What a great article to wash the palate from this week’s bullshit!

The guy playing Harvey is not the best actor of his age, is he? His line delivery is passable but his reaction shots.... oof. He’d fit right in both in that orchard and the forest.

Wait, this takes place in GREENDALE!?

I understand that it’s a pilot, but Dear God, I hate how often characters refer to one another as “auntie” and “cousin.” It’s so awkward and obvious in establishing relationships. 

No-one gets a pass for not understanding American culture and politics unless they’re children. I’m English and feel like my life is a like an American Studies class that never ends and I’m just a Joe Nobody. GOG is an international business who largest market is the USA. You can’t really believe that they’re so…

“Real and damning effect on the lives of the LGBTQ community” - like the rollback of trans rights and protections currently being pursued by the U.S. government by removing them as a protected class under title 9 by legislating that they don’t exist? The very actions that prompted the #WontBeErased hashtag that GOG…

I wonder if Poland’s recent love affair with nationalism is influencing this in anyway. This year there was a nationalist rally that drew about 60,000 people. I’m not saying anything specific about CDPR but if you live in a country that’s so pro-nationalism you gotta wonder how that influences daily conversation and…

Simple solution. Go the fuck away.

Is there an unproblematic place to purchase games? Should I just go back to Steam and deal with the fact that they’re a faceless monolith uninterested in the swindling and garbage on their platform? Or is there just no ethical consumption under gaming?

I mean... Poland is currently in a political moment a lot like our own (right-wing authoritarians in power, profound rollback of civil liberties and political rights, mass fascist rallies), and while it seems like the preferred target is gay people, trans people are kind of also among the preferred scapegoats. And, I…

I feel like game-related twitter accounts need to have a blanket “for the love of God, do not try to be edgy” policy. Like, there needs to be an extension to their twitter app that asks “are you *absolutely sure* you want to make this sick-ass topical joke before you hit tweet? Are you *really sure*?”.

No, you’re not Liberal.

This is continuing, not only a trend of tone deafness for GoG, but corporate culture in general. The modern marketing scheme of creating “hip” social media accounts for companies and making trendy cultural references is going to be looked back on with a double serving of shame and embarrassment.

I loved Witcher 3 and have maintained unreasonable hype for CyberPunk2077. As others have pointed out, it’s concerning to see a publisher tackling futurism and cyberpunk when they are giving out signals of a regressive mentality. Trans-humanism, differentiating between the ghost and the shell, is one of the biggest…

No, you’re not Liberal.

Wow, you were reminded that people who aren’t just like you exist. I can see it was very traumatic for you. Do you need a safe space? Can I get you a glass of milk?

...and throwing ethnic slurs at the Poles is OK?

By itself, I could see this being an honest mistake. I mean erased makes more sense referring to data than policies being rolled back so just seeing something like that trending and, being from Good Old Games, using that hashtag without knowing what it was being used for seems plausible to me. Less so for someone…

Correction: there was no harm to you, which is why you don’t care.  

They run one of the most successful PC gaming stores that exist, they don't need you to defend them.  They need to spend some of that pile of money they have on a better pr person so this doesn't keep happening.