Okay first of all, I’ve never played Fortnite yet I was riveted by this review. Amazing writing! I love that you’ve found the joy in this sometimes messy experience that many have taken to fashionably hating. However, the one thing I do know about Fortnite is that it's filled with addiction mechanics, like the Battle…

1. They cut away from the broadcast so seems like a weird move for a worked angle.

2. Hart had just seconds to react and frankly his reaction was actually fairly quick for a man in his sixties. I think given a couple more seconds, Hart would have been prepared and defended himself.

Furniture and silverware are not art products so there’s a whole different world of considerations there (there are accessible furniture and silverware options that fulfill the exact same purpose). Video games are just software; they can be altered in many more ways than board games. Even considering that, YES a board…

It absolutely IS a moral and ethical obligation, so we disagree there. If the creator is able, they should provide accessibility options for their disabled fans. Now not every developer or creator has the time and resources to make their work accessible to all. This isn’t always feasible. But a completely optional…

Even if there is literally no way to make an easier mode without hurting the game, a lot of people would rather play the compromised version to completion than hit a wall and have to give up. And that’s fine: nobody would be forcing anyone to experience the game a certain way. Just like nobody’s forcing people to…

Nobody is asking for a law forcing developers to make games a certain way. But we want to change that attitude among developers because it's frankly ableist. If a director refused to allow his movies to have official subtitles because they got in the way of his vision, he'd be within his rights but he'd still be a…

I disagree that it adds nothing of value. If players discover a massive bug, recent reviews might warn about it in a way that major outlets can't cover. I need to know from fans of smaller indie games especially how things are shaping up. Many of these games only get a handful of professional reviews.

So is every instance of a community reacting to a decision made by a developer “bombing?” If players really think a change greatly affects the gameplay, won’t there be a spike in bad reviews in completely good faith? I really don’t trust Valve’s claim that their great algorithm is going to work exactly as they intend.…

Every act of violence in GTA is generally “vague” violence. It’s violence where you don’t have to see most of the emotional toll of violence on the victims. They don’t beg for their lives, or bleed out, or express their pain. Depicting a brutal rape from the player’s perspective would force the player to commit these…

I’m definitely not playing RDO (not out of some protest, just because I currently find it boring and not satisfying), but I have a feeling there are plenty of fans buying gold bars, much as with GTAO.

I’m guessing OP has a problem with DRM, and I don’t really blame them for wanting a clean download without any installer nonsense.

I agree that the hatred has certainly become a bandwagon, but that doesn’t really address the criticisms themselves. Just dismissing everyone as haters on a hate train is as reactionary as hating the game without playing it. All Dark187 asked was what is going on with this game, which is an understandable question for…

“Nintendo will announce a BOTW sequel in a different world with the same mechanics and physics, sort of like Majora’s Mask to OOT.” This idea sounds so good I’m holding Kirk personally responsible if it doesn’t happen.

Astroworld dropped in 2018.

As someone diagnosed with Tourette’s (no corprolalia), some of this story felt off to me. For one thing, generally people with Tourette’s don’t “target” others as she seems to have done when she called kids “pedo.” The tics don’t follow rules of semantics or conversation as hers often do. I’m definitely not qualified…

I don't know if 76 works like 4 in this regard, but if you drop something it needs to be spawned into the world. Maybe that has something to do with it?

This is why no Hollywood films are made with unions. Oh, they are made with unions? Then I guess this take is garbage.

I thought there was a pretty overt allusion that Green Goblin will be present next time as well. I think Venom and Carnage will need their own storylines fleshed out in their own game, and they feel like good characters if we ever see a third game. I'm not saying 2 won't have either one, but the whole symbiote thing…

But that article wasn’t part of a huge political drive to harass the creators of Spider-Man. Also, the problems with Spider-Man are worse than “he helps the police do their jobs.” The game sends a very clear message that the police and the prison system are “good,” even while acknowledging that politicians can be…

But the real reason fans are upset is that they think the mere presence of women is somehow a political statement. They are not upset with any of the dozens of other historical inconsistencies (because they don’t actually know shit about Roman history), only the presence of women. And even then the evidence clearly…