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Ubisoft Are Deservingly Imploding
Ubisoft have been rewarded for mediocrity over the last decade or so but it seems their house of cards is now collapsing.
Players are skipping out on their games with a number of high-profile releases failing (Avatar, XDefiant, Star Wars Outlaws, Skull & Bones to name a few) and now they're under pressure, especially with their investors.
This has happened for a number of reasons. DEI related practises are a big one, both in terms of internal company culture which has of course found its way into the games themselves.
The conveyor belt style of game design that they have is the other obvious problem. We've been getting versions of Assassin's Creed 2 & Far Cry 3 for the last 10 years with very little serious innovation and it feels like that has caught up with them.
Their biggest problem? All these failures have come at once and their development pipeline is probably full of all the same sorts of games. It could take years for them to course correct in the publics eyes and I wonder if they'll actually survive that long...
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Games Journalist Completely Loses His Mind Over “Astro Bot Not Being Attractive”
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"Professional Comedian" games journalist writes a "witty" article where he claims he can't get into Astro Bot because the character isn't sexually attractive. This is meant to be a hilarious gotcha to all the gamers who've called out genuinely bad games with ugly, putrid looking characters over the last little while. Make no mistake, this article isn't meant to be a bit of fun. It's strange, od...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Could Damage RPGs Going Forward
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Simply using our eyes, it's pretty obvious at this point that The Veilguard is unlikely to be a success in any meaningful away. In fact, if money was on the line I'd be betting failure for it at this point. Unfortunately, as we've seen with Concord, the clowns defending this game will be using every trick in the book to try and handwave any and all criticism of the DEI infested characters/overa...
Everyone Is Losing Faith In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
มุมมอง 9K16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
The 22 minute gameplay trailer released recently through IGN made it clear why BioWare have been reluctant to show footage of the game. It looks mediocre, on the presentation front it's below industry standards, the tone and vibe of the game is nothing like the Dragon Age games that gave the franchise a fanbase and it's clear that the people making the game have lost sight of what makes a good ...
Sony Just Shutdown Concord...
มุมมอง 1.3K19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
I'd hoped not to talk about this game again but Sony have forced my hand! Talentless freaks, as a Concord dev labelled us, can now rejoice as this abomination is officially getting shut down... Will it return in as F2P game? If it does I think Sony will do the bare minimum to fix it as this hopeless mess is not worth wasting further development dollars on.
Losers Are Melting Down Over Kingdom Come: Deliverance II...
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance and its upcoming sequel have always had detractors in the form of loons who say "historical accuracy = racist". However the anger has dialed up recently and I was thinking about why. Could it be, that Kingdom Come's success is starting to eat away at these people? All of "their" games, the Concord's, the Dustborn's, the Flintlock's that were supposedly being made for t...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Being Made For The Wrong People
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I was interested to see if Bioware's Q&A for The Veilguard would reveal some interesting new information. Instead, it feels like most of the fan's are more concerned with "fluff" such as wondering if you can "hug" your companions in the game, most of the questions were things that are meaningless to RPG fans, but appeal to people looking for a DEI / intimacy simulator. BioWare are clearly aimin...
Greedfall 2 Is Having Huge Development Problems...
มุมมอง 1.8K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
Recently, the developers of Greedfall 2 went public with all the problems surrounding the development of the game. It basically suggested management had made it extremely difficult for them and this wasn't simply development deadlines but things like "psycho-social risk" within the work place. Due to the number of deranged devs we hear about, it's difficult to take this in 100% in good faith un...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pre-Order Numbers Look Dismal
มุมมอง 5K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
At least on Steam, Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't even in the top 100 sales list despite the game coming out within the next couple of months. Now, I hate pre-ordering but looking at the numbers at least gives some indication as to how well a game might sell overall. Defenders may say it's purely because it hasn't released, but other unreleased games like DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO and Kingdo...
The Avowed "Previews" Feel Dishonest...
มุมมอง 4.7K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
Obsidian allowed approved gaming journalists to play their upcoming game, Avowed at the recent Gamescom. Previews have mostly been positive, with the odd outlier suggesting it is mediocre. My issue with the previews I've read from the IGNs, Gamespot etc. is they just don't sound genuine. A lot of the text is talking up really generic combat encounters (gameplay footage of the content that playe...
