no no, bad reviews are paid for too, but by shadowy progressive organizations that sneakily want your to accept their depraved agendas like... not being racist or something.

My takeaway from this is that Josh Hawley has developed a serious porn and videogame addiction and now must project his problems to the rest of us.

Isn’t it possible that the teachers in your example were merely fired because their idea was dumb, not necessarily because people objected to someone’s opinion? Had they attempted to engage their students in a smart way, would they still have been fired?

my top-of-mind was:

Right. You launched into a tirade “lashing out at Kotaku’s words” without even mentioning your “public take” excuse until several posts later. That’s a long time to wait before bringing up the entire reason you’ve chosen to respond to my post specifically. 

So you leapt to conclusions about my post, insulted me based on that misunderstanding, and apparently your behavior is somehow my fault for my failure to divine how your mind interprets things. It’s been, what? Three days since Pratt was announced to be taking the role? Perhaps I’m just getting old and slow, but it…

Never said anything about Pratt’s ability or inability to do Mario. I just said I didn’t want him to do an Italian version of his Starlord character. I just feel it doesn’t fit the tone I expect from the Mario franchise. Maybe you disagree given how insistent you seem to be at Mario’s absolute lack of characterization,…

Blade Runner was filmed during Ford’s Indiana Jones run, not after (temple of doom and last crusade both came after Blade Runner). But yeah, this is beside the point.

I don’t like or dislike Pratt in most things, but it’s very dumb to assume that an actor will play something the same way he played other characters, especially if they guy is typecast.

Looks nice. About time for a gritty Angry Beavers reboot.

The rest of the casting seems okay, so I’m going to probably give it a shot. I just hope the director has a death grip on Pratt’s collar. The guy will revert into his insufferable man-child schtick if given any leeway.

To be fair, I think it’s written on the Bible that you should always cast the first stone after judging others lest you be judged yourself.

I feel like you shouldn’t be talking about plot structure in your introduction. I get you feel the story is so clichéd you can describe the story beats openly but players looking to give the game a shot deserve to experience the narrative unfold at its own pace for better or worse.

Lax gun control and laissez faire stand-your-ground laws were too subtle a declaration.

crap. we got climate change in our video games now too?

the need to /s has never been so eloquent.

I hope I’m not minimizing the concerns of the “Anti” crowd, but I can’t help but to compare this controversy with the perennial undead horse of “video-games cause violence” that gets trotted out every now and again.

I hear what you’re saying and actually agree, but surely you realize you’re not going to convince anyone when your argument hinges on defending someone that rapes children? All you’re going to accomplish is harden the position of those who might have been more receptive otherwise.

They said the same spiel regarding construction work but it didn’t quite hold true. Certainly each industry is going to be different and what works in one is not guaranteed to work in another. All I have to say is: has it been tried yet? Because it seems to me that the current system isn’t working and no other…

Well said