Glad to see you back!

I began reading this site a few years back after hearing Lusipurr on RPGCast and picked up listening here because of the straight forward, no frills tone and a complete lack of the politically correct nonsense that at the time was just becoming the standard for the big commercial sites. Despite a few arguments and pledges to leave, I tended to come back after a few months simply because an honest voice in gaming discussion is hard to come by. And with all this conspiracy level stuff coming out, it dwarfs any criticisms I might have had for any of the hosts here.

You guys might be prickly, but by god, you’re not the sort of lying, double-faced shits that the modern gaming world has appointed it’s voices. Keep on doing what you do. Gaming needs voices like yours to give it the backbone that all these corporate dogs have failed to produce.

“Free speech, but only as long as I control the discussion and agree with the speech.” — What a shameful, disreputable, deplorable lot. Utterly devoid of credibility. A disgrace.

@Mel: An entire console generation has come and gone since 15’s announcement, which isn’t to say they have been working on it that entire time.

Perhaps. It’s not actually that unusual for large-scale AAA titles to have very long development times. Square Enix is rather bad about announcing their progress earlier than other companies, but I don’t think that their ‘world-changing blockbusters’ are, on the whole, so much longer in development than other similar projects.

Note that when one guy seeks clarification about when private actions constitute the public interest, there is a whole conga-line of arseholes waiting to jump on him and tell him he’s an idiot. It’s not often that you see such thoroughly unpleasant self-policing, so it is probably no surprise when journos are reluctant to step out of line with the thinking of their fellows. These people are nasty, and hate opinions that come into conflict with their own.

-The more I think about the existence of this mailing-list, the more wide-ranging the implications become. I have often thought it odd that ‘professional’ reviews so closely mirror one another, and just chalked it up to the first few to be posted serving to set the tone for the others. Now the most reasonable explanation is that reviewers have been discussing the games among themselves for weeks before hand, and that they have long since reached a common consensus by the time they sit down to write the review.

What then happens if one day they decide that sexy imagery is inappropriate for video games, and they decide as one to maul the next Dragon’s Crown?

At this point it just seems sensible to believe by default any conspiracy theory regarding the gaming press, because it’s beginning to feel like every last one of them is true [or like they are possibly even understatements].

Time to reap the whirlwind.