I used to love the BBC, even though it was never perfect. The Tories have taken the idea of impartiality and turned it into cowardly passivity. There'a no attempt at discourse. They’ve become so toothless and scared of the government messing even more with the licence fee.

This also plays into the frustration of comedic performances often being overlooked, too. They will almost always vote for the prestige film with all the feels, over the exceptionally funny one because they don’t tend to value humour as much. It also sucks that because of ego or pride, a lot of very good comedy actors…

I played some of the game, but not very much. You make valid points, though I feel thay some of the game acknowledging his violence was more to to with the cognitive dissonance if he was portrayed more like the series has him (I’m reminded of how often it just felt weird how casually Lars started to massacre entire…

This particular episode made me cry for all the opposite reasons that ep.3 did. With that one, it was all the warmth and humanity moving me profoundly. With this episode, Several times I nearly broke down because of the sheer horror of it, and at least once utterly repulsed.

I was thinking the same thing. It’s taken me decades to come to terms with what happened to me, and I know it was illegal, but it’s already hard enough to process it without the stress of having to face abusers in court. The idea of having to do that terrifies me.

It really is such a shame they created a central story so focused in taking away a sense of self. I actually quite like the snippet of life before Jackie, where it feels like they could have branched the story off in myriad ways (Corpo feels perfect for playing as a hacker, Nomad for smuggler and Street Kid for being…

I agree that her lashing out at Evan Rachel Wood is awful, but to me that very act is a symptom of the abuse she suffered. I suspect she’s probably terrified, and is in survival mode. Feeling cornered and alone doesn’t tend to make one think clearly.

It really does. You feel so isolated and then you feel like it’s your fault, or that no one will take it seriously, or you convince yourself that it wasn’t.

Smithline’s response the Wood reminds me so much of the aftermath when a family friend was trying to get out of an abusive relationship and got manipulated into going back to him (she had made is as far as a women’s shelter before her family guilt-tripped her back). She then turned on those that were trying to help,…

I keep looking out for something similar. I usually just type the name of the game and the current month/year and thay can help find updated reviews. Hardly ideal, but it’s not a bad starting point.

That’s exactly the issue. And with the Tories seemingly declaring war on the art, cutting funding, etc. But hey, they want to promote Britishness, so yay...

This is so true. Here in the UK there’s a serious problem in the arts regarding placements for the working class.

I really hope that's the case. I just get a little cynical. People who don't know what abuse actually does to you in the long term that instantly dismiss a person coming forward years/decades later for example seem to be very loud. They may well only represent a small minority, but it's dispiriting to see.

This sucks. Whatever the truth is, she’s potentially tainted the entire case. I find it hard to trust Brian Warner over the accusers, and the declaration feels more coerced than anything I heard before.

Overlevelling is definitely a part of it, yeah. Also the fact the fact you can start to predict what the ai will do in a given circumstance. Clearing a base for runes becomes rhythmic. Actually tough games tend to prevent that being possible.

I know people love to say “hard as nails” when it comes to describing games like Elden Ring, but I have objective proof that’s not true. First being that I got to the end, and though I’m not awful at games, I bounce off of challenging stuff more often than not (or turn difficulties down because I usually want to play…

I can relate to that feeling. I had Demon’s Souls way back when they first released and the gameplay is soncountrr-productive for a short play. The fact it also had no pause that I could find.

Oh the RWD spin out is bleeeeeh.

Legend of Heroes: Trials of Cold Steel 2 has a heartbreaking moment early on where the main character (a male student) breaks down and cries as a close friend supports him. It's so super rare to see characters portray vulnerability, but it makes them so much richer.

It also seems wildly inconsistent, track-to-track. Trial Mountain: Reverse with the American Only mini-cup is pretty horrid. The first (well, last) S-bends have had the AI ram into me so often than it just starts to feel deliberate. One race, I swear every car I overtook was after me, like a grid of vengeful…