Concord Dev Melts Down After Their Game Flops
มุมมอง 29K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
When your game performs so badly that you could only dream of reaching the heights of Redfall, it may be best to stay quiet on social media. Instead of doing that, an individual who worked on Concord decides to take to X to call anyone critisising the game "talentless hacks" and also suggested that as a video game developer, he is better than you. Hard to sympathise with the team behind this fl...
Bloodlines 2 DELAYED For The 57th Time... | Vampire: The Masquerade
มุมมอง 7K21 วันที่ผ่านมา
Bloodlines 2 has been delayed until the first half of 2025 (which realistically means an April - June release). If it was any other game, this would have been expected given they've barely been showing anything, and the highlight of recent marketing has been Chat GPT created dev diaries. I thought the delays were over because Paradox were determined not to spend any more money on this but here ...
Lunatics Melt Down Over Black Myth: Wukong's Success
มุมมอง 5K21 วันที่ผ่านมา
Black Myth: Wukong has smashed Steam records and by all accounts, players are liking the game despite the best efforts of mainstream "video game journalists" who attempted to take the wind out of its sails before launch. Just like with Stellar Blade, Hogwarts Legacy and many other games, the usual suspects are melting down over the game's success, suggesting that the developers "don't deserve i...
The Bloodlines 2 Team Are Complete Amateurs... (Dialogue System Reveal) | Vampire: The Masquerade
มุมมอง 8K21 วันที่ผ่านมา
In this overly convoluted dev dairy, we learn that despite the game releasing this year supposedly, they're still constantly going back and forth on in-game systems, this time the dialogue choice system. Originally, they wanted to allow us to choose our choices more freely. They then decided to dumb it down into the Fallout 4 system. Then after feedback, they changed it to be somewhere in the m...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Release Date Leaked & Roadmap Unveiled
มุมมอง 3.7K28 วันที่ผ่านมา
October 31st is the release date... it was rumoured previously this would be around the time it would come out but it still seems very soon given we've still barely seen any of the game. The "roadmap" also doesn't provide a lot to get excited about, it doesn't actually promise any gameplay footage outside of a possible high-end combat encounter and curated IGN puff pieces (given IGN have paid f...
Are Things Getting Worse... Or Better For Avowed?
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Are Things Getting Worse... Or Better For Avowed?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Director Says We "Can't Handle" Controlling Companions Anymore...
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Director Says We "Can't Handle" Controlling Companions Anymore...
It's OK To Critisise Games Before They Come Out | Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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It's OK To Critisise Games Before They Come Out | Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Ubisoft Bribing Influencers To Give Star Wars Outlaws Positive Reviews
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Ubisoft Bribing Influencers To Give Star Wars Outlaws Positive Reviews
So We Finally Got a New Gothic Remake Update...
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So We Finally Got a New Gothic Remake Update...
This Bloodlines 2 Update Just Killed All Hope... | Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
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This Bloodlines 2 Update Just Killed All Hope... | Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
Unhinged Reddit Mod's Assassin's Creed Shadow's Meltdown
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Unhinged Reddit Mod's Assassin's Creed Shadow's Meltdown
There's No Enthusiasm for Dragon Age: The Veilguard (and the Little There Is Feels Fake!)
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There's No Enthusiasm for Dragon Age: The Veilguard (and the Little There Is Feels Fake!)
Insane Assassin's Creed Shadows Defender Completely Loses The Plot
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Insane Assassin's Creed Shadows Defender Completely Loses The Plot
Concord Is A Totally Deserved Flop
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Concord Is A Totally Deserved Flop
Dragon Age: The Veilguard "The First Entry With Fun Combat"... Says Lying BioWare
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard "The First Entry With Fun Combat"... Says Lying BioWare
Umm... Mrs. Freeze Is Now A Lesbian Named "Victoria Frias" | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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Umm... Mrs. Freeze Is Now A Lesbian Named "Victoria Frias" | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
"Watching a Video Game Is Basically Playing It" Says Polygon
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"Watching a Video Game Is Basically Playing It" Says Polygon
Xbox Going All In On Game Pass Greed, No Longer Care About Their Own Console
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Xbox Going All In On Game Pass Greed, No Longer Care About Their Own Console
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is A Romance & They/Them Nudity Sim...
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is A Romance & They/Them Nudity Sim...

