If nude mods in video games is how you get your rocks off, you need to seriously re-examine your entire life.

Step 1: We replace him with AI.
Step 2: As soon as he’s gone we wipe the AI

Hell, that’s videogames. Like always comparing the industry to Hollywood, thinking Roger Ebert's dislike of the medium really meant anything etc etc

What? They're right. 

Well, don’t get any more clearer than this that e-sports have nothing to do with gamers anymore and that normal people have taken over it.

what?? every other AAA game is open world and tons and tons of devs go for gigantic spaces that cause games to take sometimes hundreds of hours to explore! this isn’t innovative in the least.  that said, most of ubisofts worlds are fetch collectathons...i mean, how about some quality over quanitity.

And because this one went through the next major buyout/acquisition will surely be okay. And the next, and the next and the next until people are literally going “look...it’s not technically a Monopoly because there’s still, uh, Bob’s Dev Garage over there! See! Competition!”

its like people forget incredibly recent history, like how the fuck Microsoft grew to be so big to begin with.

Sorry, but we are all losers here... not just gamers. From an antitrust perspective, this should have been a slam dunk case for the FTC. One of the largest tech companies in the world buying one of the largest videos game publishers in the world, for one of the biggest corporate purchases in history? There is no…

Sony does all of the same shit as Microsoft. The only reason I’m not calling them out is because this is news about Microsoft, which is twice as big as Sony.

No. Big giant companies buying big giant companies (even ones that barely even make one or two console games a year like Activision) is always bad for gamers.

Gamers are an instant gratification group. This is a perfect example of celebrating instant gratification with no foresight on what it means 10-20 years down the road.

You are right in one respect. Business monopolies aren’t like the board game.

They are much, much worse.  

This is like the crack dealer telling you not to buy too much crack, while also offering a limited-time crack sale on the side, and also threatening to cut you off of any if you don’t buy some crack.

This sounds more like a self-control/neurosis thing than a how they designed the game thing.

(giving an unsupervised child a giant bag of candy that will expire in 10 days or whatever) remember not to eat too much at once

It’s good they’re advocating responsible play, but also a little silly that the people who designed a mouse trap are telling the mice “just don’t eat the cheese, bro.” That’s the thing you built, my dudes. You deliberately designed a thing to keep people playing for as long as humanly possible.

yeah great ok cool, just mentally swap ‘cop’ with ‘a lawyer’ and you’re done

Night in the Woods is almost entirely about the capitalism-driven disintegration of society in small-town America.