The Exigent Duality
Mixed - 09:08 CST, 5/09/20 (Sniper)
Here is the John Linneman-Alex Battaglia duo's take on the Xbox live stream, which I briefly mentioned in this post.

I laughed at how neither of them knew who Patrick Mahomes was. They're both based in Germany though, so I can cut them some slack. Linneman singling out how the last major leap in sports games graphics was "NFL 2K" was spot-on. In fact, I remember seeing a "Madden 2000" PSX commercial on TV in fall of 1999 with its chunky pixel textures and 320x240 resolution, and laughing at how crappy it looked compared to the Dreamcast then sitting in my bed room; "NFL 2K" ran at 640x480, with full then-modern 3d accelerator features, like mip mapping, texture filtering, and so forth.

I'm with them that the re-emergence of space combat simulators is a good thing, and the lighting in that trailer looked really cool. But I'm not playing any more games with "woke" protagonists-- I'm firmly boycotting any game which promotes Frankfurt School bigotry, which is a position everyone should be taking: "social justice" is absolutely today's "KKK", and has no place in a civil society.

On that note, I was super excited about "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2", until I saw via Wikipedia that this woman is one of the, if not the, key writer for the project. Absolutely everything about her, from her "resume" to the "pronoun Twitter bio" red flag smacks of a case-in-point example of SJW infiltration into the hobby, for the sake of societal re-programming. I can virtually guarantee that "Bloodlines 2" is going to be a racist, sexist disaster.

The "The Ascent" game shows text saying "Workers!", then "Slaves!", which tells you it's going to be another Marxist-propaganda, "evil corporations" tropey affair. The underwater game looks kind of cool-- "Sea of Thieves" vibe? Finally, I've heard the "Yakuza" games described as spiritual "Shenmue" follow-ups, yet I've never played any of them. Maybe I should.