Whoever said the Soviet system made everyone equal? That was hardly the case. The hierarchical system of the Czars was just replaced by the Hierarchical system of the Soviets (they never were communists beyond using it as a marketing slogan).

And what you just said was a myth. “Everyone” wasn’t poor in the Soviet Union. Just everyone you knew.

Life expectancy is going down and poverty is going up. That system no longer works for the people. 

its crazy to think that the entire global financial system, the reason we aren’t living in recyclable space towers, the reason the oceans are cooking, the reason we haven’t cured many diseases, all of it can be summed up by ... people with money only care about making more money

one day someone is gonna get shot for booting a vehicle, and we're all going to collectively shrug.

Or Angle Grinder Andy, or Chop Saw Chuck...

Sounds like a job for the Lock Picking Lawyer.  ;-)

You have also done nothing to prove that it is a well crafted game that is superior to it’s counterparts in any category other than popularity. Oscars are not tailored towards indies, they are tailored towards movies that take their craft seriously. Interesting to know that The Return of the King was a small niche…

It’s just wild that you are on one hand saying that HP deserves some sort of recognition because of its sales figures and general positive reviews, and then acknowledge that this exact logic doesn’t apply to other industry award shows like the Oscars. It is almost like industry people have different criteria other than…

Who’s still talking about Hogwarts, though? Who’s complimenting anything about its gameplay? You’re talking about it, sure, but you’re immediately going meta: big numbers!

You haven’t even played the bloody thing, if anyone has an agenda here it is you.

Tell me which categories Hogwarts would have been a better option in and I will be able to find a better game that came out this year for each of them. Pulling up metacritic numbers for games in categories other than GOTY feels largely pointless, and even then, I’m saying that Hogwarts had an over-inflated MC score…

“Police-involved shooting”

It might be a bit myopic to ignore the controversy (which, frankly, I had forgotten about), but I’m not aware of any awards show that bases its criteria on copies sold, Metacritic ratings, user reviews, or number of people who saw the thing. That’s just famously not a thing, so it’s a bit weird to insist that other…

Hogwarts was a mediocre game that had inflated reviews because many people just wanted an HP game where they could make their own character and be a Hogwarts student. Yeah, I guess it delivered on that for those people, but from an actual game design perspective, it was ridiculously mediocre and shallow and is by no…

Nah if it wasn’t the first “real” Harry Potter game in a very long time, it would be sitting at a 7 or 7.5 at most. It’s a competent action-adventure game that doesn’t do anything particularly new or interesting other than give the fans of a massively popular IP their fantasy of going to magic school.

Apparently most people think “indie” means “low budget.”

Any actually indie game got snubbed by Dave the Diver. Great game, but pixel art doesn’t make it indie

and his cult of right-wing conspiracists fascists

I mean, it didn’t. It came out like a wet fart and was forgotten about within a month. Probably because it was just “collect 20 X” over and over again, from start to finish, with a kind of generic plot wrapping it all in a bow.