Alyssa Mercante's saved articles

Was the cure real? Did they act against Ellie’s wishes? Was Joel justified? These questions all share the same answer: dear god please fucking kill me I can’t do this anymore. Read more

I am so very tired of the “it’s just a game” or “not everything has to be political” comments in their attempts to deflect criticism. You can think one of two things about video games: Read more

It’s such amazingly bad writing and design. Why hang the animal husbandry tasks on a “we’re saving them” framework and then make the tasks so skeevy and exploitative? If the problem is poachers, why is the solution not “put a stop to the poachers” instead of “beat them to the animals”? Is this house-elf tricking you… Read more

It’s a real bummer when you read an article about something that is this creepy and causes so much genuine grief for women (not just “celebrities” but also people just trying to make a living doing a thing they love), and then you get to the comments and immediately get those fucking stupid “who?” comments or people… Read more

Fuck. Read more

several of whom Ewing is real-life friends with Read more

Coming back to this because it only just struck me he decided to keep his chat overlay on for his apology. Absolutely incredible.
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The thing I keep wondering is why is his wife just crying besides him through the video. If I were her I would not want my husband who already violated our friend’s and I’s trust to put my heartbreak on display for content.
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I think Overwatch 2 finally managed to kill my Overwatch habit, for better or worse. With Overwatch 1 I never missed a single event and I placed in every competitive season, but I barely touched this last Christmas event and didn’t finish my comp placements (Or rank adjustment? I’m confused like Mercante on this one). Read more

Good news for annoying people. Annoying people being me.

Strange Days is such a fun movie, I vividly remember watching it one Thanksgiving after lunch.  And I have seen it dozens of times. Read more

Fucking LOVE this movie!
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FomSoftware’s game design is so clever. I’ll give you one example in Elden Ring. When you first get out into the world you see a big knight on a big horse just walking back and forth on the same path. He’s just there and he’s egging you on. He’s almost impossible for you to beat this early on, but FromSoftware knows… Read more

Elden Ring (and more specifically, the Raya Lucaria Academy) was the first time in almost a decade that I was up all night gaming, which firmly placed it as the best game I played this year (although competition was stiff). Read more

Born This Way is the gift that keeps on giving. Ah the memories of having to hide this album from my parents.  Read more

Wow the comments are weirdly dramatic. This is obviously not a serious issue; I guess the humor got interpreted as pearl clutching? It’s also a perfectly fair criticism to say the presenters should dress more appropriately for an awards show. -Presenters- being the keyword for anyone screaming classism; no one cares… Read more