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Free uni was abolished over a decade ago

Yeah, doesn't change the fact though - it was Sony's flagship from their oldest most well known first party studio and it effectively got cancelled and pawned off to HBO to be milked on a budget.

Most movie franchises wish they could be Star Wars but it doesn't change the fact the sequel trilogy did immense and obvious damage to the brand due (primarily) to the controversy, though in that case those movies actually also sucked which I'm sure didn't help things. TLOU Part 2 on the other hand was by no means as awful as any of the sequel trilogy SW flicks.

Care to elaborate? You play as the person who killed a beloved iconic video game character and last game's protagonist for 13 straight hours - I don't know if it's good but I'd hardly call it anything resembling "normie writing".

To me - normie writing is something like those new switch Zelda games or Yakuza games or those Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor dark souls clone games or something like Watch_Dogs 1 or hell insert any ubisoft game apart from FC2, WD2 here

Whether the writing was garbage or not isn't relevant to be honest - because controversy was spun by people who only knew the game's story through hearsay of the leaks before the game even came out, and majorly it was to do with accusations of "wokeness" and other brainrot - so yes clearly it was an issue, of course it was an issue.

It wasn't really the substance of the game that the usual outrage grifters latched onto so it's not relevant to the discussion of the controversy.

As for more women being protagonists - sure, idk how you can say that so confidently, I suppose you have a convenient framing for what counts as "big games" to support your point, but I think the quantity was never really an issue.

Honestly more men being protags in games is okay, what I take issue with is that whenever something interesting happens, like oh I dunno, a game makes a woman kinda buff and mean looking, people bitch about it like no tomorrow.

So of course it's an issue. It always has been.

In 2013-ish, Anita Sarkessian made some exceedingly light feminist critiques of video games in and it was an issue. In 2014-ish, A woman made an indie game that's honestly really good even to this day (Depression Quest) and it was an issue. In 2020, a game came out where a fictional character (Abby) had muscles and it was an issue.

Nowadays I guess the most famous example would be the "FUCKING GENDER AMBIGUITY" screaming guy who didn't like Starfield's pronoun selection screen or some such.

Then people went truly psychotic in a deranged hate campaign against some random inclusivity consultancy Sweet Baby Inc. over games they were reportedly never involved with because there was women, or something, somewhere.

Hopefully you get the idea.

It was precisely the issue that a woman was the main character in a video game but was not in fact "Metroid from Metroid 1986" but a buff, angry, unattractive, hateful and morally grey character who does shitty things, sorta like Joel - in other words - she was something a lot more like a real person in a mature story, not a single digit frame twist from 40 years ago that amounts to an Easter egg turned geek culture cringe factoid parroted by the kinds of people who wouldn't understand RLM's "Nerd Crew" show is satire.

You can see some of the worst examples here, cherry-picked as they are, juxtaposed with what actual critique is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQcZa4O01A

You can also visit the steam store page and look at the negative reviews, or peruse the cesspit subreddit /r/TheLastOfUs2 posts the time of the game's leaks and release to see people bitching about everything from pride flags in Seattle(!) to Abby being made too likeable to accusations of this or that character being le ebil transgender or whatever else that sounds like it came out of a /pol/-themed magic 8 ball.

Hell, there are utterly deranged people in the steam reviews for this game now bitching about the show - about the actress that plays Ellie and one guy even implies she is "down syndrome representation".

Like, what the actual fuck?

As for the game, the game is ok, I'm playing it right now, it's less boring than the first so I like it a lot more, the AI actually lives up to the bullshit promised in the first game's trailer, but it's too long and yeah the writing is too on the nose sometimes, though I do like the characters and the atmosphere a lot. Idk if I "love" it, but I do find it way more fun as a game and far more interesting from a story perspective.

What it definitely is though is controversial as fuck and that's just reality. People made a whole subreddit just to hate on the game that's active to this day and most of their issues aren't even to do with the game - they even pretend to hate the TV show they haven't seen too.

Killed so much that the game will never get a sequel it's clearly meant to have, yes.

The remaster of the first game came out before Part 2. The subsequent remake of the first game is made using Part 2's assets and mechanics as well as assets from the original and had much smaller production costs, it was clearly made to recoup the loss of IP value perceived by Sony, same with the relatively low budget HBO show, compared to making a game the caliber of TLOU it costs peanuts and if at all - that will be the only way the saga will see a conclusion sadly.

So yes absolutely TLOU was killed off by the controversy and they're now working on a new IP that looks significantly more safe and uncontroversial in every way sans maybe featuring a black lady in it.

Can you blame them for not taking risks when these games get punished time and time again for doing so?

TLOU Part II had a mildly unlikeable character who gasp was a woman and it killed the entire franchise and sparked mass controversy so hard Naughty Dog now is making some bland and generic soulslike (but in space) GOTG ripoff slop with product placement in it.

I'd name it after my gf if it wouldn't mess anything up astronomy-wise. She's big into astronomy

Zomg it's a heckin' Metro 2033 reference!!!1

Yeah that's what I did but Windows will insert itself to the top of boot entries in UEFI anyway lol

They are probably using Xiaomi which is based in China, using AOSP with whatever mods they throw on it, which isn't based anywhere and is open source, or it could be Huawei too.

I will create a masto instance where this is mandatory to counter balance

I haven't used Windows at work in years for anything, not for cloud hosting, not for on-prem, not for employee machines etc etc. until the cost-cutters came in and forced Teams and other Microsoft crap to squeeze the market during inflation. The company is just waiting to be killed off now.

Respectable, I'm the opposite, whenever in at the office I feel like I'm clawing at the walls to get out as quickly as possible, the sweat, the noise, the people, it's just not my thing, at home I live alone in a decently sized apartment in a non-major city and it feels so cash compared to rammed trains and buses commuting for hours and hours like the last chopper out of Saigon.

While the billionaires have AC on private jets, we have those shitty euro bakery curtains. Great.

It should link to comments by default, no? Comments is the content on text-based platforms like Reddit and Lemmy both.

I donate to 404media and like them a lot, but how do I set it up so that I can see full versions of linked articles?

I tried to use Bitwig but I just couldn't in the end. No single click note delete that I could find out how to do in a reasonable amount of time and the workflow is just different enough to FL to me to irritate, it seemed like really nice software for Ableton-minded folks though.

I caved in and dual booted Windows 10 with all the shite modded out/crippled, for music and for VR gaming.

Honestly - you do you and have fun! Don't listen to those who moralize/pathologize this, it's pure slave morality shit, especially amongst Christians. Just make sure you're doing it for you and not for society.

I only ever hear that in movies. I assumed it happens if you eat low grade meat or smth like in the wild west in the US back in the day and it just became an old wives' tale turned pop culture myth.

I do actually not like spicy food though, especially Chinese and Indian, but I've had enough of it to know I never had any gut issues.

Yeah I never had appendicitis but always found it odd there are so many who do all of a sudden. If this organ was so prone to failure all the time would it have not been gone ages ago?