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First off, this is a report from Superherohype.com, so we should not take it terribly seriously. All they do is quote various "leakers", all of whom have spotty records. In this case it's DanielRPK, who has spectacularly wrong on many, many occasions. If you're very generous, he's right more...

Presumably he's referring to the fact that, for most of history, slavery hasn't been seen as an inherent ethnic trait, but rather something that could, theoretically, happen to anyone, with the ethnicity-justified chattel slavery of the USA, Caribbean and part of Latin America being an...

Were they? I'm not saying they weren't, but what's the position here, that they were explicitly and/or obviously based on say, multi-level racist depictions of, for example, Pygmy ethnic groups in Africa (surprisingly Pygmy is still the correct overarching term)? That's a case where local...

Nah, I had basically no idea that fight was coming, I really thought I was getting out of there, so was totally unprepared and barrel-free at the time, but Lae'zel was able to dispatch the pillars shockingly quickly with the right weapon (I forget what). I had to do the whole thing legit - which...

I don't think you deserved to be jumped on for disliking a popular game, but I am somewhat surprised that these are you specific critiques. I don't think you're even wrong per se, it's just that these aren't things that stood out as major issues to me or most people (except the path goddamn that...

Team: Seahawks. Reason: We've already had a bad year and it's only January, the Pats winning is only going to make it worse, so I gotta hope. Ugh I was watching that match, I remember. I usually watch the Superbowl, as a sort of hangover of the brief period in the late 1980s and 1990s when NFL...

Oh okay one more - and this isn't one I heard at the time, but Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, a fairly mediocre side-scrolling beat-em-up from 1994 kinda accidentally prefigured the entire Grime sound: This is perhaps a little less surprising when you consider the guy who did the soundtrack was...

I always love "OH MY GOD THEY'RE GOING TO SING!!!!" moments in games, and that is definitely one of the peak ones, especially as it's full pipe organ and choir backed. And yeah when the boss comes in, that's just Sephiroth boss fight level "Omg what is this YES YES YES" musically. (Possibly...

The extreme forms are, but there's huge overlap in the increasingly large middle. "RPG" in a videogame sense is quite a complex packet of traits. Like, mechanically, FFXII (the one where you can basically "program" the characters) has the potential to appeal to exactly the same sort of person...

You're seeming so mad about this lol, and it's just your vague and insubstantial explanations that have got you here!

It's kind of like, what games don't I like is maybe a shorter list than what kind do I like? And in any given genre, there will be loads of exceptions for me - like, I mostly don't like Eurogames, except the dozens and dozens I do like (which don't even seem to follow a pattern that I can...

Yes. BTTF2 is why we still talk about BTTF. If there was only the first movie, it would be like a minor '80s classic that a few people remember but was really Boomer/Greatest Generation nostalgia bollocks ("we invented the world"-type rubbish) even at the time. But BTTF2 was something much...

I feel like this is a distinction without a real difference when you're including Indiana Jones and The Dead, Mad Max and so on, all of which were essentially made as stand-alones with no specific intentions of further sequels or even exploring that subject further, and which all work as...

Yeah, it used to be a pretty common opinion, not one I personally held, but I think for a long time there was a pretty clear distinction between Western RPGs, which could be, as you correctly identify, boiled down to: WRPGs typically let you create at least one character (even if they had some...

He's an actor I've really turned around on. My initial reaction was "Ugh I hate this guy", because he played a series of intensely annoying twats and made sure to make them REALLY annoying and frustrating. But it was as an intensely annoying twat role he turned me around, which was The...

Same. A lot of actors I like involved, and er... Jared Leto, who is a giant red flag in human form. But the whole thing looks bland and sauceless as as hell, and the heavy use of cheap CGI is definitely part of that - it's both a difference in look and a difference in mindset. Even if you...

The medium might technically not, but movies don't "require" sound or colour - or a story, actually (Koyaanisqatsi etc.). The reality though is that virtually every game, even ones which wouldn't have 40 years ago (UGH TIME PAIN WHY MUST IT BE 40 NOT 20), does have a story of some kind, even if...

You are 100% effectively no-true Scotsmaning, whether you mean to or not. Caves of Qud, say, is not only an RPG, it's a better RPG by almost any measurement (even visual design!) than, for example, Fallout 4. The same is true of most or all true Rogue-likes. They all have implied settings...

This applies to literally any game which has any kind of story - and by "story" you mean "implied setting" even, so that's basically any game less abstract than Tetris. The reason people are confused is because of your second statement here - RPGs are no more their story than most games are...

Groan, thanks dad!