Annie

@ElijahKaiVA the scream gets me every time

This is still so fucking funny to me.

@PunishedTyke The brotherhood without banners is one of George's best cooks

Love this passage so much

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@ElijahKaiVA Oh my goodness, yeah I researched kyphosis at the onset of all this when I still was unsure what was going on and that is not fun. I really hope you're holding up alright and can hopefully find some longer term solutions.

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Thank you all so much for the amazing outpour of support so far. Much love

@PunishedTyke I don't think that "evens the scales" so to speak and merits the level of meanspiritedness people are throwing the author's way, but it definitely warrants legitimate criticism, it's a really poor point.

@indyneko111 It’s on them for bringing up short form video

@Tharizdun03 Is true, is true. There is definitely a significant part of this where it is just kinda inevitable given how tremendously big the game is.

@indyneko111 that's probably the problem tho. it's the 4th best selling game of all time. tremendously popular and tremendously acclaimed. it's just so big that any discourse about it will involve so many people.

@Tharizdun03 ...when I see people make a bunch of smoke in a Rockstar game's defense to this degree, there's always a part of me that's like really guys? This is the dev we're gonna go to bat for? But that's reactionary in multiple ways and not fully nuancing the context.

@Tharizdun03 I think I just saw a lot of like "tiktok brain, ADHD 😂" blowing up and was a bit sensitive to the tone of conversation. We're also in a context where Rockstar is by far one of the most unethical capitalistic titans of the industry, so at this point...

@Tharizdun03 Yeah I think the title of the article is a massive L, very obviously inflammatory clickbait especially given that the tone of the article is a lot more milquetoast than that headline leads you to believe. Very fair points

@indyneko111 you're free to call out on it ofc but i guess i see it as inevitable, especially if the article frames it as "let's ALL admit it is a bad game", "i don't understand the acclaim"; and "it should adapt to the shorter attention span audiences have today"

@Tharizdun03 ...in which it's pretty clearly an attempt at feeling superior to someone else. Same with the way "media literacy" has been warped and corrupted to mean "I disagree with you and I am better than you."

@Tharizdun03 The amount of people repeating ad nauseum "goldfish attention span" and "fried TikTok brain" in response to someone bringing up their own ADHD reads as thinly veiled ableism to me. These sentiments are not just limited to this article, but are repeated in many other contexts...

YOOOOOOO HELLO WHAT IS THIS????