set your ego aside for ten seconds instead of stubbornly repeating that it doesn’t exist, you might be able to accept that it does exist, just not in…

“No story, lore, or plot driving you through....”? Maybe instead of skipping all the dialogue and cutscenes you should sit back and pay attention. This entire game could be turned into a novel or series of novels. It’s immensely detailed and the lore itself is incredibly deep. Just because it doesn’t hold your…

They lay out the story like you’d have to run across it in real life.

But that’s an extremely artificial method of delivering story.

Being sympathetic to the characters or understanding the plot doesn’t have anything to do with the world.

Pardon? Masterclass in world-building?

Except that addict is Kotaku and the addiction is smearing CDPR.

Especially because there’s nothing as convincing as screaming “’Murrrrriccccaaaaaa!!!!!” when talking about a studio on a different continent.

A history of being smeared by Kotaku, you wanted to say.

Of course, given the reaction to the show, it’s entirely possible that he tosses his notes and rewrites the ending just to pretend “It wasn’t me” :P

But the writers had GRRMs notes as to how he planned things to develop.

But that goes both ways, mind you. Because the article here pretends just the same Gotham exists in isolation.

That Hall of “Fame” that failed to induct Joe Cocker and dismissed fans with a standardized letter the kind of which you send to people trying to suggest local bar singers for induction is more like a Hall of Shame anyway. 

That’s because being fanaticists, they only accept 100% certainty as they have 100% certainty they are right. Science, on the other hand, only offers probabilities.

You described Christianity throughout history though, not just born again Christians. This isn’t new behavior.

I’ve chosen! I’m very against Putin’s behavior here! I think I made that clear when I outright referred to Russia’s behavior as falling under the war crimes category.

I don’t buy Putin’s facile little argument about going in to deal with neo-nazis, but it’s indisputable that Ukraine’s gov’t and military forces have a lot of neo-nazis and Zelenskyy is not your get out of jail free card here.

Difference of treatment? There is some difference of treatment in some of the countries neighboring Ukraine. There are even some claims that refugees from Ukraine who are POC are being turned away or unreasonably delayed. But that’s not “Europe”. The same countries which did take Afghan, Syrian etc. refugees are also…