They were pushing the “DON’T STOP UNTIL $1000! TO THE MOON!” crap during their first round, and then it crashed back down to reality looong before that...just like it will this time too.

It’s not a concept that can or cannot be a thing. It just is. You don’t have to acknolwedge it. But it’s existence is pretty independent from anything that can be disproven because it’s simply just a category at best.

I’m convinced this individual is indeed spouting nonsense.

Human social contracts pretty much operate that way.

“I try to avoid being a dick”

You could remove mobile and the PC numbers alone would probably make the graph look identical. Here is some more: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/for-console-games-downloads-are-approaching-a-tipping-point/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/190225/digital-and-physical-game-sales-in-the-us-since-2009/ 

No, people suddenly started “caring” about them is a better way to put it. Frankly, I’ll take my anthropomorphic characters and whimsy over gritty boring humans any day. (or better yet, give me everything except the boring humans)

They were already a thing in the 90's my friend

I was talking to a friend the other day about how anthropomorphic characters seemed to have disappeared from games after the 90s. It’s nice to see a little bit of a comeback.

Git gud

Yes, but they are not women, so it’s not relevant.

Does this happen to the male protagonists at all? Ethan went through a lot in Heavy Rain too as I recall, and the entire game is one long Rescue Kara mission isn’t it?

Men get treated like shit too. Ethan mars gets mentally and physically abused throughout that entire game. Most of the men in Beyond are abusive and violent or completely clueless. I’d say it’s about equal. Ethan even got his own shower scene!

I going to be honest here, I don’t get this. I get the hand cutting off bit, but not the the part with GRY and “language”.

I figured at this point if we’re discussing the differences between a movie and a book series, book details from 1982 and 1997 were fair game.

Right? I’m reading a person who wants all the good parts of a relationship with none of the effort, commitment or vulnerability that come from them.

Well since the earth is still the only place we know of with human life, the sample size is pretty much gonna be 1.

“You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.” - The Big Lebowski

You’ve dug too deep.