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@liquidprince: I don't disagree with the premise that you can have strong female characters who are feminine or maternal, but I think a woman thanking her child for trying to kill her and getting enraged when you stop him is an awful way to illustrate that character's maternal nature.

I think claiming anyone, except possibly Dan who seems to have no clue what was happening in the story, had a fundamental understanding of the women in that game is incorrect and insulting. If you go back and look at the discourse around this game when it came out, this was one of the most frequently brought up criticisms and was written about extensively. It isn't something that some of the staff just invented for the GOTY discussions.

Faye isn't a character, she is the implication that at one point there was a character and the idea that she is a strong female character because there are implications that she knows what would come out of her husband and son's journey is nonsense.

As for Freya, I honestly liked her for a lot of the game and thought the had a lot of room to make her a strong and dynamic character, which is what makes that ending such a total bummer. The strangling scene plays off a long history of imagery of violence against women in media. And the way the the whole ending is presented, for me at least, removed any subtly or intrigue around her character in favor of some ham fisted point that Mom's can be just as shitty as dad's, just in different ways.

All your points are just rehashing exactly what the game tells you, like you assume no one else was paying attention to it's explanation. But that isn't problem. The problem is that the games's explanations for the actions of its very, very few female characters are often bad or half baked and none of them are actually written as strong characters.

I know there is a lot of hidden depth to the existing system, but I would love to see a completely new battle system. I've always thought it could be something like a grid based 1 on 1 tactical battling system that sought to replicate the way Pokemon fights work in the show (or at least how I remember them working), where there is more of an element of positioning and dodging. Honestly, I would be happy with any new take on battles, because it just feels like the part of the games that has seen the fewest updates in the 20+ year history of the series.

The Last Jedi is an excellent film and anyone who thinks otherwise is a gross fuckboi, who can't believe that someone had the audacity to do a Star Wars thing that was significantly different then the Star Wars thing they would have done. 75% of the complaints about that movie boil down to racism or misogyny and the other 25% are utterly pedantic bullshit and I will fight anyone who thinks they aren't.

For anyone questioning whether or not there is a huge problem with the timing in the last episode, you should read this: https://www.google.com/amp/variety.com/2017/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-6-beyond-the-wall-timeline-director-1202534403/amp/

The director of the episode literally confirms that they knew the timing made no sense, but didn't give a shit. Also his reasoning is essentially, we knew the people who just want to see dragons so cool shit wouldn't care, and we don't care about the fans of the smart story this used to be at all, so it's fine.

Austin getting Invisible Inc. on the top ten through the sheer power of his argument for it is probably my single favorite moment on this site and to me represents everything I love about this site. It honestly depresses me how many people rip on that every time one of these threads come up.

God, this episode was the worst. I think the only part I liked was the conversation between Tormund and the hound about Brienne. I started watching this show in season 5, after it got past where the books left off because I wanted to know what was going to happened to the character's I had become so invested in and I am regretting that decision intensely. Next weeks episode is going to have to be nothing short of the greatest hour of television in history for me to have any interest in watching the last. Without the support of GMMR's writing, every character suddenly feels like a stupid, impulsive child. I cared about these characters because he writes them as intelligent, well rounded people with interesting and deep motivations, so even when they do stupid things or make terrible choices you understand why. Now every choice they make is dumb and the reasons behind them are even dumber. This all just makes me extra hope that Confederate is an unwatchable shit show from moment one, so Benioff and Wiess can be written off by Hollywood as the super lucky hacks they probably deserve to be remember as.

@jesus_phish: I don't think this is an dumb or unreasonable opinion at all. More and more Randy Pitchford comes off as a pretty awful guy who constantly seems to be doing things to undermine the success of Gearbox.

Until now, I didn't know that I could find a video game announcement legitimately upsetting. No one has ever liked Bubsy. Why would anyone do this?

I don't think its a pun. I think they are just two vaguely similar sounding Japanese word pairings. Shiruko is a Japanese dessert.