The Last of Us - an exercise in alignment

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You’ve got to play this game. This is what my best friend told me every day for a year. This is what the internet screamed out to me, every time a page was loaded up, it was like the virus had escaped from the confines of the game to infect the world. Its purpose was to force the game down your throat and make you play it, aligning its sales goals with borderline fanaticism. It was something that served to put my…