Right. The collective aneurism from the general public and press coming to terms with the obvious is astounding. Take the same product, remove the Bethesda name and absurd hype, and it would’ve been forgotten and dismissed within a month.

Because the game is derivative, repetitive, ugly, and boring?

You can’t say it isn’t happening when South Park parodied it

What part of “there’s a contingent of fans who just hate women” isn’t applicable to Scott Pilgrim?

“You’re wrong about what what “angry white guys” are upset about!”

As a white male, something 90% of culture used to be aimed square at us. So now that its like down to approximately 75%, I get that it feels like a huge drop off. But to whine and moan about the awful “enormity” of how inclusive media properties are nowadays is just about the most pathetic thing I’ve ever heard.

(Also,…

There’s a pretty big difference between a plot twist and an anthology series telling people what its basic hook is.

Bro, you’re fighting to defend the honor of fucking... He-Man.

It’s the fact that it’s EVERY. SINGLE. Franchise and adaptation.

“Most “angry white guys who hate women, etc” aren’t upset that women can be heroes, or black people are replacing white characters, or that LGBT stories extist”

And yet you still wrote multiple paragraphs about why you’re mad about it.

The thing is that you “angry white guys” also react this way to comics that had “strong female characters” and “LGBT stories” from the beginning. Like Scott Pilgrim. Which first came out in 2004.

The 2010 movie came out too soon to include one LGBT storyline, and minimized the other because of time constraints. That’s…

“Most “angry white guys who hate women, etc” aren’t upset that women can be heroes, or black people are replacing white characters, or that LGBT stories extist. They’re annoyed at the enormity at which those things happen, often seeming extremely deliberate in it’s attack on “straight white men”.”

The anime was about Scott Pilgrim. He just wasn’t the main character.

“They’re annoyed at the enormity at which those things happen, often seeming extremely deliberate in it’s attack on “straight white men”

Oh come on. As a straight white man, absolutely none of those stories with female or minority or LGBTQ even remotely feel like an “attack”. You know why? Because I’m a well adjusted…

Cry some more nerd

People incapable of character growth hate character growth. 

That little to do on a friday that you need to pop into every comment to register your dislike of T&E style anticomedy, huh?

Watching things done 1:1 through an ironic lens has an energy that just watching a bad thing unfold doesn’t. Otherwise people would stuff theaters full of the worst comedies just to laugh AT…

And I have been skipping a few games after learning only a small part was on the actual cartridge.

* That mainly applies to older games. These days (especially for AAA) you put in the disc, install, and have to download a giant patch anyway - and then you play. If anything physical media is an extra hindrance, especially on PC.
Add that physical media get damaged, lost, and degrades with time.
The frustration of…