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This just affirms my opinion that Gears of War is fucking gay. Now I know admittedly very little about the series other than it having gorilla shaped humans fighting gorilla shaped aliens
 
While reading this, I felt the same vibe as another legendary piece of faggot journalism (a).

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This'll never get old, I swear.
Goddamn, this was so gay I think it almost turned me completely straight. Fucking hell, faggots and lesbos don't know how to take an inoffensive insult, much less a joke. Bastards and bitches need to get those poles out of their asses. Still better than troons and, god forbid, anyone who identifies in that Q+ cancer but that's not saying much.
 
That was pretty gay.

In all seriousness though, I'm in full agreement with the dude. Shooting the shit and having banter like that funnily enough can help tear down barriers between people. By not taking yourself too seriously, you generally feel a lot better about yourself and people around you.

Having people feel like they have to walk eggshells around you and try their best not to offend you I feel only isolates them from you funnily enough. Instead of seeing you as a fellow human, they see you as different and something that has to be handled differently.

At the end of the day, I think it's a lot easier to be at peace with yourself if you're willing to laugh at yourself and others.
 
Ars Technica put out an article praising Death Stranding for having a games journalism difficulty. It's the same tired argument of a "a book doesn't make you take a gatekeeping quiz to keep reading it!"
Meanwhile, Kotaku thinks fighting games need to be an olympic sport.

Speaking of Kotaku, Jason Schrier is still salty about not getting a review code for Borderlands 3.
Which I'm sure had no baring on Kotaku's decision to bash the game in there review of the first 6 hours of the game.
 
Ars Technica put out an article praising Death Stranding for having a games journalism difficulty. It's the same tired argument of a "a book doesn't make you take a gatekeeping quiz to keep reading it!"
It technically does. It's called reading comprehension, and it works the same way game difficulty does. If you read the book and can't understand the story or the themes are too much for you, it might not be for you. In the same way, a game's difficulty might be too high and its mechanics might be overwhelming, so it's not really for you.

I don't understand the whole book argument because it just shows the person making it doesn't spend a lot of time reading books outside their comfort zone. If anything it shows their reading habits resemble their video game skills.
 
Nigga lives in NYC but "dates" someone from Europe? Too gay to be gay, imo.
I think he was living in London and the boyfriend and the friends were in New York.

Goddamn, this was so gay I think it almost turned me completely straight. Fucking hell, faggots and lesbos don't know how to take an inoffensive insult, much less a joke.
That's why I liked the Atlantic article, because it was a gay guy talking about the importance of taking a joke, of being able to banter, and how that's actually an important part of socialising, especially for men. He explicitly says that he would have felt worse if they'd started pussy-footing around his sexuality and treating him differently rather than just incorporating it into their shit-talking.

Which made a really nice change from all the articles that talk about a scantily-clad woman or a particular word taken out of context as the same thing as assault and murder.
 
It technically does. It's called reading comprehension, and it works the same way game difficulty does. If you read the book and can't understand the story or the themes are too much for you, it might not be for you. In the same way, a game's difficulty might be too high and its mechanics might be overwhelming, so it's not really for you.

I don't understand the whole book argument because it just shows the person making it doesn't spend a lot of time reading books outside their comfort zone. If anything it shows their reading habits resemble their video game skills.
There's technically nothing stopping you from reading the last chapter of a book first, but you won't understand what's going on.
If journalists just want to see the story/cutscenes, they can watch a lets play, but they find that to be unacceptable.
This is going to be like Astral Chain where the mainstream games press only plays on the easiest mode.
 
Ars Technica put out an article praising Death Stranding for having a games journalism difficulty. It's the same tired argument of a "a book doesn't make you take a gatekeeping quiz to keep reading it!"

They've obviously never tried to read Finnegans Wake or Gravity's Rainbow.

Speaking of Kotaku, Jason Schrier is still salty about not getting a review code for Borderlands 3.
https://archive.li/HXpdwWhich I'm sure had no baring on Kotaku's decision to bash the game in there review of the first 6 hours of the game.
https://archive.li/NaIgZ

I was wondering why Cucktaku shit on a game that should be right up their alley. I was wondering if they'd found some tiny speck of journalistic ethics. I should have known it was petty spite of some sort instead.
 
Ars Technica put out an article praising Death Stranding for having a games journalism difficulty. It's the same tired argument of a "a book doesn't make you take a gatekeeping quiz to keep reading it!"
This is dumb because there are children's mystery books that actually quiz you in order for you to solve the mystery.
 
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