Lol. You just quoted a blog calling Spanfeller an idiot as evidence that they care what he thinks. Not to mention that all of this shit happened long before Spanfeller was involved.

But trolls also drive responses and additional posts, so...

One particular writer ungreyed most of them. Which killed the entire point of the reset. Which led everyone else to just give up. And that “fun conspiracy theory” is exactly the smooth-brained whining that ruined that comments section. Not one of y’all, even for a moment, ever considered the possibility that the…

The rest of that sentence was pretty important. That group was the reason the writers stopped bothering with the comments section. And the reason so few others wanted to participate. It wasn’t by any design; those people just grovelled to the right writer.

I keep thinking about this. There can never be more. No DLC or sequel, let alone replay, could ever be what Outer Wilds was. It’s this perfect thing that I can never have again.

If anything, the problem was the opposite. Splinter consistently had the dumbest, most tedious commenters. The top of every comments section was the same group of people who were too dumb to understand what they just read and too arrogant to realize it.

They shut down the Special Projects desk months ago, right after the sale. When Marchman left, and Merlan (RIP) returned to Jez and Cecilia returned to Kotaku.

Dr. Vink as a barber slicing an ear off and keeping it in his jar of barbicide. Google shows that he was a barber in one episode, but makes no mention of the ear. That fucked me up for going to the barber for awhile.

That marionette in the attic

It was a sac fly (and a great one that I was excited about) that rode the juice. That’s like saying Deadspin is a literal lasershot at sports.*

Only until you get about 25 eggs into Barry.

The hiring of Austen fits right in line with the university’s evident exploration of some market inefficiency in replacement-grade boneheads who would otherwise be unemployable due to their own ugly screw-ups.

You get that you answered your own question, right?

Who and why is the fake trump?

In recent months, Yang also become known for having a number of fans among white nationalists and the alt-right

This is the hardest it has ever been to counter in AC. Yeah, it’s still easy. But you just always held a button/trigger for like the first 4 games.

The modern day has literally never been “the actual gimmick” of the main story. And it hasn’t even been relevant in almost a decade. And I say that as someone who loved the modern day and feels sad about its neglect in every post-Ezio AC game.

For what it’s worth, this is the best AC has ever done with DLC. By a mile. Maybe the best Ubisoft has ever done. I got the main game at launch, finished it within a month, and didn’t touch it again until I saw a deal on the season pass early this summer. Between the proper DLC and the accumulated free updates, it was…

That makes sense if he chose to go there despite a comparable offer here or elsewhere. But Lerner spit in his face and told him to take it or leave it. He doesn’t owe us shit.

Rendon is gonna hurt so much more. Love rooting for that dude.