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1. Flintlock (this game is weird and I need other people to talk to about it)
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When does art critique become art? At what point is a work transformed enough by the people who engage that the engagement itself becomes a new creation? If art critique itself exists on a spectrum fr...
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Splitgate was fun. I know that it looked like Halo, but I always thought the character designs were more remiscient of equally doomed multi-player shooter Section 8. The monetization stuff in it wasn'...
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Unless I am seriously misunderstanding what these "cultural consultants" do, aren't they essentially just the video game equivalent of "sensitivity readers" for books? People who look at the story and...
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Incredible. A tweet in which every word leads to a feeling that's even worse than the previous word. What the fuck?
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The Witcher discussion in particular is a really interesting one because there are multiple factors that play into it. Objectively, we know that much of medieval Europe was more diverse (and unrelated...
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I like that "Drill Sergeant Fitness" guy's short videos on YouTube. Truly some hilarious stuff if you're familiar with the absurdity of military life. As far as I know, he doesn't express political op...
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I haven't finished this game and at this point I don't think I will before it leaves Game Pass (I was playing with my partner; we see each other usually 3 nights a week, and we often take a long time ...
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If I had a head for languages, I'd be a classicist.I find language fascinating. This is related to my love for history. How words work, interact, change, and continue being used is something that I am...
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This is the type of thing that you'd expect to see at a site like Waypoint or Kotaku, but even the people who write for those sites are not immune to the type of myth-making and hero worship that lead...
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I played that six hour long "closed beta" they had a month or two ago. I put that it quotes because it was really easy to get into, you just had to watch someone stream it on Twitch for a few hours. I...
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A few years ago, I read House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds. It's largely a murder mystery set against an extreme far future backdrop in which groups of essentially immortal humans traverse the galaxy ...
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Absolutely incredible writing and a great list. I immediately purchased Heaven's Vault (I am an historian with no skill for languages, and I love science fiction so this game seems like pure wish fulf...
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@shindig: I'm not saying they should be prevented from running it. I just think it's extremely shitty to do so.@bigsocrates:This is nothing like saying that the NYT is keeping government secrets. This...
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@bigsocrates said:No journalist has a responsibility to help a game company hide elements of its game. And while secrecy might make sense when you have a big twist most games aren't like that at all....
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@bigsocrates: Time and time again, we've seen developers get harassed when leaks like this happen. That isn't the fault of journalists, but it ought to be a consideration at the very least.I think the...
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I've been saying this for years--Jason Schreier even blocked me on Twitter for saying that reporting leaked/unfinished art was not journalism.
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I'll second this. They haven't been working for me for a couple of months at this point.
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Fan theories and reinterpretations tend to be uninteresting, uninformed, and frankly bad. Media literacy and critique is a real thing--and everyone's own experiences and values will change how they in...
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@bigsocrates: You're not the only one who feels that way. I played TLoU for the first time in 2020, as everyone was playing TLoU 2. It was an incredible game. But I felt like that was all I needed fro...
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