"You know" is a much more intelligible phrase than the likes of uhms, ahs, likes, and other such off repeated noise the inarticulate make to fill dead air. I don't have a problem with it. What I do find annoying though is that Brad has a need to constantly interrupt when someone is speaking only for him to lose his words mid-sentence. Poor form if you ask me. When Ryan was podcast host he'd walk all over Brad like a doormat and never let him butt in and you'd witness the dying squawks of a man so eager to make his opinions known. Super awkward and make for a tense and unnerving atmosphere. I know many friends who are put into the same position as Brad and many friends who don't have the patience to deal with those types of interruptions. I can see the social ladder building itself as the wroth characters surge above the more timid. It gets me anxious, like I should be doing something about it to stop it. Gah, how can you hate Brad? Don't you have a heart?
Good reviews sell, bad reviews don't. Negativity starts to flood in when it's allowed to do so. So here we are.
Personally, I'm a fan of deep, thoughtful, retrospective criticism. It's the only way to objectively judge a game. Criticism avoids the rose-tinted glassy eye effect that some people seem to get when they look back at a game. What good has nostalgia ever done other than to please its author? I don't want to read that bullshit.
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