afgavinstan wrote:

I may still have my copy. Can send it on if you like.

Got like 200 chapters of One Piece left first, but I will take you up on it later if you still got it!

Tempy wrote:

Skin graft? What have I missed?!

Uncle has an acid fetish and got over excited. Arm like mozzarella on pizza.

I have just been handed the gown. I’m going in and when I come round I’ll have some of my leg on my arm.

regmcfly wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Skin graft? What have I missed?!

Uncle has an acid fetish and got over excited. Arm like mozzarella on pizza.

Listen you read my post on dildos

Posted before page turn. See below (above).

Yeah I haven't watched Sterling in a good long while, and whilst I think the angle he is presenting is right, he's not really gone long on the altercation, it's quite surface level. Glad he is sticking up for Schreier getting to carry on doing his work, which is important and studio heads like Balrog trying to liken it to bullying and tearing down is the most ghastly shit ever.

Also not really his fault, but I don't like this forced banter between him and his editor, it's a new thing that I've seen in a bunch of vids over the past few months. Some good old parasocial shit right there.

He did a thing on "brand" BLM / Pride messages which rubbed me up the wrong way a bit. Not the central thesis - the corporations couldn't really give two shits and they're just out to make money. More that he called out some companies like Bethesda for doing things like changing their twitter logos to rainbow ones in certain territories, but not others (e.g. russia and the middle east).

He kinda touched on the idea that the companies will say they can't do that there, as they need to protect their employees from government backlash, but that these companies should publicly state as much. Which, seemed to me the kind of thing someone who had never lived in a country like that would say.

He gets to do the incorruptible, moral, consumer champion thing but he has the privilege of doing so in a place and on a platform that offers him relative freedom and safety, however much he might bitch about them. I like him overall, but sometimes his black and white idealism bleeds into his supposed "real takes".

Minnesänger wrote:

He did a thing on "brand" BLM / Pride messages which rubbed me up the wrong way a bit. Not the central thesis - the corporations couldn't really give two shits and they're just out to make money. More that he called out some companies like Bethesda for doing things like changing their twitter logos to rainbow ones in certain territories, but not others (e.g. russia and the middle east).

He kinds touched on the idea that the companies will say they can't do that there, as they need to protect their employees from government backlash, but that these companies should publicly state as much. Which, seemed to me the kind of thing someone who had never lived in a country like that would say.

He gets to do the incorruptible, moral, consumer champion thing but he has the privilege of doing so in a place and on a platform that offers him relative freedom and safety, however much he might bitch about them. I like him overall, but sometimes his black and white idealism bleeds into his supposed "real takes".

Thus the lofty status of the "critic"

regmcfly wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

He did a thing on "brand" BLM / Pride messages which rubbed me up the wrong way a bit. Not the central thesis - the corporations couldn't really give two shits and they're just out to make money. More that he called out some companies like Bethesda for doing things like changing their twitter logos to rainbow ones in certain territories, but not others (e.g. russia and the middle east). He kinds touched on the idea that the companies will say they can't do that there, as they need to protect their employees from government backlash, but that these companies should publicly state as much. Which, seemed to me the kind of thing someone who had never lived in a country like that would say. He gets to do the incorruptible, moral, consumer champion thing but he has the privilege of doing so in a place and on a platform that offers him relative freedom and safety, however much he might bitch about them. I like him overall, but sometimes his black and white idealism bleeds into his supposed "real takes".

Thus the lofty status of the "critic"

Hello you cum gargling spunk knuckles!

Pulitzers for days.

Me too.

I do like him, quite a bit. I just don't see him as my white knight (no nasty connotations intended) consumer champion, just as a healthy dose of "check your shit" that the industry needs.

Minnesänger wrote:

Ah, Destructoid. Great site, that, and just about the only place around many moons ago that would talk Weeb JRPGs like Persona before those hipster sites jumped on the fucking bandwagon.

Didn't they declare the player as an enemy?

Minnesänger wrote:

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

Ah, Destructoid. Great site, that, and just about the only place around many moons ago that would talk Weeb JRPGs like Persona before those hipster sites jumped on the fucking bandwagon.

Didn't they declare the player as an enemy?

That was UK Resistance, the SEGA fansite.

Fucking halcyon days

Minnesänger wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

Me too.

I'm not subscribing to The Player's rules of social interaction fwiw

The Player will have you know that Jim Sterling is the Dark Souls of Tim Rogers.

Remember when we did a chat with Tim Rogers as if it was the end days and didn't know all he wrote about was living in Japan?

I was playing excite trucks the whole time. Sorry.

I ran into Kieran Gillen at that pub in Tottenham court road me and NMD played ukulele at. He hadn't changed at all. He was writing comics, I said I loved Watchmen and he made a face and explained why it's shit and, in a nice way, I didn't know anything at all.