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  • @seagrey75
    @seagrey75 2 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    DEI = No buy.

  • @FaradayMoses-o6k
    @FaradayMoses-o6k 29 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Hernandez Michael Hernandez Edward Robinson Linda

  • @SternenSeelen
    @SternenSeelen 37 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    i hope they go down and close...period.

  • @scarletina5137
    @scarletina5137 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Men should just go there and say they are identifying as a woman. Let's see if they discriminate and turn you away.

  • @NerdishGeekish
    @NerdishGeekish ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Poor Ubisoft, couldn't have happened to a nicer company!

  • @ericg34
    @ericg34 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Ubisoft is a disgusting narcissistic company it's a boost for real gamer morale to see them sinking 😊🎉.

  • @OldDadGamer
    @OldDadGamer ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thank youtube for bringing me to the channel.

  • @chrwi5848
    @chrwi5848 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Just noticed on the background picture that lol "shinobi" is holding the kama chain in a wrong way.

  • @Ian-km3xh
    @Ian-km3xh 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This is what happens when you only listen to the echo chamber!

  • @o0TraceuR0o
    @o0TraceuR0o 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    ubislop=woke asset flipped shovelware

  • @Nyrufa
    @Nyrufa 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Another thing that might come across as racist, is the idea of how exactly these people from different ethnic backgrounds introduce 'different cultures' to the project. Like, if they grew up in the United States, then their culture is American. What the heck does Ubisoft think black people are doing in their spare time? Dressing up in African style robes, banging on drums and channeling the spirits of their ancestors?

  • @shakshaka8355
    @shakshaka8355 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Black gay samurai in ancient japan!!! No f yourself!!

  • @GhostOfMJ-HeHe
    @GhostOfMJ-HeHe 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Soon Ubislop's pronouns will be Was/Were.

  • @cirescythe
    @cirescythe 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    They dont hire a diverse cast. They hire the exact same person im a different color. They do a reverse MLK.

  • @frogmastiff8198
    @frogmastiff8198 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Ubisoft won’t get creative I think unless the non majority share holders pool together and oust the ceo and his family that are running it, I would welcome their departure

  • @troyl200
    @troyl200 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I hear this all the time, that it's illegal to hire based on skin color and diversity. It's only illegal to advertise. Any company can hire anyone for any reason. Doesn't matter.

  • @ChaoticHoly
    @ChaoticHoly 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The issue isn't that Ubisoft ignored the cliff they were heading toward, the issue is that they listened to their echo chamber who stated that "dei" was the new standard that was chiseled into stone, and that there would never be meaningful pushback.

    • @APOLLOPATRIOT
      @APOLLOPATRIOT ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Reason why I'm very worried for the next Ghost Recon game .

  • @kimmoruohoniemi7158
    @kimmoruohoniemi7158 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Valhalla had excellent combat and skill tree, and solid game world. Shame they did not go further that road, as Mirage was bland trash. Mirage was more polished than any other new Ubi project tho. Outlaws felt and looked like they did not even bother with quality control, because if any of Ubi's big wigs had actually bothered to playtest the game after it went gold, they would've definitely delayed the launch by coupla months at the least.

  • @ethanholt2455
    @ethanholt2455 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    "Games trash. The vibes are off" 😂😂

  • @AGnar0k
    @AGnar0k 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    As someone who loved the Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell and Far Cry games as a child, and put nearly 1000 hours in Rainbow Six Siege before quitting it when they ruined it, I will be the happiest man alive if Ubisoft goes bankrupt/dissolves and their IPs are bought by people who actually care about them.

