I’m already preparing my doctoral thesis on it, which I expect will get me the highest honor for outstanding quality and achievement.

And it would automatically put on Twitter “HAX!!! THIS IS SO MUCH BS!!1!”

Just wait until Elden Ring comes out. ;)

If they are passing on your recomendation because they have no idea what “metroidvania” means, that incidentally speaks volumes about how their value your opinion/counsel.

He also turns into a Super Saiyan.

And I think that happened at a time when there were definitely more Castlevania games coming out than Metroid games

Metroidvania’s refer to unlocking abilities that unlock more access to the world around you. You can have a 2D and a 3D metroidvania, but it’s about that gated access to a world that opens up w/ new abilities.

Well, Blizzard did acknowledge the common spelling on the 2011 April Patch Notes:

You just made consider this: if “metroidvania” isn’t a good term should we get rid of the “soulsborne” portmanteau as well?

So what? “Can of corn” is a meaningless phrase to anyone outside of baseball

At the very least, we should get something decorated with the image of dwarves cowering before goblins instead of cowering before a bivalve.

I agree with the vast majority of your comment, but I have 2 points to make about the whole situation:

It’s not me the one being obtuse about the part I put between brackets, but that’s not here nor there, I guess.

Fair enough, but the Steam forum post linked in the article wasn’t edited by PC Gamer and seems to confirm their version of the interview.

There are 10,000 individual headgear meshes? I find that hard to believe, but I’m also not a programmer nor have I been banned on Twitch while playing one (am I doing this right?), so what do I know?

Those are amazing!

they’re planning (though not guaranteeing the ultimate inclusion) on adding a toggle for players to filter out those choices, so that every character in the game is displayed as a white male, regardless of their rival’s actual selection.

The immediate follow up to the part of the interview you quoted:

On a related note, I have a black male character in Rust which was forced upon me by the developers without a choice, which I think is wrong. People use racial slurs against me in game because of it.

The insole, however, has both a big Naruto logo and some character art.