CurseOfTheWise

No one has thought this for at least 20 years, Vince McMahon himself held a press conference and admitted, publicly, that wrestling is fake. There were people who wanted him dead for it, literally dead, but this has not been a thing in the community since the early '90s, and after '98 it has entirely fallen by the wayside.

@zoofame: You, uh...seem like you got another ax altogether to grind, there.

From what I can tell: Dan's doing great and some people, especially on this site, are being REALLY weird about that in one direction or another.

@humanity To say nothing of their Saudi relationship and more being stuff that Dan was never going to talk about even BEFORE he went and worked for them (not his thing, absolutely fine, don't hold it against him), soooooo...I personally love when GB or Waypoint really rake them over the coals. With how much the games industry is allowed to get away with, we don't need to use kid gloves on ANOTHER broken industry.

The simple fix would seemingly be: only listen to whichever one you like?

A reduction of content right now doesn't really suit the site, they just had a giant move and people are still under lockdown with not a great deal to do, so I'm sure there are a ton of people who appreciate the glut of podcasts every week.

For my money, I find The HotSpot to be a bit redundant, so I don't exactly miss it. But there are thousands of listeners who don't engage with anything else on the website other than the podcasts, so...

Not gonna happen anytime soon, unless there's a MASSIVE staff shakeup.

Can we get a quick-and-dirty on why it's inherently sleazy/harmful, and not just "parting a fool with their money, soonish"?

This setup better have a HELLUVA punchline for them...cause "grimdark misery porn feat. Bearded Dad" is a well that is fast starting to look brackish.

@berfunkle:Yeah, that's what they did during the Kansas Flu epidemic, they just 'got on with it' and life didn't change at ALL. If this had happened in the '80s, people breaking the mask mandates would probably be in jail because the stakes would be so much higher than they are now. We live in privileged times, and we're ONLY JUST NOW figuring out HOW privileged we could have been living for years now.

@nevergameover: It's a real damn shame that happened to you. I got married in 2016, the year that was stolen from us by tragedy, and it's always a strangely bittersweet time. It's difficult to live now, being forced to give up things we wouldn't for our neighbors we barely know, but I might suggest that not recognizing that more people died in this than both atomic bomb attacks on Japan is the TEXTBOOK DEFINITION OF BEING SELFISH. Even your examples: you cancelled YOUR wedding, you spent YOUR life-savings are SELFISH EXAMPLES.

It's okay to be selfish sometimes (when self-caring, when one's life is in danger, when one has to choose between a friend and a stranger), but don't act selfish and try to frame it as taking a STAND. Because you're literally setting yourself up to fight against altruism, which might work on the campaign trail, but probably won't win you any points in a videogame forum you want to frequent.

Love that these threads always feature a decent conversation despite the fanboyish tone of the OP.

Seriously, leave the bullshit '80s Corporate Handbook "in order to succeed, someone else MUST fail" and just enjoy Persona and leave Final Fantasy to doing whatever they're gonna do. I think Persona games have only gotten better since 3 to 4 to 5, but that doesn't mean I have to hate something else in equal measure. And neither do you.

@finaldasa: Considering how behind the 8-ball we are with regards to Climate Change, this shit's going to happen again within our lifetime. For sure. Hopefully we won't have just elected a bunch of populist strongmen science-denying fascist-wannabes to some of the highest positions of global power as soon as it does next time around.

Dunno why some people keep up with boards that are so obviously "against them."

Almost as if they're not here to actually have a discussion, just prop themselves up and feel superior.

I sometimes wonder whether Jim Sterling is preaching to the choir on a lot of his videos, and then I see this and realize: no, the problem's just deeper than I want to admit.

Seriously, cheering for one billion dollar company to "punish" another one for cheap, petty revenge just because of a personal grudge...

Be careful attaching your ego to a product, kids. You tend to take any criticism of said product personally.