And the motivation for the People’s Republic of China to assassinate the head of a gaming studio is... ?

I have no PS3 and just Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut on Steam; am willing to mod. I also love season one of Twin Peaks, but not two. Should I play the first one?

Lmao

This would be a cool feature format if you decide to use it going forward. Reminds me in the best way of old gaming focused magazines. Some of those were great before they vanished into the aether from whence they came.

“Within the walls of our office, the trust between the staff and ownership has been eroded from years of abusive management. For too long, our employees have been kept in precarious, powerless, and outright toxic conditions.”

Unfortunately, OP insisted on arguing why such ideas are problematic in a historical, cultural and moral context rather than arguing their biological, psychological, and literary merit. The conversation’s far too subverted at this point to be productive for anyone involved.

So you’re saying I’ll be waiting 3 years to play new releases at the rate I play logs with an ever expanding backlog and the cost I tend to spend on a single game? A’ight. 

then followed by an attempt to depict me as morally irresponsible for not adhering to your same rigidity of word usage and presumption of malevolence in intent. [...] Your argument lies solely in the belief that I’m approaching my argument and my word usage from a morally objectionable position. [...] to posit that I…

I think you need to address a wider breadth of my statements and points, rather than pick out piecemeal and out of context lines that best serve your argument, before you imply that I have unaddressed implicit biases.

What if there was a version of D&D where the playable races were just different animal species? Would you attribute their stats to the differences in cultures and ideas of our world?

I’m usually an “I can often separate the art from the artist” kinda person, but knowing so many of my favourite games, a lot of them, come from the mind of a guy responsible for this. It’s hard to swallow.

It seems like tying in explicit and hard-coded stats into a race is relatively innocent at first (of course Orcs are stronger and Elves more charismatic or whatever).

I keep accidentally clicking on “Deadspin” articles and regretting it. 

This is kind of what I mean about the technicalities. It’s a legal question to be pursued by people with more expertise than I, for certain. All I know is fuck that guy now. 

Oh I mean, legally absolutely that should be looked at, I don’t disagree. I just mean for the average commentariat, focusing on that really just comes across as an attempt to minimize what is definitely gross and unethical at the very least.

Since nobody else has said it, this is why the call is for engaged and enthusiastic consent. Not implied consent, or assumed consent. The girl was 17, and he obviously wielded a substantial and outsized power and influence comparatively, regardless of the age of consent. If your partner seems uncomfortable or in pain…

The great thing about having a gigantic backlog is you can read an article like Kingdoms of Amalur is worth playing, think “damn, yeah, maybe it’s time to get around to that” boot it up and bam, 100 hours of entertainment you had sitting around.

I think of Hegel’s dialectic in The Phenomenology of the Spirit

Branagh talked about the choice, stating that, “[Colfer] had him preformed as an 11-year-old Bond villain. It seemed to me that for the audiences who were not familiar with the books, this would be a hard, a hard kind of thing to accept.”