If all programming questions were not on Stack Overflow and moved to Discord, the entire industry would come to a screeching halt.

Yes, this. From the moderators, regulars, and experts viewpoint, on forums or Reddit. They can answer questions once, and if someone asks the same question again, that’s on them for not Googling first. On Discord, I often find a lot of hostility between mods and new users because they get tired of responding to the…

The angry comment brigade that comes out when you dare criticize the cute cat game is a little nuts. How did these people get so personally invested?

This article makes me think of Bugsnax: a great game with a fun premise and a promising story... completely taking a 180 and turning into such a dark experience that made me feel so gross by the end.

I don’t tend to listen to reviews on games, much, but I genuinely thought this was going to be a cat exploration platformer. I don’t want a robot friend. I don’t want to help people with tasks, I want to explore a city as a cat, like a sandbox.

I think it’s difficult for some people to write a story without a definitive story arc or reason for being somewhere. A character can’t just exist, they need a reason for doing something and a definitive end for their story.

I get it, but I also wish I could consume more media that just let a character vibe with no set…

wasn’t you i was replying to. i don’t disagree that ads are a huge, debilitating issue rendering the site unreadable at times. does the writing get silly and occasionally reaches? sure. but this anti-woke bullshit narrative is pure, uncut shit. “wokeness” as a perjorative term is by and large used by regressive,…

It’s such mild criticism; the extremely angry responses are blowing my mind. The unstoppable force of the internet’s almost performative love of cats meets the immovable object of gamers who insist that games are art but don't understand that art criticism exists. 

i half expected you to say that there was a giant crab enemy whose weak point you had to attack for massive damage.

This is disappointing to learn.  I hoped it was just a game about being a cat, though I acknowledge the basic problem is that humans expect certain things from stories and wild animals tend not to have narrative arcs.

I often think about how long you should be expected to play a game without giving up on it. I used to be pretty uncharitable, but then I played Fallout. I couldn’t get it, spent 2 hours fucking around and dying, and quit. Then a friend convinced me to play Fallout 2, it clicked, and afterward I went and played through…

I downloaded the game this morning, but this article turned me all the way off. No thanks.

I’m not one of those gross guys, I’m on REDDIT

To all the commenters getting strangely heated over this opinion article:

This 100% also describes me. I remember that first trailer, and haven’t really paid much attention to Stray outside of keeping tabs on its overall existence since that first trailer was so compelling.

I mean, as someone who heard about the game when it was announced, saw the first trailer / teaser or two, and then didn’t really follow it... I expected it to basically be just a fun game about navigating interesting spaces as a cat and nothing else, and I was surprised that it veers wildly away from that.

Aw man what a bummer :( I too woulda loved to just have a game where ur a cat and go around doing cat things. Like Untitled Goose Game kinda but with a cat. Oh well. I'll still play this haha

While I think I would have preferred something more like a cat based adventure game, just being able to play as a sweet lil’ kitty cat is probably gonna help me overlook any flaws in this game. Still, I appreciate this article for tempering my expectations!

No way man, It gets way fucking creepier. It’s almost horror at some points. A little light gun is nothing. 

Kittens dont pay the bills, call of duty does! it was nice while it lasted at the beginning..