It’s just the Japanese term. Maybe he’s used to using the term, or maybe he’s using it as a sign of respect for the product’s country of origin. Language is cool like that. I myself like to call it Salty Black Grain Sauce.

There MAY have been a typo in the year Richard put in the original article...

I agree, though I think it may have just been a matter of it being ahead of its time than it was a concentrated backlash. It would work now simply because the cross-pollination between Western and Japanese entertainment culture is so strong, whereas then it was a niche subculture that didn’t really get any respect...…

I think a lot of control-related things that are complaints in this article aren’t really a problem in KB+M.

The sad thing is those games were amazing games in their own right. Anachronox is easily one of the best western CRPGs of its time (and debatably of all time). And Oni had amazing, dynamic boss fights that had a very clear impact on games that followed it.

No, and that’s why I personally seek out this kind of article. It lets me know when I’m doing stuff unintentionally. And this kind of article/discussion IS one way women can tell us when we’re crossing the line.

It is absolutely on men, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. What I wanted to say is that we have blinders on because SOME of this behavior (not the stuff that Tsui was talking about in her article, that shit should have been obviously over the line for that guy) is us thinking we’re being companionable and friendly…

I’m sorry you don’t like my response to the article. I don’t know what else I should say except to reiterate that I read these articles because I need to know what it’s like on the other side. Because if I don’t understand that, I can’t really support gender equality in a meaningful way.

The reason why we have to be told is because one of the overriding rules regarding women that gets drilled into us by our experiences with women, by our parents’ examples and teachings, by popular media, and the adolescent grapevine is that women don’t always say what they want or mean (which is also why some men…

Does it make you uncomfortable because she does it too often (and maybe ends up being a perverse sort of fat-shaming), because you worry she’s being disingenuous, or for some other reason?

Thanks for this, and the link to the original article. Those of us on the other side of this equation (males) don’t really understand the full impact our behavior has on the women around us. Often we genuinely think this shit really is innocent and do it without thinking about it.

Yeah, those Borrowers, always acting like they’re big stuff.

I’m 6’2” also, and I have a hard time believing anyone who tells me I’m intimidatingly large. Mostly I just feel like a normal height except when I’m trying to fit into places designed for short people.

My Aid category is half my carry weight all by itself. It’s gotten to the point where I’m consciously IGNORING food when I find it... and meds are an excruciating decision every time I find them.

Maybe their algorithm for determining the play of the game takes into account how many commendations various plays get from players... meaning that when a bunch of players commend a bizarre choice, it weights similarly bizarre choices more heavily in the future.

Despite the fact that both the videos are currently private, this really makes me want to play ROTTR. What else makes me want to play ROTTR? That initialism.

Ever since this stuff started reaching boiling point with the Redskins’ name, I’ve been thinking the smart PR move would be to not only change the name, but do it by letting Native Americans decide the new name.

Power, agency, and self-fulfillment (and wish-fulfillment) are core elements of many religions. It seems to me that the question is fundamentally “what ELSE would video games need to be able to do to start a religion?”

One paradigm isn’t better or worse than another in and of itself, but some commend themselves better than others because they’re easier to wrap your head around.

X/A and O/B as forward vs backward progress only make sense if you’re tied to the Western paradigm. In most Japanese games, X is the back button, O is the confirm/forward button.