Bye bye, Learn to Counter

And now, with the inevitable removal of Learn to Counter from my Feedly list, I officially no longer follow any quasi-/pseudo-professional gaming news/blog sites whatsoever. Any awareness about future video game shit will simply come from Steam/GOG release/sale notifications, most of which I ignore anyway because very few of them tend to interest me much at all, and whatever actually cool stuff I may happen to hear about in SBFP or Angry Joe videos or second hand via owsf2000 or rabbitucker or whoever else. Basically, what I am saying is that I'm just going to rely on essentially "word of mouth" for whatever trickle of video game related news I consume from now on.

Want to know what finally led me to drop LTC? It was the following paragraph from near the end of Mr. Lowell's impression of Arkham Knight:

"Otherwise, I'm sure the game is going to take a ton of shit because the scrublord PC gamers were too poor to buy a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One and chose to download the game on the PC, and they'll be taking it out on the game. Don't listen to them, they're morons. This is the first Arkham game which teeters on something I'd consider 'good'."

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