Joe_McCallister

@vampire_chibi: it's not about who is more racist than the other - it's not really a contest. It's just that I'm over the point in my life where I find dropping words like that edgy or funny just because he used it. The conversation on the bombcast was pretty good if you haven't had a chance to listen to it - they break down a time when Ryan had a moment, but expressed true remorse and said something along the lines of "context doesn't matter with a word that has the baggage associated with that word". I'm not saying that PewDiePie goes out and drops n-bombs or believes in his heart that white is right. I'm saying that he at the very surface thinks that using that word is ok - his mind went there in a reflexive moment so he thought either it'd be funny, or he uses that word in conversation/chat when just messing around with his buds. Fine for them - they can talk however they want, but like I said I'm a 31 year old white dude and though the word itself doesn't hold the baggage and gravity for me that it does for others, I get at least a piece of it, and I'm totally fine not being around that. If I had a buddy drop one in a game like PUBG, it wouldn't be silence - I'd come back with a "alright cool it, that's not alright". I'm not saying that his blurt there on the stream is sending me into "what a racist piece of shit" territory either - to me it just came across in a way that was illustrative that I've completely split from his style. That's not to say he or I don't both change taste/maturity/tolerance for any of that in the future, because who knows - tastes change.

The bombcast guys did point out something that I missed where Pewds drops the bomb, then calls the guy an asshole - which is a weird almost equivalence he's making - that's where it gets a little probing and could be looking too far into intent garnered from what was said, but it was a weird moment all around. The gist is, I wasn't watching him before, and after seeing his flippant use I probably won't - because that's not my speed. I watch and follow those that I identify with or enjoy, and if you're cool with it - solid.

Personally, if you think that addressing the American aversion to the word, feel free but I would hope that it'd be eloquent and a defensible argument and that if there's disagreement, it breeds respectful discussion - not just "why u so offended?". I'm always interested to hear other sides and uses, I've seen the iDubbz video and I think he does a decent job of explaining his view and use of the word - I just don't see the need to ever use that word. It might just be my age and surroundings showing through but I liken it to the fact that my dearest friends are gay, and if I were to use the words I used growing up that were "normal" in Iowa around them, I'd feel like a shitty person.

I get you on Fallout - I can see how it didn't really launch things forward especially the way FO3/NV did as well as Skyrim from the old ES games. I think I just looked past that, I actually liked Fallout quite a bit personally, it didn't have that same sense of awe and exploration that FO3 and NV did for me but I also am a bit older now so my interests in roaming the landscape to snipe Radscorpions is declining while my interest in the branching factions etc. is a little higher.

This is where I'm at - GCU does a good job of providing value - that 20% off even on sale items and regardless of time since launch is nice. Getting new games at $48 is cool but the sale stuff is where it's really at. I've even seen some of their PC stuff qualify - and they just ship a box with a code in it, so you're getting a digital copy anyway. I did Destiny 2 digital because it was easy and I wanted to preload...only to wait like a day after launch to play anyway. There was something really nice about it loading without me having to pop in a disc, press "ok" a few times and let it install then download an update. I'm kind of between the two, methods though.

For sure - especially because I know what it is - for some reason when Noire first came out, I expected it, as a Rockstar game to be a bit more GTA. I still loved it, and it wasn't without jank but it just took a minute of "oh...oh...ok well neat" and I hadn't played anything fairly close to that. It was almost an adventure game - I'm actually interested to see how the Vive missions come out.

This doesn't really affect my thoughts on Firewatch or Campo Santo that much personally, but Jeff hit a nail on the head with PewDiePie during the Bombcast that I've applied to a few things recently - "Maybe that's just who he is". There was a point where I'd watch some PewDiePie stuff and find it a little funny but I was never fully bought in - the last controversy ~6 months ago was stupid, ridiculous, and completely his own fault - but he said he'd learn or whatever - either way I wasn't consuming any of his content in 2017 anyway. Well then he does this and it just kind of put the nail in the coffin and illustrated who the dude is.

If this were a game company repeatedly showing me that they're just slimy and gross without remorse or an empathetic effort at correcting, that's where the line gets drawn. There's that quote about "if someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - and while I tend to believe in second chances, there's some truth there. Your part about Bethesda/Fallout is a good one - because you've learned "well Bethesda doesn't put out a flawless product day one" and that is who they are to you (and arguably just who they are in general). For me, I love their product enough to get it day one but I know the risks and what will probably be there.