  • @frogmastiff8198
    @frogmastiff8198 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Giving your money to Ubisoft is paying to destroy gaming, they are the worst, they will delete games you own if they aren’t stopped just like the crew recently, they are the forefront of identity politics over gaming, Kim belair came from Ubisoft, never forget never forgive

  • @Aaron_Esh
    @Aaron_Esh 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    May I dance on their grave?

  • @JohnTrimmer-l7m
    @JohnTrimmer-l7m 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The thing that happened is they told gamers to get comfortable not owning their own games. I will get used to not owning my own games, when they don't make a hideous, woke game. So never.. 130 bucks for Outlaws, comedy gold.

  • @Junan1995
    @Junan1995 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Imagine being called a Ubisoft Expert, this is probably the biggest insult someone can put in words.

  • @cirescythe
    @cirescythe 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Im so happy about the rise of smaller/newer/independant studios that gave me bg3, space marine 2 and wukong. My holy trinity in their respective genres.

  • @-Elysium-
    @-Elysium- 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Even besides going all woke psycho, all their games are now the same with different skins they were pretty good back in the early 2000's

    • @cirescythe
      @cirescythe 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I wish it was that way. Star wars outhouse would be fine if it was a reskinned ascre. But somehow they manage to make each new game sliiiightly worse than what came before.

  • @Simppu1410
    @Simppu1410 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe it's just because Ubisoft has never made the kind of games that I personally like to play, even a decade ago, but every time I saw their games, whether it was marketing like trailers or gameplay footage they always looked uninteresting and even boring to me. And of course their DEI initiatives makes me even less enthusiastic about them. Ubisoft deserves whatever is coming to them. I expected that Assassins' Creed: Shadows is going to sell well because it's another Assassins' Creed title and most consumers just buy AAA-games because it's the newest entry to their favorite franchise not knowing, or caring, about whatever controversies it has on the internet. But after Star Wars: Outlaw's poor performance, despite being a Star Wars game, I dare speculate that maybe Shadows will sell less than expected/hoped as well.

  • @enescustovic1883
    @enescustovic1883 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    O Canada! The true north strong and free indeed lol

  • @KratosisGod
    @KratosisGod 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Besides Starfield, Valhalla is the most boring game I've ever played I played for about 1 hour 45 mins the combat felt floaty the stealth felt like far cry in third person, and now we have ubisoft trying to virtue signal which is so ironic when ubisoft has been exposed as having one of the worst working environments for women besides Activision.

  • @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115
    @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    It's justthe beginning. They will later go after indies until the whole gaming thing is destroyed beyond any repair.

    • @Simppu1410
      @Simppu1410 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      What do you mean by "go after indies"? What are they (Ubisoft and other AAA-publishers) gonna do? Acquire every single indie studio/developer out there? I think indie gaming scene will be just fine.

  • @APOLLOPATRIOT
    @APOLLOPATRIOT 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Best offline game would be Ghost Recon Wildlands 🗿 fighting against cartel's .

    • @bobmcbob4399
      @bobmcbob4399 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Finished that last month. Entertaining game with a focus on fun vs realism. Would like to own on a platform that lets me own it.

    • @APOLLOPATRIOT
      @APOLLOPATRIOT 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@bobmcbob4399Fallen Ghost DLC tops the game off 💪

  • @jamesc7126
    @jamesc7126 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    After watching the rogue's deep dive I actually think the combat and progression look great but the companions do not have me excited which is important for bioware games

  • @mrmr5831
    @mrmr5831 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The problem isn’t the “woke” (BG3 is a good example of a “woke” game doing well), it’s that they are alienating the actual fan base. In the attempt to garner a new generation of fans, they are changing the core values that made the IP (and the company as a whole) so great. The gritty darker vibes exchanged for bloom and bright colors. Trading strategy and tactic in combat for brainless button mashing and flashy combos. That’s what happens when the core team that made the other games gets replaced by people who don’t actually care for what they are making and the legacy that comes with it. Overwatch is another great example. “Woke” characters that people didn’t really have a problem with because the game itself was fun, and the people making it put actual effort into it. Now it’s just a soulless cash grab made by people who only care about making a profit. DAV seems similar, slapping on the Dragon Age name when in reality it doesn’t seem to play, feel, or look like Dragon Age. It’s also why Andromeda was such a flop. Going from a heavily lore and character established game and changing up the core values of the IP made it so that old fans didn’t want anything to do with it, and new fans don’t really care about it.

