Forum Overview :: We Love Katamari :: Re: Sure, in the sense that you 'can' play b-ball with Dr J.

[quote name="John Gulp"][quote name="Injustice"]So I'm just going to gloss over the part where you suggest that writing about video games is something you have to believe in, like fucking Tinkerbell, and now it's maybe going to disappear because you're over your mom's death and don't feel like you need it anymore. Instead I'm going to remind you the whole point of the article was the author didn't like the way this particular subsystem functioned, she didn't think it was fun, and she was willing to pull it apart in excruciating detail for the benefit of anyone who cared to read. That sort of criticism is infinitely more valuable than whatever Infinite Warfare screenshot blowout or long overdue Grim Fandango retrospective you think should've got blasted down the tubes in its place. Anyone who believes this article is worse, and not MUCH BETTER, than every single other piece of games writing not about Cryptozookeeper on Rock Paper Scissors is an idiot.[/quote] Sure, the article is better than the extremely poor content they have there which essentially amount to "Hey, this game is out on Steam. You should buy it." Those are usually prefaced with some of the most awkward writing I've ever read. In this you aren't wrong. But we can't deny that Claudia Lo knew that it would, at minimum, ruin the author of RimWorld's day. Due to the fact that hordes of people that take their cue from RPS's politics would then turn on the guy. The left has stigmatized Notch for responding to people who are insulting him. A very common complaint is that a guy with million of followers has so much "power," he shouldn't use that influence to respond to someone calling him names all day. It's not fair, they say. Well, I don't think the left gets it both ways. That article wasn't created in a vacuum. They knew that some number of people were going to read the incendiary headline and attack the creator of RimWorld. I'm not judging, I am just saying. This discussion has been rather heated. I hope you know I am treating you with respect. [/quote]