Nazis burning flags; protestors making white people feel uncomfortable.

To incels, it’s basically the same thing.

That’s not particularly true. Europe and Canada are also dealing with their own problems akin to America. It’s a worldwide phenomenon which is why fascism persists. People cannot handle the fact that the world is chaos incarnate: they are not the main characters in their lives; that they are so insignificant that they…

But that’s my point though.  It removes any onus on the audience and the media to actually do something. Yes, the companies involved are directly responsible, but it is up to us to do something about it. 

A lot of it is fear. The presence of a pandemic significantly uproots people’s lives, and people would rather lie to themselves and deny that it’s happening than actually deal with the problem. It’s a way to maintain control in a world that’s increasingly becoming chaotic.

While I agree with the sentiment, but I also find this kind this both pointless and disingenuous. Partly because it doesn’t really address the issue at hand. All award shows are just ways for media giants to pat themselves on the back, but ultimately they mean nothing. So who really cares if Hades won GOTY, because it…

Also...Goddamn am I eye-rolling so hard at the “well great now it’s rewarding crunching” moralizing because the hypocrisy is fucking incredible. Yes, there is absolutely an argument about crunch, and it’s well deserved conversation that the game industry needs to have. But trying to pretend that it isn’t an industry…

Whenever someone “offers” fixes to TLOU2, it usually involves making it a more standard, “crowd-pleasing” tale, one that becomes the very thing they claim to dislike the game for—just another revenge story.

But yes, the games flourishes are exactly the reasons why I love TLOU2 so much.

Except that it didn’t blame players—it blamed the characters. That’s the thing that people don’t understand.

Well, yes. When the only options you give the player to interact with your world are violence... you don’t get to stand there and say “Don’t you feel bad about that thing we just made you do?” It worked once in SpecOps because nobody really saw it coming... and even then, it presented you with some kind of choice by…

So what? Everything should just be happy, to make you feel better? I hate to use this word unironically but...maybe don’t be such a snowflake about it?

Art is a great medium because it doesn’t solely have to make you feel good. It can make you angry, upset, and a wide variety of emotions. I mean, it’s not like TLOU1…

I played Hades. I liked it, but it certainly wasn’t my favorite game of the year.

Ghost follows the Ubisoft model to a T

I have no idea what it is about Ghosts that anyone would think it should have won GOTY. It is an open-world game. You have played these kinds of games countless and countless times before. Outside of its gorgeous Japanese aesthetic, there’s really nothing to it. It doesn’t really capture what makes samurai films from…

Well, that’s like, your opinion, man.

They won’t ever figure it out because that’s not really the focus. Profit comes first and if it means charging kids the right to play a pop song while streaming fortnite, you better believe they’ll do it.

Corporations are not your friends.

but remember...when they mean “politics,” they really mean any thing that questions the status quo.  For example: White privilege, toxic masculinity, systemic racism, homophobia, the idea that America isn’t number 1, the idea that our military is being used for anything other than “protecting our freedumbs,” and any…

Think you kinda proved his point, bruh.

I tried replaying XIII because I didn’t hate it as much as people seemed to back in the day.

It might not be as bad as XV, but good lord is it indicative of nearly every single problem with modern Final Fantasy.  It’s just a slog through and through, and it doesn’t help that not a single character is likeable.  

I have to imagine it’s similar to how titles similar to “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” took off following that books massive success.

It’s marketing.

at this point, it’s really only a matter of time until they make this game ftp.