The only time I've actually been burned bad enough to stop buying hasn't really been a burn - it's more of a lack of iteration. Mass Effect Andromeda hurt pretty freaking bad - and has me cautious of any and all Bioware products going forward, Anthem included. I stopped buying Madden, The Show, FIFA, and Call of Duty every year because I just didn't see the benefit - I can get COD later (my rule is basically if Jeff has a lot of positivity on it like Advanced Warfare, it'll be good), and I can deal with buying a sports game either on sale, or on EA Access/Origin Access at a later date.

I think you've got a point - I was a little bit taken back by Campo Santo's actions at first but after thinking a bit more on it, and hearing the guys' thoughts on the cast I was a bit more understanding. I think there will always be extreme cases on the side of streamers and dev/publishers - in the cases of DMCA takedowns (Jim Sterling for example) there's a case to be made for critique and as they mentioned on the show "transformative works" and it all really does come down to there not being a true precedent. It also comes down to a degree of transformation - I would expect that if I made two streams - one with me chatting and commenting over or maybe party chatting/discording with a group of people - and another that was a full playthrough of just the game I would fully expect the latter to get taken down. It's really just a murky area and until we have a precedent and then challenges to that precedent it's going to be a bit wild west. There will be developers that pull down things they shouldn't, and streamers that think putting a frame of them watching something and "reacting" while it's really just the game being played. I think where it gets weird is breaking down what games and why - streaming a multiplayer match is much different than campaign content. Streaming a game like Firewatch is miles apart from Destiny.

@pezen: With AC I think it's part of my history buff coming through and getting to walk through London or the colonies is really cool - but at some point I think I get Ubisoft fatigue where there's just a ton of stuff on the map and I'm not quite in the "plow through the narrative" or "make your gang stronger/hunt something/etc." With your "not playing past novelty stage" I think that's just it - I realized that I have issues with games where I hit this certain point and I ask myself "why am I even doing this any more". Example being Destiny 1 - played a ton of vanilla and liked it quite a bit but at a certain point I realized I was just shooting stuff and getting engrams but didn't have an end goal in mind and couldn't articulate why I was even playing. I think that's where I am with my purchasing process - "why am I even buying this" is a legit question I've started asking and for the first time it's started to actually make me refrain from buying.

@pyromagnestir: haha! Your posting of my own writing made me realize that my "wife loves me/I love her" line looks super weird but was meant to convey the fact that she wants to spend a lot of time with me - which is really hard to be bummed about. How's the degree coming? I'm only now getting into some prerequisites that will finally get me into some hard nose programming and concepts of CS. I was out of school for 10 years before said wife told me basically "you should go back" and part of that road has been basically starting from 0 credit hours. I've actually had some fun with history, philosophy, and communication courses. I think part of my problem was admitting that having my backlog was an actual thing I wanted to tackle instead of something that was funny to tell people I had 150+ games I hadn't touched...yikes saying that now makes me realize that's just $$$ sitting there.

@guitargod: That's the point I'm looking to get to I think - there are certain must-haves for me. Read Dead 2, Destiny, Cyberpunk 2077 - the games that I know I'll spend maybe the extra to get a cool collector's edition, but I'll also probably put 100+ hours in each of those. They end up being 1 maybe 2 of those monsters a year, but I've honestly been surprised going back through my PSN library of free/PS+ games and thought "man I should finish Until Dawn - I loved the few hours I put in" with the same thoughts about stuff like Transformers, or Infamous Last Light/Second Son.

@cronstintein: Yeah I've heard of but haven't visited the subreddit too much myself but I may have to swing over once I get back to some of my backlog. I like your approach though - I do think it's important to support those games that are truly something you hold dear. Something like Divinity: Original Sin 2 could probably use all the support they can get, where the games on my list up there are more AAA releases that will have plenty of marketing and push behind them no matter what. Let me know what you think of D:OS2!! I still have the first on my wishlist, for some reason have been patient with that one when I know I should just pick it up.

sideways and violently.

Vinny for me - when I found out how much he loved Sleeping Dogs and broken games, I knew we were kindred gaming spirits.

@artisanbreads: as someone that came to the site in a post-Ryan world, I always respected him but never truly appreciated him. Would old Bombcasts be the way to go if I wanted to try to get a bit of a lens? I joined premium around Metal Gear Scanlon 2 so I'm well behind but sometimes the Tuesday/Friday schedule of casts is spaced out just enough that I finish and don't have much else to listen to so I check out other sites/unrelated non-gaming casts.