“We got your labor; you got a paycheck. Now fuck off so we can make the profit from what you made”.

Ain’t capitalism just grand? /s

Not really. It’s actually pretty good. Microsoft just did jack all to market it for some reason.

It also did have some controversy at the start.

First is because of a granular difficulty customization, down to even having a slider to slow or increase the speed of the game itself. Some elitists got butt hurt over it.

Second is that it is a slower pace overall compared to the experience that 2016 and Eternal were. So, when it didn’t play like people expected, it caused some friction.

Oh also, Microsoft forced it to be $70. So a lot of gamers just didn’t buy it out of principle.

Been out for almost a year and just received a new DLC a few weeks ago.

Every day I’m finding it harder and harder to disagree with those who say we just need to burn everything in this society to the ground.

This just ignores that being concerned about spoilers has existed for longer than modern marketing strategies. People have been concerned about having their first-time experience with a piece of media spoiled since at least the 50s. The end credits to Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 film Les Diaboliques includes a card with an early anti-spoiler message from the director. Similarly, Alfred Hitchcock asked audiences not to reveal the ending of his 1960 thriller Psycho, saying “Please don’t give away the ending, it’s the only one we have.” The term “spoilers” itself in that context has been around since the 70s.

People still cared about having the story of certain story-rich games spoiled way before games were able to be patched after the fact and it became normal to ship out a buggy, unfinished mess.

It’s simply that some people care about having an untarnished first experience and feeling that wow moment of a plot twist being revealed in the way it was intended. That’s all there is to it. It isn’t some hairbrained conspiracy

And , I’ll be the first for you. I’ve only read Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit once because I find it incredibly boring to re-read a story that I have already read before because I know how the story goes already. I would much rather read something new than go back and re-read something.

It is very shortsighted phrasing that only serves to tell people that we shouldn’t engage in violence for the sake of self defense because “it just makes more violence”.

When in reality, it is just a way to tell people to sit down and accept the violence being committed against them by the system as normal and that rising up against it is somehow an immoral act.

Apples and Oranges mate. Such a shortsighted view to boil down all of the nuances behind the systemic reasons that people engage in political violence down to just “violence begets violence”.

The right-wing assassin is a direct result of the Republican’s brand of vitriolic, jingoist rhetoric that tries to convince its cult that the country is “being invaded by evil foreigners”. Not because of the death of one CEO. His murder wasn’t anything special other than it got an exaggerated amount of media coverage because he was rich.

Either way, America has been on this course for far, far longer then Luigi has even been alive. His alleged actions did not cause this. This story isn’t “just beginning”, it began almost a century ago and is now reaching its climax.

And, just for the record, I still proudly cheer for the death of scum like that insurance CEO. He deserved so much worse than the quick death he was given. Who did commit the act is a hero for the people.