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Right, I know I shouldn't be worked up about it. I just, I dunno. I actually loved DA:I where I thought I would hate it, so I'm maybe a little more passionate about it than I should be.

I'm kind of perplexed about him winning best new character of 2014. There was almost nothing interesting about him at all. I like to switch up my party members and enjoy their banter, and he was so boring that I ended up never really using him.

I feel like Blackwall was a really strong one. Especially in his dynamic with Sera. He's the tired, middle aged veteran lifer with a weary and kind of resigned outlook on things, and he tries to connect with Sera using humor but they just don't get each other's jokes. Nonetheless, he's good natured about it.

Dorian was also a good character. He's a cynical highborn mage that nonetheless seems distrustful about magic and it's never really easy to guess which decisions he's going to approve of.

Iron Bull is just the big guy who likes killing and fucking things. What's so interesting about him?

I think what bothers me is there was no real discussion about him as a choice. It was just "oh, yeah he sounds pretty cool. Let's make him the winner."

@jumbs: Has nothing to do with video games or people who play them. It's about a bunch of psycho shit heads who spend too much time on the internet and get too angry about things that don't matter.

It's not grammatically incorrect, but it is ambiguous and often leads to confusion. It's best avoided unless the author can really establish to the audience who it is they're talking about. See what I mean?

Censorship for the sake of appeasement of the morally outraged has never, ever worked out for the better in a society. I'd say the best thing to do is the waiting period for commenting. That way, you're not censoring people with things to say, you're preventing people without things to say from fanning the fire for fun.

That, or make everybody sign an agreement to not take everything they see and read on the internet personally.

If you think change is going to happen in the bowels of video game forums and replies to posts on Twitter, I've got good news for you pal. Change happens through action. And it usually happens in real life, where people aren't calling other people names so much.

That's like saying that the really loud yappy dogs will be the downfall of canines. It's just a bunch of noise.

It was just typical internet drama. A bunch of strangers getting way too mad at each other over nothing.

Nobody is going to be thinking about this a week from now.

I like this stuff because it's a fun dramatic diversion from all of my problems in real life. As a 30-something white guy, I understand that I am almost universally hated by everybody, but I've got some major things going on right now. I need to find a job ASAP. I need to convince my grandma to go to the hospital and get an MRI because those voices she's hearing aren't real. My small family is suddenly half the size it was a year ago and I haven't really let myself grieve over it yet.

So when I get a chance to watch a bunch of strangers whose biggest problems in life are convincing other strangers on the internet that they're right about whatever moral issue they want to be right about, there's little chance that I'm not going to have fun with it.

All of that being said, I don't see any reason to think that the people at Giant Bomb did anything wrong here, and I am really uncomfortable at the notion that there are people trying to drag them under the bus professionally. I understand that it's not going to have consequences, and will ultimately be forgotten about within a few days like every other internet conflict. But still, I think there's a line that shouldn't be crossed when a bunch of kids on the internet want to yell at each other.