@psychlops: Abandon a bad hand with a talent with a half-year long cooldown, only to get another bad hand.

By the way, it's not "poorly considered", not by my viewpoint. It's "poorly considered" because of your own viewpoint.

That said, I have just played it again recently. My description of the awful card game still stands.

@simonthekid7: How would I know the exact amount? The only data that I recall was some data-mining of the number of Steam installations of the game.

@Radnen: Good fucking grief.

I hadn't been in GameSpot's news articles and such for years, and there are still commenters like you around remarking "Are you paid for this?" and shit.

Occam's Razor: There are some GameSpot editors who are hella into Grindstone, and they are using their privilege to post any shit on Grindstone.

This is why I don't do go into articles like this; reading remarks like yours make me regret ever doing so.

@kletoskletos: Okay, I toggled it the other way.

@kletoskletos: I don't know. I haven't messed around with the settings on my message features for a long, long time. Maybe something changed with the default settings? I wouldn't know; I haven't been following GameSpot's site development efforts for years.

That said, I am replying to you because I thought of checking my GameSpot messages these past few days. Despite my regular posting of reviews, I actually haven't been active in GameSpot for a long while now.

@kletoskletos: Oh sorry, I somehow missed this.

I just don't check my messages on GameSpot much anymore, by the way. Sorry.

Is there some bug with notifications going around?

@kletoskletos: No. Unlikely.

I am not interested in upgrading my computer just to play the AAA's. Prices for state-of-the-art computer parts are also awful where I am. I don't want consoles. Many of the AAA game-makers are also in my blacklist.

@kletoskletos: It is a matter of whimsy. Consider Guybrush Threepwood (of Monkey Island) exclaiming that he wants to be a pirate when he washed up on a beach; it's that kind of whimsy.

That said, I don't play AAA titles these days. I don't have console machines and my computer can't run any of the computer versions of those games.

@Amanojaku8: Heck I know. Fanboys who make accounts just to complain about a review don't stay for long.