What’s extra shitty is that these wages that employees are earning don’t hold a candle to the city they live in. Irvine is expensive as fuck. 860k average home cost. Why work for 100k there when you can get that same salary elsewhere, in a cheaper state, and without state taxes? Especially now that work from home is a…

I just saw some crazy video yesterday about a woman in austin who was like a pharmacist or something but now pulls in 6 figures a month acting like a dog on her instagram and an onlyfans page so at this point I just figure everything in the world is stupid enough that every idiotic notion and trend will bubble its way…

Not a knock on you, Zack, but if a game came out today with that kind of busy style they would get destroyed in the reviews for looking outdated including here on kotaku, maybe even by you, after you posted this article.

Even if we assume that there’s no racist connotation (and no *possible* way anyone could harness it to be racist), it could still very much be used for harassment purposes due to this being a multiplayer shooter (which are notorious for having toxic players) and the direct relationship of a noose with the concept of…

It was a fitting spray in isolation.  Trouble is that as you point out that the spray didn’t exist in isolation.  This was a cosmetic item used in conjunction with player interaction.  And much like how giving players a drawing tool will inevitably lead them to drawing a penis, this spray inevitably would have lead to…

Taken in the context of the character I understand what you’re getting at.  But the problem is that this doesn’t just have implications with the character of McCree but also with how the players will use it.  That noose spray was almost always used in the context of “hanging” another character as people would overlay…

An image they made several years ago probably wasn’t exactly on their radar until someone pointed it out at a meeting. At which point they probably went “oh, you’re right, let’s fix that”.

Clearly you never played Tina Tiny’s Assault on Dragon Keep

The notion that entire, sentient races are naturally predisposed to certain levels of intelligence, or moral alignments, is baked into the game. That’s not the same as talking about “good and bad sides”.

You can’t argue that pop culture doesn’t influence actual culture in a country with a reality TV star as the president.  

I saw someone on Twitter put it like this: we shut off the water to fix a broken pipe, but now we are turning the water back on without bothering to actually fix the pipe.

It is in ways a little messed up that within the corporate world there is a heavy-handed mentality of guilty-until-proven-innocent. When a company submits a DMCA claim, the accused is presumed guilty and their content is immediately suspended/removed and the onus is on the accused to prove their innocence.

Except they don’t need Anthem to salvage their brand. They have Dragon Age coming, likely well before the Anthem relaunch, and if it doesn’t save them it’s highly, highly, highly unlikely that Anthem can.

Cousin Oliver. 

...you do know Salvador is maybe all of 5' tall, right?

Replace DJ with Cena for Brick, and barring getting David Eddings back- Chris Tucker for Claptrap (he has that Fifth Element energy in there somewhere, I refuse to believe it’s dead).

Emma Stone, Winston Duke, Diego Luna, Dwayne Johnson. There’s your vault hunters. If you can’t get Stone, get Karen Gillen and fully embrace the Jumanji On Meth vibe. Give Cate Blanchett some makeup and a CG arm and let her play Helena Pierce if you insist on casting her in the movie.

Dude. Cate Blanchett getting cast in an Eli Roth driven Borderlands (aka a garbage fire) would no more grant legitimacy to video game movies than Bob Hoskins did for them in Super Mario Brothers.

Thankfully, I’d never heard of this guy before, but it seems to me that he’s a miserable piece of shit and he got what he deserved, Good riddance, garbage boi.