Elite’s visuals were so completely inaccessible, in the sense of ‘accessible for people like me with visual disabilities,’ that I had to walk away. Wasn’t playable, because hideous form always comes before function in sci-fi, because something something artistic choices.

It’s a reference to a now decade-old meme about Women Laughing Alone With Salad as a weird visual trope in advertising stock images.

https://medium.com/collective-rage-a-play-in-five-boops/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-the-meme-the-myth-the-legend-88b7179689ea

I mean Red vs Blue has a decade plus of storytelling and popularity that rejects that point.

I made three attempts to play this game and failed every time. I get angry remember what an utterly incoherent experience those opening ten hours are - this is a game that drops fantasy names at your from the get go and puts no effort into providing context clues for what it’s talking about. There’s a bad trend out…

Save yourself the effort and delte the rest of the game while you’re at it.

I don’t think you can call any game that sold over five million copies in its first four years a ‘cult classic.’ It’s gone multi-Platinum - it’s not obscure or niche or ‘slipped under the mainstream’ in any meaningful sense.

The opposite of tears would be... saliva? Should she spit on him?

Nothing offends me faster or more disproportionately than realizing someone is advertising something at me. My computer is built mostly of ad-block software at this point, so every time an ad gets through i get extremely offended at the intimate tones and suggests they know me.

I don’t laugh when I eat salad and I…

All true facts, my friend. I meant only to comment on their... unfortunate sartorial choices.

What? A group of vtubers who “release streetwear” and shilled crypto might be... not entirely upstanding people?

I cannot believe that folk who dress like Jason from The Good Place and publicly play Fornite weren’t offering trustworthy fiduciary investment advice for a fringe currency market.

Don’t you remember? He and David Letterman are taking time off to spend more time with Steve Martin’s kids!

Y’know - so they don’t grow up weird?

There we go.

“Maybe I’ll pick up a copy of Dragonriders of Pern too. Sounds like it’ll be right up my alley.”

You say that of a series I openly called out as misogynistic. “Sounds right up my alley.” If you say so. Enjoy the ‘rape turns men gay’ and the ‘you need to hit women in order to stop them from being hysterical’ -I suppose,…

This headline made me sigh so deeply I knocked a wall over like the Big Bad Wolf.

To the one guy at Marvel who grew up during the Spidey Clone Wars er and looks bck on it fondly: you are completely alone, and nobody is with you in this moment.

Sugary cardboard!

No, I think lazy, sexist writing by hacks should be taken seriously - you obviously are taking them seriously, otherwise you wouldn’t feel the need to stand up for them, much less employ the ‘please don’t take them seriously in a critical way because I can’t abide the though of thinking about the thing I am enjoying’…

When I got my kindle some years ago I filled it up with R.A. Salvatore books I got off the back of an internet truck: all thirty or forty-odd books in his sprawling series and eagerly dove in, eager to see how well they held-up from my youth.

I gave up after managing to claw my way through the Crystal Shard - because…

That’s an extremely bad comparison, though, because The Holiday Special more than adequately prepares you for Rise of Skywalker - they both baffling, incoherent dumpster-fires, and watching the former honestly will give you just about everything you need to understand the later i.e. hollow, masturbatory fan wankery.

So it’s become cliché to shit on Funko Pops, but I think it largely has to do with the fact that they’re fucking horrible and look like shit.

These continue the trend. They’re horrifying and I hate them. So should you.

It’s also just a lousier game overall - a better combat system wired to a dumber story with less-interesting villains and a tedious repetition of enemies. The ending of ME3 gets a lot of flack - and it should, as its choices are all morally reprehensible and not in keeping with the philosophy of the previous 100 hours…