I steal from everybody. Shit, Gabe, reading was never supposed to be for everybody. Universal literacy is virtually an American invention. Novels are for people who are comfortable using their brains, and we all know that isn't the whole human race. Reading garbage is no better than watching garbage on TV or any other pointless time-filler.
Garbage is garbage, whether it comes on a page or in a game cartridge.
Better that than supporting the aforementioned shitty fantasies that crowd the good stuff off the shelves. If this makes me sound like an elitist snob, it's only because I am. I'd like to talk a bit about this Next Wave of creators. While I think that there has been a bit of a cultural tilt throughout all forms of media, it's quite noticeable in speculative fiction. Somebody needs to shake up this pile of crap before it collapses under the weight of its own irrelevance.