holy shit that fucking tweet at 15:30, "nothing was risked and nothing was gained", my dude this is a fucking video game, NOTHING IS RISKED BY DEFINITION OF IT BEING A FUCKING GAME
shit like this makes the various "you die in the game you die in real life" movie/anime plots seems not even that out there, gamers would ABSOLUTELY sign up in droves for a game like that just so they can brag about how badass and hardcore they are, "you casual gamers don't even face the risk of actually dying, lol scrub"
wait, does polygon understand that capitalism is destroying video games and name drops that fact?
I thought they were weird tech ghouls?
Polygon are if I had to mark them down as something progressive liberals. Pretty left leaning for gaming standards at least. (Thats at least the impression I got from reading some of their stuff here and there)
The owners are the My Brother, My Brother, and Me podcast guys, I think. Their writers and video producers range from centrist morons like this to cool-adjacent people like BDG (who left).
I think that's the usual case for media writers, though. There's a handful of former Vice Waypoint people who are cool-cool :AC-CommBear:.