This ain’t a unique take, but it is the correct one.

I don’t want FLCL to explain things or make sense, I want FLCL.

Hopefully the money they saved on having silent protagonists enabled them to hire a few extra voice actors to do the NPCs so you don’t have 600 different characters all sharing the same 5 voices.

In all honestly, it was a pointless addition in the first place: you don’t need an explanation for why there are slave soldiers, historical precedent already justifies their existence, and you don’t need to make Bearers slaves, because the Blight itself is a good enough reason to explain why states would work people…

No it doesn't. That theme does, maybe. But the game itself isn't somehow worse because they didn't dig as deep as you would have liked. 

Before any discouragement from Kotaku haters and FF defenders, I got to say: this article speaks my truth.

What a wonderful summary resonate to what I’d been feeling during Clive’s journey. I wonder if developers were just too lazy to dig deeper, or tragically chose something too big for them to chew. I thought given…

I think that’s a disingenuous take. It absolves the development team for introducing deep ideas they couldn’t —- or wouldn’t —- deal with in any significant manner. The game explicitly sets up a world where slavery exists in mass form; the game is responsible for then navigating that appropriately.

It was something that bugged me during my play through.

I really hope it’s a nobody, just some jobber in a mask. Yet another almost jedi who joined up. They way they can be used however much, or little that the story needs.

But then the top executives would each have to take home a slightly smaller bonus! Have you considered what a hardship that would be for them?

One of my personal pet peeves about the AI “prompt-gineers” (aside from, you know, the theft of art and labour etc etc all that) is that they will “produce” a piece of work with shockingly obvious issues that wouldn’t fly past the eye of even an armature artist....and just say “fuck it, good enough. Post”

Eight…

Hire human beings/real artists, you sacks of shit.

Where were they supposed to find artists who know Fallout?

Nah fuck that dude. Gamescom is great for the public, 99.9% of people at it are great. Also this isn't one of the public days, that's not til the weekend 

Fucking braindead take, these toxic kids are far more likely to have been the bullies.

…it also kinda makes me wonder where the value for Microsoft is in the entire deal now.

I think it means that any games outside that 15 years do not automatically fall under this deal. Everything else however is theirs forever.

If the plane is not responding to controls, there’s no point in riding it down to the crash. You’ll kill yourself and not change the outcome for anyone on the ground.

Air shows just concentrate planes together; they rarely *cause* the crash, especially post-Rammstein. We don’t know what brought this plane down, but if it was a mechanical failure, it would have crashed just from flying it around not at an air show.

I think your second point is a lot of it. I picked my character based on what I felt would round out the group best.