No-one probably even needs to read the piece to guess what the grand spoiler could be. I gave up on reading Marvel/DC comic books simply because I got tired of the franchise mandating the storytelling: major players cannot die in service of the story, because that would not make economical sense.

spoken like a person who’s never had to work a food service job. 

These guys are like what it feels like after you read Catcher in the Rye as a 15 year old but instead of lasting for half an hour it's forever. 

It’s truly hard for me to imagine looking at a world full of busy people going about their lives and think that something’s wrong with them because they’re not paying more attention to me.

“I do not condone suppression of speech and access to information.”

I think “condone” might be the wrong word here, you’re not a permanent member of the UN security council, and this is leaked information about a car stealing game, not human right abuses in wartime.

I do not condone suppression of speech and access to information.

what im getting from this is that in order to see more behind the scenes footage of game development and a better understanding on how triple a games are produced, we need to generate takes so nightmarishly bad that developers will have no choice but to dunk on them

Arkham Asylum came out in 2009. The fundamentals of sexual harassment policy and basic workplace ethics had been in place by then. I agree social attitudes have moved forward since then but “Don’t comment on your female coworker’s body parts” was pretty firmly established as a bad thing at this point.

i should add that the guy in the unboxing video, john alvarado, also has a very interesting social media presence

If you are on the fence on this game the demo is long as hell. Like two hours of the game. It’s a real good demo that will either suck you in or tell you it’s not your thing.

Does anyone else know that the proper term is “card sharp” in British English, but “card shark” in American English?  

I’ll honestly be surprised if it isn’t announced on Sunday. All those leaks throughout the year and now the achievement list shows up on the official xbox website?

But what about those goldeneye achievements!!!!!!!!

“I looks like standard CW fare,”

I cannot imagine the mindscape of the person that this would bother.

You’re missing so, so many other good tweets from this.

I prefer the Texas Cheesecake Repository

Any word on if they’re bring back important Arkham series features like being constantly called a ‘bitch’ while playing as a female character modelled like a sex doll?