Bro, don’t do Albert Finney like that

The real problem here is that in the original Weird Science, despite the two boys creating their “dream girl,” the girl actually ends up being the one with all the power in the relationship. That dynamic, with the roles reversed would be....problematic, to say the least.

+1 Merkin

Buncha hooligans.

“Wait, I thought this was the DoD...why else do you think I would be so into defending schools from bears and not so into actually understanding how a school works?”

Could be in both cases. I’m not traditionally a fan of that style, because it’s just spot, spot, spot and I’m basically Ole Anderson at this point in my life, but with the right talent and/or a ladder, they can be really solid.

Man, that’s a quick heel turn.

Lesnar is meaningless if he loses clean. There’s no more hook to that character as currently constructed — shows up 12 times a year to beat people to a pulp. So if he loses, I would guess that means he walks. And that’s fine.

It’s possible to be pretentious without being an asshole about it. Blow doesn’t strike me as a bad person or anything, but he also doesn’t strike me as someone who thinks very much about other people’s feelings.

man, if that back seat could talk, amirite?

“This is one of those human psychology things I don’t understand,” he said. “Am I ‘proud’ of the game? I don’t know what that means.

Christ, I could practically hear him disappear into his own ass with that “What does proud REALLY mean?” bullshit.

your mom

“Captain John ‘Far’ Cry is sent in by a secretive government agency to infiltrate the insidious The Project at Eden’s Gate cult, ruled by charismatic leader Joseph Seed.

Counterpoint: I am having a ton of fun playing this “terrible” game.

At the risk of giving critics too much credit, they’ve praised games for being bold enough to “go there” before. Wolfenstein II, which is mentioned in the review, is a good example. So I don’t know if the issue is that Far Cry 5 isn’t “real” enough. But I haven’t played it yet, so I can’t judge.

I understand and agree, but that’s also a bit of a false dichotomy; you can actually go into the issues with the militia movement without going full shock value. The idea that you have to go to that extreme if you want to say anything is part of why it seems mush-mouthed I suspect

I disagree on people arguing against a game being “too political”, but I think there is an argument against a game being “too real”. I mean, sure there’s a market for a game where the villain uses pregnant 9-year old brides as human shields, but do you personally really want to play it?

The writing’s political neutrality seems to seep through the entirety of the game, according to the full reviews I’ve read. Disappointing to see Ubi fink out on a premise of white nationalism fairly heavily implied during the game’s original marketing. The game’s getting dinged for backsliding on this, and rightly so.