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@ajayraz: it kinda is, I mostly only watch East content now but its becoming increasingly uncomfortable and less fun.

@drew327: yeah, in spite of this game being far more "action" oriented and PUBG being a bit... clumsy.. to put it mildly that game was still somehow so much more interesting to watch than this.

Edit: i mean i get why, its tension, i feel zero tension with this.

I'm not too pressed either way but I'd really like to see how the Xen stuff plays out this way, a way probably not nearly as many of us have yet seen! It's interesting that the series is sold on its "choices" but by and large most fans are in agreement of creating a perfect playthrough canon at least for the first go around. I do wonder if that's a weakness in the format, the writing of alternatives storylines or both.

@conrad148: I think it's more of an indictment of how US & UK have a shared regional interest and shared mass culture which expresses both their external and internal repression in such a hackneyed way for those beginning to get engaged it seems virtually identical.

@jodokus_k

But at least Abby attempted to express a fledgling concern on western (US & UK) imperialism, something more Americans should have started doing ages ago. There exists a vast bourgeois media apparatus inventing reality for USians every day via anything from pundits to the heavily curated "true testimonials" from troops (some want to pass off as a neutral "factual" account) to these games that want to only "give voice" to marines and those that collaborate. You're fine to say what you want, but no way can you expect to convince people outside the MANY already conveted that it's somehow brave or there is a profound way to indulge the NATO bloc's propaganda. If anyone is actually curious Francis Saunder's books on the Cultural Cold War can give you that detailed insight you might seek into the "art" Americans are to indulge (and for whose benefit) than the controlled leaks breadcrumbed cleverly for us in fake oppositional things like No Easy Day, Zero Dark Thirty, and yes Call of Duty.

If Borderlands 3 is "more than a 4 player shooter" (meaning like Destiny & Division) my group is out.

Probably not breaking new ground in saying it looks like a slightly more interesting version of Destiny. It does look like a bit of a mess but it's always interesting to me how with Jeff especially the less ambition a shooter seems to have the more he enjoys it. Something like the Division 2 seems excruciating in every way but he seems right at home with it whereas here it seems like he is having his teeth pulled every second. Just need someone to make a loot shooter idle game lol.

Anyway props to all the accounts calling out the "its just fun" crowd for what this actually always is ffs.. Done with all this.

"inject politics" lol how long are people going to keep pretending this is an honest statement?