I hear you, I think a lot of people our age (I’m just a few years younger than you, I don’t have children but otherwise I would describe my situation similarly). Ironically I think a lot of the judgmental attitudes out there are projections of personal economic anxiety, either a lack of money or guilt for feeling…

Thanks for this. The irony that an internet comment could produce a much more realistic portrait of her finances than the diary entry that provided the info to do so is probably the clearest indication that they failed in their mission

There’s a Zack Snyder fandom in a similar way there’s a group of Redditors very concerned with ethics in game journalism or a fandom with strong objections to the recent Star Wars films.

Read what I wrote, I’m not expressing an opinion one way or another, I’m saying there’s no reason to act like a fucking ghoul when discussing it. That girl’s family could be reading this comment section

If it hasn’t yet, I’ll bet it will soon!

Way to punch up. You tell that grieving family!

You’re blaming the dead 15 year old who ate a cookie? And felt self-satisfied enough about that to include a gif?

I wish, but I feel like the real culprit is so, so much dumber:

That’s not just checkers...

On the one hand that’s a brutally honest self-inventory and they aren’t falling for the sunk-cost fallacy. On the other hand, that can’t be good for morale and that’s on top of an existing team/leadership structure that’s apparently not produced anything they feel is worth preserving for the past 16 months. Tough call

You’re intense...

Warcraft, but it’s definitely “least egregiously terrible.” The CGI orcs are legitimately compelling and grounded but the human actors are stilted, their dialogue is out of an 80s TV cartoon and the costumes and sets look worse than homemade cosplay

The “engagement” model is hitting some pushback too now, the HBO townhall leak caused some concerned internet chatter, Netflix just had an ice bucket dumped on their recent “more is more” strategy in terms of subscriber numbers, and some genuine anxiety about Disney/Fox throwing another subscription on everyone’s…

How do you misspell something you obsess over every waking moment?!?

Anything written by Bret Easton Ellis. Less Than Zero isn’t even worth a pithy comment, it’s just fucking depraved

Considering the book he came out of, that makes a lot of sense. Spend $15 on that and try to walk away with a positive take on consumerism

Fight Club proves your point: the movie gives you Brad Pitt, the book is a couple hundred pages of Ed Norton voiceover.  “I am Jack’s blood pressure rising at another goddamn paragraph about Ikea furniture”

They sell cheap swag to teenagers. Specifically, the anti-social kind. All the disposable income, no competition with friends for their time, and a deep, consuming thirst to feel part of a community larger than themselves.

More the tropes of an out of control production than anything unique to video games, this movie made Tropic Thunder seem like a documentary

Same subject, but this writer turns it into Heart of Darkness. I’ve hoped someone would turn this article into a movie since 2014: