Yesterday I watched a YouTube video about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. In it, various, gesturing gentlemen of the internet hail the new (and, for our money, pretty good) Warhammer 40K shooter as a throwback game that “radiates masculinity” without any over-the-top emotion or real-life social relevance. I then scanned the thousands of comments under the video in question. Many of them expressed a similar longing for the hypothetical Good Old Days, before those sly feminists got in on the act, turned every game into an LGBT+ sobbing simulator, and threw all the Real Men into a big hole. I did this because I was looking for a specific comment written by someone claiming to be Matthew Karch, the CEO of Saber Interactive, the developers of Space Marine 2.
Ah, thank you Horace, our comment system is working again
“Never read the comments” is a truism often rehearsed by veteran games journalists, but I've long since moved past that axiom and entered the new world of benevolent narcissism. I Always Read the comments, because all commenters are my children. They exist to uplift me and protect me in my senility. True, my kids occasionally … Read more