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- Comment on ‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war 3 days ago:
As in we need to stop it. It’s hard to read songs like O Green World and Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head in any other way.
- Comment on ‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war 3 days ago:
Damon Albarn is a dick but he’s usually been more on the right side of things than not. Demon Days is straight up an anti-climate change album.
- Comment on When you are startled by what you see 5 days ago:
No I’m telling you that you should probably look up what backshots are.
Instead of, you know, rawdogging terms you read but didn’t look up.
- Comment on When you are startled by what you see 5 days ago:
That’s not what backshots are
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 1 week ago:
They would have recouped faster if they had the foresight to publish the game on PC as well as PlayStation. Kojima Productions made money on Death Stranding pretty quick because the PC sales were very good. Sony only got it from PlayStation sales.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 1 week ago:
They were almost a monopoly, Xbox was circling the drain. Sony pulled the trigger too early.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not noble to find the nuances in child rape
- Comment on Video games 2 weeks ago:
No it isn’t, and you can’t name more because there’s no more of the ending of the first game in the second. The video I linked shows the hospital is still dingy and dirty throughout, and you’re coming back with a cropped screenshot.
- Comment on Video games 2 weeks ago:
Your idea of a retcon is that the hospital looks different in the sequel game in that tiny cutscene you see? It’s not even true, the hospital is still dirty and dingy.
You’re also claiming a character having a wishful opinion is a retcon.
There’s zero plot or story changes here too to even start making the assertion a retcon happened. How and why are you escalating to accusing the entire TLOU2 of being a fanfic because of two extremely minor things about the previous game, one of which isn’t even true.
- Comment on Video games 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call it “Walking Dead” style. If anything, it wears its Cormac McCarthy influences on its sleeve. The story is intentionally dreary, miserable, uncomfortable, and emotionally draining. Kotaku’s review of the game was pretty on the money for a lot of people, it’s entirely possible to be so put off by the tone and story of the game because it’s so miserable.
The thing is that you play as Ellie and then as Abby to get both perspectives on the story. The entire message of the game is that revenge and unending conflict a downward spiral of self-destruction. Joel gets done dirty… but so does everyone. That’s the whole point of the game.
- Comment on Video games 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you heard correctly, the Fireflies didn’t get retconned.
- Comment on Video games 2 weeks ago:
Did what in the second one? Made the stealth action more involved?
- Comment on Oh Shit 2 weeks ago:
I was just thinking the same. I remember when she was everywhere.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 3 weeks ago:
It was confirmed in Fire and Fury by Wolff that GamerGate was indeed Steve Gannon’s POC of MAGA.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 3 weeks ago:
Reviews and editorials never described as “gaming journalism” before GamerGate. The fact that Gamergate successfully convinced everyone that editorials and reviews can be called “journalism”, even people who opposed Gamergate, was their biggest victory.
GamerGate was a Steve Bannon POC for MAGA and it wasted no time in setting the stage for Lügenpresse by inappropriately using the term to describe opinion pieces they knew they could get angry young men to get outraged over to start getting people used to the idea of demeaning journalism as a whole. “MSM” was just the MAGA version of “gaming journalism”, but more refined since they realized with their POC that demeaning all “journalism” meant that any that they tried to spin up never got any traction because it was also “journalism”.
- Comment on Despite Steam's concerning domination over the market, one of the things that I love about it is... 3 weeks ago:
Gamergate was literally a proof of concept for MAGA because gamers are everything these groups want from a potential recruit. Just point them at a boogeyman and they’ll go apeshit.
- Comment on Low rating 5 weeks ago:
You gotta be socially inept to think there’s no irony there.
- Comment on Hopeposting 1 month ago:
The thing about comics is that many of them have been going on for so long, for so many different generations and audiences, that they actually handle all kinds of different perspectives depending on which stories you look at. A common theme for a long time is actually contrasting Superman against the Ubermensch idea from Nietsche and the Nazi’s bastardized version of it, which is what led to things like Homelander (and Stormfront) in the Boys. There have always been many different perspectives on Superman, his powers, and his morality. The morality of WW2-era Superman is pretty different from Silver Age is pretty different from DCAU is pretty different from Snyder’s Superman, etc.
There are quite a few books about the philosophy of Superman out there. You can start with Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do?, which is a compilation of academic essays analyzing Superman’s morality.
- Comment on Hopeposting 1 month ago:
If only there were decades worth of stories where Superman’s morality was defined and expanded upon to provide a reasonable template that lends to genuine analysis even in academic and philosophical studies.
- Comment on Don't be influenced 1 month ago:
Hey Guys Did you Know that the Song follows the Fibonacci sequence?
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 1 month ago:
Where are you getting these stories about who is getting bullied on college campuses for these reasons?
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 1 month ago:
It’s not a great excuse, no, but the lampshade was at least present.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 1 month ago:
He wasn’t disappointed, he was supposed to act disappointed. But he’s so dumb he thought that was a speech line and chose to yell it out.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 1 month ago:
There’s no way to have watched the movie and completely missed that her love for her dog is driving everything she does.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 1 month ago:
They said that moving Krypto would accelerate the poison so he would have died before they got to a yellow sun.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 month ago:
Wait when was the last time they were leveraged for $20B?
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 1 month ago:
TotK may as well be DLC for BotW, and Windwaker would have been more similar to those titles were it not for the technical limitations of the Gamecube.
You haven’t played ToTK at all. And what is this weird statement about WW supposed to prove about how the Switch games are the worst? Are you suggesting WW would have been the “worst” Zelda game if the GC had the power of a console that came 15 years later?
This isn’t even getting into how you’re going to need to show your work for how Zelda 2, Skyward Sword, some of the mobile entries, and that CD-i game are all better games than BotW or TotK.
You’re really gonna look at all those 3DS attempts to reboot the same NES game and tell me that’s not slop?
Yes. Things aren’t “slop” just because they’re not great. Otherwise most things in existence are slop. You haven’t thought this through.
Pokémon is seeing the worst quality of the whole franchise on Switch
You don’t know much about Pokemon games if you think the recent entries are the worst received generations.
apparently Pokémon Go was just to train military robots or some shit.
Pokemon Go is notably not a Switch game.
You’re really gonna look at 3DS models in a Switch game and tell me that’s not slop, my opinion is just wrong?
Yes. An uninformed opinion that misuses terms is a wrongly derived opinion.
Smash Ultimate’s online play has 11, ELEVEN frames of input lag under ideal circumstances, the metagame has been busted since Steve, DLC characters are OP, patches were promised, then canceled, and support is over now. You’re really gonna tell me that’s acceptable, totally not slop, my opinion just sucks?
Yes, the opinion of someone who forgot about Brawl isn’t worth much.
I hope you play Switch games forever, and I hope you love it.
This does not hit the way you think it does. Most people don’t have such an irrational hatred for the Switch that they’ve convinced themselves of a lot of untruths to justify their weird hatred.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 1 month ago:
The use of superlatives also don’t imply quality.
- Comment on Who was Trevor Moore 1 month ago:
If Jordan Peterson died falling drunkenly off a balcony, we’d all be making fun of him.
- Comment on Me_irl 1 month ago:
There are simpler ways to say that the PS3 was your first experience with gaming.