Sounds like he was... randy.

This makes the most sense

Haha, I did the exact same thing my first day playing and dismantled someone’s ladder accidentally. Contrary to your experience, I just immediately felt shame like I had done something deeply offensive (probably because I was raised Catholic, but that’s another discussion for another time).

Early when you have no way of handling BTs, the game is definitely more stressful. Once you get a few tools to handle them and become comfortable with how they work (how to stealth around through them or just wipe them out), then it becomes far more relaxing. Weight balance/shifting also becomes easier as you get used…

I agree with this, it has its rewards. If only it felt less of a chore to me. I personally wouldn't mind if the music just plays while I walk without any BTs or Mules around. While I like the encounter at times but with the heavy load and rain, it's really quite bothersome to me.

As someone who struggles mightily at times with mental health, I found that true early on. There’s a measure of tension in the struggle of trying to drag everything without a single fuck up. For me, what helped break that tension was a few rough falls and pulling myself back up and picking up all my boxes and…

I really want to love this game, everything has been really good except for the gameplay for me. The part where people find the game relaxing, I find it stressing as well, guess it’s just not my kind of game.

Oh, I didn’t mean to imply you wouldn’t be welcomed back. I just wanted you to GTFO of here with the accusations firmly in-hand, and then leave the accusations wherever that might be, before returning sans accusations.

io9 went from a progressive and inclusive space with phenomenal book, television and film reviews with an emphasis on hard science (-fiction) and fantasy, to a Disney/HBO fan site with occasional asides into More-Ideologically-Pure-Than-Thou nitpicking pretty rapidly with the departure of Charlie Jane and Annalee…

Heather, Gita, and Cecilia have been fighting the good fight as well. Also Tim Rogers has been an amazing addition, and giving him free latitude to do whatever the fuck he wants with those video essays (like the KH one) is one of the best editorial decisions a website can make.

So I’m sure it’s only a matter of time…

I’d recommend Tor.com for a website with similar article output like old io9. It’s commenting system is not nearly as good or as peopled, but the articles remind me so much of what io9 used to be (lots of specualtive articles, book and adaptation news, themed posts, etc.).

kotaku was my entry point, and I still like them, but they have declined too. its mostly flagging on a small number of popular games and rarely, new weird gamesthat used to be their calling card. they were the best gaming site on the internet, but in the last several years i really came here more to rant about trump…

I don’t think you’re entirely wrong about io9, but I still think it is good. It’s still my favorite geek site. Out of curiosity, what other sites do you frequent that cover the same field?

And man, I used to love Kotaku, but my employer blocked them a few years ago and I just don’t read them all that much anymore.…

It is, but I still love it. I will be sad when it eventually gets left out in the cold to die.

io9 is a faint shadow of its former self.

I didn’t agree with a lot of the posts on Splinter and I often disagreed with a lot of the comments. But the one thing I always appreciated was that when something absolutely ludicrous happened and not nearly enough people were going around saying, “What the flying fuck was that?” I could always find people on…

Splinter was good. Gawker was good. Deadspin was good, when it wasn’t sticking to sports.

This is such bullshit. This was one of the main outlets I read, because I can read the same shit elsewhere, but it’s less funny, and the comments literally everywhere else on the internet are completely and utter trash.

I just learned that Splinter is officially dead a few minutes ago.

I’m normally one for over-long prose, but I just want to say this, and then I shall shuffle off to gaze at my navel in other fields:

Some of the writers around here are among the sharpest, most incisive folks I’ve had the privilege of reading. There’s…