Alvin Row

When they were having the discussion about the "Perfect Gem Activated" thing or the vase in Desert Golfing I couldn't stop thinking back to the Pendant in Dark Souls, which had a similar mystery surrounding it; an especially interesting experience considering how esoteric most of the systems in that game were.

Though it might be bad for discourse, the ability to express a less-than-popular sentiment without attaching it to one's public persona is valuable in situations where the subject of debate impassions to the point that people might draw negative conclusions about a person's character based on a single argument. And that guy definitely was talking a lot of shit that would be reputation destroying here.

I was going to make a snarky comment about dead hardware but it struck me that the rear touchpad could actually be used for some pretty interesting stuff when utilized by smart people like everyone working at Campo Santo.

I feel like the discussion regarding games journalism (criticism included) and integrity has been all but entirely corrupted by the fact that Zoe Quinn happened to be a vocal feminist. I mean this in both the sense that many of the people calling it out on Twitter or other social media aren't doing it out of genuine concern for the legitimacy of games journalism and are instead doing it because they have a personal issue with Zoe's feminist beliefs the people who carry a feminist or more social justice oriented perspective are only seeing the anti-feminists and then assuming that everyone arguing that side of the debate is doing so for similar reasons. This feels unfair because a real conversation about what constitutes the the line between professional and personal relationships in games journalism has every right to exist, minus all the spare baggage that goes along with the professional shouting match that is a modern social justice debate.