Also, the whole bit with White’s increasingly ridiculous changed forms was a homage to “Duck Amuck”. I was half expecting they’d attach a flagpole to his ass with a screwball flag but that that would probably be too on the nose.

I think the meta stuff was more of a dig on Q than you are giving it credit for. They included themselves as part of the purported “Hollywood elite” (one of my bigger laughs was their BASEketball promo shot on the bulletin board) that are being held up as this hugely powerful group that is running the world. They…

Oooohhhhhh!

The thing that continues to bother me, is it’s clear that CDPR made a game that was designed to push the limits of high end hardware, but still encouraged last gen console owners to preorder and purchase. They did this knowing that they needed last gen purchases to justify the cost of the game’s development, but also…

It WAS total awards bait. Nakey Jakey on YT did a FANTASTIC video on the failings of TLOU2 and its all correct.

In 2019 the movie industry made $41 billion and the music industry made $19 billion.
Video games made $152 billion.

“Fridging.” Do you speak in anything other than buzzwords? They sure do make the world a lot more manageable, don’t they?

Despite the claims of “innocence” from aggrieved users it is actually not hard to avoid getting banned from these services. It’s simple, just don’t break the rules and do some obviously shady shit like this. They don’t want to ban you, despite the claims of people that get banned. That’s telling a customer you don’t…

“Yeah, the whole goal of everything you do should ultimately be to protect people close to you and fuck everyone else.” That’s an awful lesson.

As far a storytelling goes, we’re still smitten with damaged people and the ideal and often easiest way to kick start such a story is a bad dad.

Line of the night:

The problem wasn’t the gameplay, but the tight lipped nature of the marketing and the fact the beta was an extremely poor representation of the final product. Which, funny enough, is what a beta actually would be. However, in these days, people hear “beta” and think “demo”. The beta build everyone played the past few…

The best thing they can do as a company is hire a single person who, y’know, likes Superman.

Look.

I don’t think her presence is the issue to be worried about. I’m more worried that it’ll be called and marketed as a Suicide Squad game, but it’ll actually be the Harley Quinn and her +1's. There are other members of the Suicide Squad. They shouldn’t be sidelined in a game that’s ostensibly about a group of people.

They better not put Quinzel in the team or I’m out. It’s fucking ridiculous how hard they shoehorn her into every DC property these days.

She was 15. Good judgement takes time to develop, and not everybody has it by 15, nor should we expect them to. A better question is why the hell were the adults in the house cool with letting a 15 year old girl live alone wirh a bunch of men

A polygon writer talked about it in her article on the game’s discourse:

“Although we welcome critical discussion”

A whole bunch of people are going to lose work, and a bunch more work is going to the shitcan because someone has an opinion you don’t agree with. You people are all fucked. Every fucking one of you. Fucked.