They are reading the room, and it’s making them a shit ton of money.

One of my favorite things to do is find articles about entertainment products that bore me and make a comment about how I don’t enjoy them. They aren’t products that make me mad, or that I think are ethically problematic in some way. They’re just things that don’t personally appeal to me, and I need to make sure that…

Great comment, thanks for contributing. 

Look, these are the same writers that ripped off a famous line from Scarface, and then made it worse and more cumbersome.

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Name checks out. The only sort of person who would want to try this.

Oh, so you’re not, like, a cool or interesting person. Can Elon interest you in a Twitter Blue account, perchance?

You will absolutely not buy and play this. You’re posting entirely for clout and it’s terminally lame.

Like, the game is about how you are a big bad government agent and you have the rescue that President’s daughter from zombies. With those parameters in place, Ashley feels much fuller and well rounded. She speaks her mind. (There is a great exchange in the sewer where she essentially states that trudging through human…

I always feel these opinions are a very particular form of immaturity. You cannot simply like a thing, the thing has to be complex, characters need rich inner lives, with a clear political stance, and an aesop about the human experience at the end. Otherwise they are narrative failures and bad.

I will also add that this franchise in general isn't one you point to for deep complex characters or award winning writing.  I mean Chris Redfield is best known for punching a boulder during a fight with discount Matrix Man.  In the original RE4 Leon is just quips and a haircut.  I adore Lady Dimitrescu in RE8 but…

I can accept the premise that Ashley in the 2005 original was little more than a gameplay feature, and her characterization is not deeper than that. It was a fault, but a fault of its time.

This is maybe one of the top five worst takes ever posted on Kotaku.

I don’t see the problem with her in this remake.  She starts out very much afraid and unconfident, as she should be since she’s an untrained young woman going through a severely traumatic experience.  And then through the small actions she takes she’s able to gain back some of that confidence and sees Leon as someone…

That's a no from me. Her characterization was vastly improved and she felt like a much more rounded person. 

Sigh, no red underwear? Embrace it people! Gunn better deliver on that. 

So, I am going to actually give Bloys the benefit of the doubt about the phrase “that’s a very online conversation here” because of what comes after: “very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into.”

If this is satire, I don’t get it. If it’s honest, then man, that just sucks for you. 

I mean, Lovecraft was an outright racist and inserted it into all of his works yet he’s still got his cthulhu groupies, and his stuff continues to inspire new media. Heck, you can google his name and it’s rarely (or briefly) brought up these days. What does that say?

You seem fun. It’s like a film industry easter egg and most people don’t even know it’s a thing or that it has a name.  Odd thing to get in your feelings about.