Very interesting to me how people hear "actor A improvised this" and always conclude "the other character's reaction was Actor B's genuine reaction" instead of "Actor B did what they thought their character would do in that situation"
Anodyne, their previous game, had a very compelling world with (i don't use this term lightly) an avant-garde story. Some troglodytes who can't handle a little mystery in their lives hated that the ending didn't explain the whole story, so we got the trash heap of EtO's ending.
Even the Ocean (2016) tbqfh and i'm ready to rant about it at any given moment because it's ENTIRELY thanks to players not understanding the excellent previous game by that team
@captainfrookie A claypollo search on here usually just gives a bunch of people complaining about how popular it is and like if it's so popular why are you all I'm finding
As an academic writer, it can take an expert in my field several hours of volunteer time just to verify the correctness of my papers. Multiply it by a few hundred, and a non-expert would still have "is this significant enough to publish" on their to-do list.
Academic journals might be a lost cause but they'd probably be better if you had some non-academic practitioners serving as reviewers. Journalists have their problems too but they have much better bullshit detectors, for instance.
Reading The Razor's Edge in senior lit class. I ask "Was the author gay?" He was. Everybody wants to know how i knew. I think of the narrator describing in vivid detail the male protagonist's arm hanging over the back of a seat and how it made his triceps look. I say "gaydar."