Being actually serious for a moment – sarcasm can be a good medicine in small doses – I think, or at least I presume to believe that none of the present company shares into rabid homophobia or such, so that’s out of the window right off the bat. Hence, with that said:



Different perspectives should always be compared and contrasted through reasoning and argument though without falling into the trap of whataboutism (tl:dr, there *are* ideologies that are *de facto* abysmal, nazifascism and race supremacy being amonst them, so they do *not* deserve a place at the table).


hat said, I think we should all separate legitimate criticism of a game – and in spite of its technical achievements, there’s *really really* plenty to criticize in this case, IMHO, at least in terms of story direction, development, narrative – from *ad hominem* arguments.



It goes for the “you are all *this* for thinking *that*” types, but it should also be something *everyone* who wants to be sincerely involved in the discussion needs to be mindful about and avoid in return if we want to see some progress being made, rather than people grunting expletives at each other.


we’re at the point where the standard behavior in a discussion is staying on the defensive rather than moving on and finding a way to compare your ideas on a subject without immediately going for the other’s throat. Something has to change for the better in that regard, for our own sake.