One, Ryan said he was close to enjoying Riff Raff unironically.
Two, there's no such thing as "enjoying something ironically," there's just not having the confidence to like what you like.
Not with you on this one. For me, the term *enjoying it ironically* means enjoying things that are bad in a way I enjoy - aka *Guilty Pleasure*. I know it's bad, but that's what makes it good. The irony of this circumstance is what makes it a fitting saying.
It's just the lastest hipster superiority complex, being too good to enjoy the irony of something - at least that's how I see it.
P.S. just listening to Riff Raff's favorite band on Spotify right now, Little Dragon - and I like it. The man has a taste for sure, and that's what he's selling.
I have a similar view of it. I think of enjoying something ironically as liking something in a different way than it was intended to be enjoyed. It's not insincere enjoyment, but it subverts the intentions of the creator.
Though I'm not sure if Ryan's enjoyment actually subverts Riff Raff's intentions or plays right into them. It does seem like that guy is in on the joke.
Also, does anyone else think Riff Raff looks like a weird mix of Vinny and Garrett Hunter?
It's always a risky thing for a developer to draw too much attention to a game in early alpha. People check it out, get frustrated when it isn't done as much as they like, put it aside. Eventually the game comes out for real, but all the excitement has already been soured by their prior experience with the unfinished version of the game.
Obviously that's not always the case. If you go into things with realistic expectations you'll probably be just fine. Most people just aren't really looking for the alpha (i.e. buggy, unfinished, unbalanced) experience.
That said, after watching the quick look, I'm on board. Is $30 too much for the average consumer these days? Maybe. I'm a bad judge of that, as I'm a person with more expendable income than sense.
I was always substantially behind the level cap for the whole time I played WoW, so I was perpetually running around a world devoid of people. I was technically in a guild, but not being at a level at which I could make myself useful, I had almost no contact with the other folks in the guild. When I hit level 64 just as Wrath of the Lich King came out, I just gave up. I had a subscription for around three years or so, but I just could never put in enough time to level up enough to get a chance to raid or do PVP. I don't think I even had a chance to play an instance past level 40, because there just weren't enough other people around at my level.
Or maybe it just died from malnutrition/poison/disease? Or maybe the mutation was going to cause nothing but lifelong intense pain for the child and they did it a favor?
I don't think that you can immediately jump to conclusions about any decisions in a world like Metro's based on as little evidence as "mutated baby's head in a cement barrel". They might have considered ending its misery the humane thing to do in the face of pain, suffering, and uselessness - I doubt a place like Metro has the room for a person that can't contribute anything.
...sorry, I just finished reading "The Road", and the ideal is never present in that book.
I'm pretty sure "buried in cement" doesn't count as a mercy killing.
Doesn't the US government already have the fingerprints of everyone with a driver's license or state-issued ID? Or is that on a state-by-state basis? I distinctly remember being fingerprinted at the DMV in California. They also have a photo of my face, obviously. I never hear anyone complaining about that.
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