This is definitely the vibe I get from most of Nintendo’s works: that the worldbuilding really doesn’t matter so long as it lends itself to interesting gameplay.

The Neir series does this VERY well. I’m playing Neir Replicant for the first time, and each subsequent playthrough gives you different/more dialog, cutscenes, lore, and context. 

This idea that it’s just Fallot in space is dumb. It’s more than that.

It feels like a failure of vision: a space game where exploration and distance don’t matter, an RPG with mechanics that only ever act as a meaningless gate, a shooter where each gun somehow feels the same, and a builder with useless rewards.

The biggest issues I have had with Starfield are mainly QoL and the procedurally generated content being way too consistent between planets.

“Where locations in the best open-world games feel like places that permanently exist and are situated within a living world, Starfield’s galaxy feels like a file structure in my computer’s operating system.”

Yep. So what? 

FOCKIN GENDER AMBIGUITY

Chappelle gleefully ignores the fact that the majority of trans women murdered in this rat-fucked country are Black. He and whoever this idiot is doesn’t give a single fuck about Black folks. He doesn’t need us ‘cause he barks on command/cash for white audiences. 

In Scott’s circles, there is nothing a “virtuous woman” wouldn’t put up with for a “good Christian man” like Scott. There is no quirk, oddness, work schedule, sexuality, even abuse that a Christian trad woman wouldn’t see as a challenge to simply endure. Often with encouragement and pressure from the church, family…

Phew, good thing nothing infringed on your bubble of safety.

ask yourself: “is the crime a person did or is doing worth that person dying over?” and if the answer is no, don’t call the cops. if the answer is yes, and it’s about a video game, go fuck yourself with a tire iron. 

Actually do always use it for your alcohol purchases. If I’m just buying a case of beer or a bottle at someplace with self checkout I will generally go there. I know the attendant will be able to actually override the age restriction. In a lane you are taking up a whole staffed lane, with the off chance the person can…

These channels and websites dictate tens of millions and collectively hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware spending a year. So lots of people care. When someone goes out to build a new gaming PC, they look at benchmarks generated by these types of people. It doesnt matter if you are a veteran or a noob, you…

It goes right along with his tone-deaf defense of auctioning off the prototype cooler. “We didn’t sell it, we auctioned it for charity!” C’mon, dude.

His initial response of “well ACTUALLY we didn’t sell it, we auctioned it” was so spectacularly stupid and ill-advised that it made me actually believe him that he’s doing too much work to actually function.  

Correction 8/16/2023 1:19 p.m. ET: Clarifeid weekly video count described in the fifth paragraph belongs to Linus Media Group as a whole and updated to reflect only one weekly podcast is produced.

That’s what bugged me most. Linus’ response is easily the worst of everyone else. They all, for the most part, accepted the criticism and said they’d be better in the future. That’s fine, but most of Linus’ response was him whining about people calling him a thief.

Linus consistently painting himself as a victim in his responses is kind of tiring, too. He’s got that sad-faced woe-is-me schtick down cold.

Let’s be clear, Linus was always a smarmy prick...but when you are a relative nobody, that isn’t a big deal. Once he got high on his own products, the cracks started to show. The fact that he is PROUD his shop is anti union and there are NO black on air or behind the scene talent, it solidified everything I needed to…