    • @krasmasov6852
      @krasmasov6852 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      No YOU are not the actual fanbase. The gritty darker vibes are still there entirely thematically. Colorful spells won't change that. They did move away from more strategic combat because that's what their audience wanted. They worked to implement a tactics mode in Inquisition only for most people to not bother using it. Also, a lot of the people that worked on Veilguard worked on Origins including a good portion of the writing team.

  • @UnknownRex
    @UnknownRex 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    All modern AAA games are DEI infested nonsense these days. Games made as propaganda, not as a fun product. It shows in how badly they are made. I just automatically tune them out. Luckily good indie devs are a thing.

  • @aXPw39
    @aXPw39 วันที่ผ่านมา

    These journalists are retards.🙄

  • @ambulance-kun5915
    @ambulance-kun5915 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They just want to make the gaming community look trying to say "YOU'RE ALL HYPOCRITES, YOU HATE CONCORD FOR HAVING NO SEXY DESIGNS BUT LOVE ASTRO BOT WHO ALSO DOESN'T HAVE SEXY DESIGNS" Like for bait, this is too unbelievable... Who are you trying to bait here? Astro bot a cutesy game with a cute mascot-type non-humanoid main character And even if it doesn't have any hint of sexiness, the design is still very cute and like-able unlike concord's

  • @ambulance-kun5915
    @ambulance-kun5915 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As if. Aigis skin wiggling its butt isn't attractive?

  • @marcusclark1339
    @marcusclark1339 วันที่ผ่านมา

    yeah its clear from the get go same problem as so many DEI/ESG games, tokenism first and foremost no appealing character design cause that's "wrong think" and strangely also babyface character looks

  • @peterparker-q1q
    @peterparker-q1q วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yes, ugly characters is red flag, i already know that devs don't even tried, and body type and pronaunce just killed game, it's just propaganda and not a game

  • @MissJCLinderman
    @MissJCLinderman วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've been waiting for this game, but it feels like a disney spin off, not DA4. No thanks 🥱

  • @sinsinsinat5377
    @sinsinsinat5377 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think you hating them is very immature. This game doesnt look good. But there is no reason to hate them because of it, hate is a strong word after all.

  • @Brian-uq6jm
    @Brian-uq6jm วันที่ผ่านมา

    I did not know what it was about the art style and vibe, hated it but just couldn't name it, but now you've mentioned it, yeah, it's similar to New Tales from the Borderlands, Concord and Fairgames. This is the ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE of Dragon Age Origins, but I've long lost all my faith in Bioware anyway.

  • @RainFox919
    @RainFox919 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just heard of it, first half. Yeah sure no way. They promised on everything holy this year. At best second half 2025. If Paradox dont pull the plug.

  • @defeqel6537
    @defeqel6537 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Shouldn't the writer be more concerned that the robot doesn't represent a group of people, well other than those identifying as robots?

  • @ChaosSkye
    @ChaosSkye วันที่ผ่านมา

    Surprised they didn't cry that astro bot doesn't have pronouns.

  • @Kaesemesser0815
    @Kaesemesser0815 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Journos: wHy iSn'T ThE RobOT gAY???!!!

  • @pandereodium
    @pandereodium วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mike Cucker

  • @Pillock25
    @Pillock25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "People are talking pretty positively about Sony now" Ahem, you've seen the price of the PS5 pro? Especially here in Aus, around $1200, $1400 if you want a physical drive, it's not so positive anymore.

  • @marcar9marcar972
    @marcar9marcar972 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2:37 in my experience it’s typically both

  • @akow2655
    @akow2655 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If these clown journos want to do political and social commentary, that is completely fine but why the fuck do they have to do it in the video games industry? They can go and join some political outlet or do youtube videos instead of smearing their shit opinions all over an industry whose main draw is escapism in the first place. There is a place and a time for politics and social commentary and it's not fucking here and we've been telling them this for the better part of a decade now. (Proud libcuck by the way)