No one actually fucking likes him, right? None of us were excited to cast that vote or we just wanted Trump out, right. Like at the end of the day, that is the win, that Trump is no longer going to be president for another four years. But I really urge everyone to understand that we elected a old white dude that is a career politician deeply rooted in pro-war neoliberal philosophies. Not just not having Trump isn't enough.

And I'm really also tired of people being like "well we got to get a Democrat in, because we can fight, as the left we can push Democrats and get them to do the things we want them to do". Which is what you say every fucking election and it never works. - Anita Sarkeesian on the election

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Also playing Corvo in that game sucks because the guy they got to voice him has the vocal talents of a limp dishrag. He's a bit like Kevin Conroy's Batman if Kevin Conroy had no ability whatsoever to emote with his voice.

      Though I feel like in terms of story and atmosphere a lot of Dishonored 2 was a pallid imitation of the original. Level design was better, gameplay was better, that cool time travel level was better, but I don't think it really holds a candle to the original or the Dowd DLC. Also I found the villains had a lot more personality in the first one. Except Delilah, but she's in the first one so that doesn't count.

      And then Death of the Outsider was so bleh. I was so excited to play Billie but then it was just a big let down of a game. There's a little meat on the bones of her relationship to Dowd, but not enough to carry the game, and then there's so many reused assets and levels that the whole thing is very uninspired. Though a little bit of that's on me because I prefer stories where the magic is sorta lurking around the edges, mysterious and otherworldly and incomprehensible, and in DotO you

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      basically go to the heaven equivalent and fuck around with the gods

      so that's more or less the opposite of the thing I like.

      Plus, like, I know the original voice actor for the Outsider turned out to be a massive piece of shit and they were right to not bring him back, but his delivery (and the writing around the Outsider as this otherworldly, unknowable being) was so much better in the first game than the person they got for the other two. The Outsider shrines in the first one are the highlight of the whole game for me, and they felt kinda tacked on in the others. "Strange how there's always a little more innocence left to lose."

      Sorry for this long rant about a video game series I enjoyed but was mildly disappointed in. Go Karl Marx and Assata Shakur or whatever.