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I'll probably just play the regular game again, I still have to get all those damn E-Books for my platinum!

I loved Resident Evil 6!

@rainvillain said:

Hey! Yeah, I only said that because it was what the girl Mike (Gabe) from Penny Arcade was talking to said, that she'd be offended or hurt to know he thought of her as a man.

I may be really ignorant about all of this. But it all just seems really silly to me.

The most contact I've had with a transgender person was Carolyn Petit from Gamespot. And that is to say: I've never had real contact with a transgender person, but I listen to her almost every week on their podcast and follow her on twitter. I really respect her as a journalist and would have no problem at all treating her as a woman. But it is really stupid to me if she'd get offended to know that, in the back of my mind, I'd be knowing she wasn't born that way.

This is not by any means a perfect analogy, but a bald person is in their right to try and fight to be treated as if they had hair, if they want to. And if they do that long enough, they are likely to get treated that way by most of their peers. Should they be offended that people know that they are actually bald? Should people who think "if you don't have hair, you're bald" be treated as monsters?

I'm REALLY open to discussion about this, because as I said, I don't have much life experience on the subject. But it does seem silly.

You could read "The Road" which was the main inspiration for The Last of Us, as stated by Neil Druckmann. Or, as I learned in @markwahlberg's thread, "Earth Abides", which deals with similar themes and has it's main character directly referenced in the game (the whole Ish side story).

You could also read the Last of Us comics. They tell Ellie's story before meeting up with Joel, and are pretty cool.

Neil Druckmann always said the biggest inspiration was The Road. But cool to see that the whole Ish side story was such a direct reference.

I approve of that if only to get more Nolan North on my Naughty Dog. Took me a while to recognize him as David!

Oh my god, this is the beast thread. I love you guys.

The whole Vince Zampella and Jason West getting fired from Infinity Ward thing. Good old G4 days and the Feedback podcast with Sessler, Patrick and Abbie Heppe, which now works for Zampella on Titanfall. Weird, right?

God damn it. Now I'm sad we'll never gonna see that.