richard_buttz

@lumpofdeformity: I agree with you wholeheartedly about the Joel thing! In my mind, TLOU was never Joel's game, even if you spent the majority of the game playing as him. The prerelease discourse surr...

@kashbocks: @lumpofdeformity: I'm not arguing with you about how the game presents Ellie as the only possibility for a cure. I agree with you there. I also agree with you that Joel is a bad guy and go...

@draugen: I think there are quite a few interesting places one could go when looking at how players internalize the game, and the point you make about intentions is a good one. Abby's father, Joel, Ab...

@lumpofdeformity:Justifying the murder of an unconscious child on an experiment that, as you admit yourself, would probably amount to nothing is a hell of stance to take. Further endorsing the violent...

@smurfbearpig: She wasn't raised as a WLF. It's actually the subject of a pretty big flashback. She was a Firefly until her teens, presumably under less murder-y circumstances considering how torn up ...

@ryno9881: I completely agree! At times, the game's desperate attempts to craft parallels between Abby and Ellie become its biggest fault, and is a large cause of the "cheese." Yet for all of its atte...

@nnickers: Yeah, it's pretty pathetic. I expect more out of GB users than parroting the gamers as a victimized community narrative that runs wild in other parts of the web.

@bladeofcreation: Shhhhhhhh. Apparently it's inappropriate to even reference it. After all, one may be reminded of a totally unrelated candidate and the mean online socialists who made fun of your tat...

Jan stating that you only get one character in Slay the Spire triggered me.

I think it's probably a function of:A) every single person on staff having played itB) the continued repetition that the game is thinWhen you have a prolonged conversation about good and bad things in...

I don't think anything was spoiled, aside from the specifics of one delivery.I wish that Death Stranding had enforced a really strict embargo though, because it feels like this game has been covered s...

Too many rules