I mean, they’d run out of people willing to do the things that inspire French revolutionary style ideas eventually. But no, it’s probably not a feasible solution.

Too reactive to really work. Efforts to prevent fuck shits like this from getting into positions of disproportionate privilege and power in the first place are needed. Good luck with that in a capitalist system though.

Man they did that guy dirty. The headline and picture makes it look like he’s the Lyft driver.

Hey now, I earned those downvotes!

Ah. Definite rtfa moment.

Gamers, or vulnerable populations like gambling addicts?

Doesn’t show as on sale for me. Maybe region specific?

Edit: Oh screw you!

Where is bird’s cigarette?!

He would almost certainly vote for Trump again given the opportunity. So, no sympathy.

Bullshit.

Not at all! I think StarCraft: Ghost is a reinforcement of what I said in my response to Makhno.

I thought Ghost was a great idea, but the context surrounding it was fundamentally different. Ghost was a spin-off alongside an active RTS series. Starcraft was still a core Blizzard product, and StarCraft II was already an expected continuation. Nobody thought Ghost was replacing the genre identity of the franchise.

You’re arguing against a position nobody stated. My criticism isn’t that an IP ever appears in another genre. It is the pattern of publishers repurposing established strategy franchises into monetization-friendly live-service shooters because that market is larger and more predictable.

Warhammer is a poor comparison. Games like Vermintide didn’t replace or redefine Warhammer; they existed alongside a still-supported core genre identity. The RTS space around StarCraft has effectively been abandoned for years. So when the first meaningful revival rumor turns out to be a shooter, I read it less as expansion and more as substitution.

If Blizzard announced a new RTS and also a shooter spin-off, I would not be critical. The reaction is about genre displacement, not genre diversification.

Let’s take something arguably genre defining and turn it into a fad chaser! Great idea.

Ah neat. I saw this posted a couple days ago and meant to check it out, but lost track of the link. Thanks!

What a terrible day to have eyes.

One is my favorite strips:

Please be a broken clock moment please be a broken clock moment.

Narrator: It was not.

Poorly Drawn Lines is an awesome comic.

Wait, what? That’s crazy.