Brad is the best writer on this site by a long shot. The way he explains his thoughts and experiences on games is so good. Great list and great writing.
Just got to the part where @benpack and @jeff are talking about self driving cars making moral choices. You guys are sorely misinformed on this topic and spreading alarmist news. The cars are not being coded to consider which people to spare or hit.
What you're referencing was a research study conducted out of MIT as a thought experiment. No car company is currently programming their AIs to make these sorts of decisions or conducting studies to see how they "should" program their AIs. If anything, I believe that the manufacturers will code cars to minimize damage to the owner above all.
Alex made such a great case for what makes Yakuza 0 great. Whereas Vinny and Abby's argument for Dream Daddy is "it does things other dating sims don't do", but then in the very next sentence Abby says that she hasn't played any other dating sims. - are they being serious? How the fuck did that game end up on this list? Alex and Yakuza were fucking robbed.
Man, Brad always brings his A game to these discussions. Love hearing what he has to say on games.
The discussion about Horizon at the end caught me off guard. I didn't ever think that game had any elements of cultural appropriation to it. That thought never crossed my mind in all my time with the game. I would really prefer for them to list more explicit examples of the appropriation they speak of.
They're making me rethink my impression of Horizon. It didn't seem like they had any specific examples though, they just "felt" that way about it. And if it was really so bad and really did have cultural appropriation, then why did almost the entire staff play the game and feature it in GOTY deliberations if it has such things as cultural appropriation? I mean, this doesn't seem very Native American to me, but I could be wrong
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