This is the same kind of attitude that hobbled Jpop and allowed Kpop to take over internationally, so I'm not surprised.

Everything I’ve ever read about Japanese companies has left me with the impression that they’re really, really resistant to adapting to the way the outside world is rapidly changing. They’re very much in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mindset. Like, they’re still selling new Walkmans and cassette tapes, faxing…

Have spoken to way too many Trumpers, none of them really value free market, low taxes, or even family values. Not really.

Honestly, this sort of thing needs to be made illegal. Either the company is doing well enough for ALL employees to get raises/bonuses, or it isn’t and NOBODY gets raises/bonuses. And if a company is doing so poorly it has do fire people, nobody is getting a bonus or raises.

but what will we tell all those Republican voters who oppose this sort of stuff because if we place restrictions on these millionaires, then those same restrictions will apply to them once they’re millionaires thanks to their ingenuity or just good old-fashioned “pulling themselves up by their boot straps”? Who will…

We need laws setting CEO income caps. We’ve passed the point of absurd. Fuck this, fuck the rich, and fuck anyone who defends the idea that a single human “deserves” this level of wealth while the rest of the country plummets through one once-in-a-lifetime economic crash after another.

WOW, that’s a real bad take, chief. Pretty much everyone in my friend circle disliked TLoU2, and we’re about as far from what you described as imaginable. We’ve been bashing Trump since he took office, I’m pan, my best friend is a trans woman, and we all just about cried 4 years worth of grief out when Biden won the…

A remarkably small portion of the people who hated it hated it because of stupid bigoted reasons. The overwhelming majority of people who hated it hated it because it’s a nihilistic crapsack (go check tvtropes if you don’t get that crapsack’s a genre-thing and not me insulting to game) experience made by someone…

Anyone that votes for Trump is a white-nationalist. Any religious person is deluded, uneducated, homophobic, or transphobic. Any person that says “all lives matter” is a racist. Anyone that believes in restricting immigration is a xenophobe and thinks all non-white people should be in cages.

Each group always blames the individual for actions taken. To the far right those people weren’t acting as part of their agenda because they didn’t “obey the rule of law”; and the far left does the same thing... How many officers have been killed or injured as a direct outcome of the blm riots? How many of those…

“Liberal groups generally push for inclusion, sometimes at the expense of existing social structures.”

An analogy to help people understand this situation:

Granted Epic has it's own digital storefront now so they can fiddle around with their own percent take of each sale on the Epic Games Store. If Epic is so Gung-ho about changing the Status Quo they're more than welcome to create their own hardware and software ecosystem.

That was a good article but it neglects one key point: Fortnite is a F2P game. If Epic can bypass Apple Pay, that means that Apple will be hosting Fortnite on their platform without any compensation whatsoever. Fortnite provides entertainment, not utility, so it can’t be defended as an essential app.

Its what made assassin’s creed unique, the ground level traversal of dense cities. I personally think Unity is the apex of the series, delivering on the actual fantasy of being AN ASSASSIN, not a misthios or a medjay, but an assassin. Unity was flawed, and much maligned for a rushed launch, but I really with they had…

Man. I couldn’t disagree more. The protaganists were just...unlikeable, and the shift to the massive open world was just way too much. Miles wide, inches deep. The quests were never actually interesting and the whole greek mythology nonsense leaned hard away from history and into cheap sci-fi.

I’m still playing through Origins, with Odyssey on deck, but it struck me while I was creeping through the shadows of a fort and pouncing out to assassinate people: Ubi has 90% of a good vampire game series ready to go.

I just... can’t... get... behind... it.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: They have moved so far away from what Assassin’s was that they’ve now ended up closer to The Witcher 3.

I can’t even call Kassandra or Bayek “assassins.” They’re just... really skilled soldiers. The assassination techniques and…

They’re unfocused, repetitive, and mechanically shallow.  And the writing is perfunctory at best. 

To be honest; as a person of color, I found it to be one of the best. It was one of the 1st times in a western developed game I could play as a baddass who didn’t look like Nathan Drake; AND made the characters ethnicity a central part of the story.