Yeah... and I clicked the article hoping to read some legit insightful commentary on the state of sex in games. Instead, this reads more like a random excuse to point and laugh.

That little snake face is so damn adorable :D

Thank you for posting these. They always put a smile on my face :)

If you go down and read the replies, it’s pretty clear that the community downvoted that post because at that point, the mod who wrote the apology continued to refuse to lift a ban on the user in question even after they received confirmation that they had banned the wrong person.

Funny enough: I’m in the opposite shoes right now! I’m just starting FFIX myself for the first time. Got to level 5 this morning, and that’s after playing WoW and other MMOs for years.

She still suffers a bit from Square Enix “muppet face”. I don’t know why their animators think that flexing the jaw and ignoring the cheek muscles somehow translates into realistic emotion.

We both clicked on it though. I’m with you, but unfortunately the damage has already been done. The only take-away from this for the sites editors will be that “Sasha drives clicks”.

Someone on the right says something stupid, and the rest of the right ignores it while the left makes hay out of it.

And Communism is even a muddy term in and of itself! The Soviets and their ideology was so rooted in the particulars of Russian values and history that it’s honestly very difficult to sort out where political ideology ends and where culture begins when trying to define it all.

In covering the Epic Games Store, Kotaku has written about how the consistent, perpetual rage over its mere existence

“Moral high ground”.

I mean, I also remember community management wasn’t easy fifteen years ago either, and I’m also pretty sure that regardless of justification, you don’t call your customers names?

Is it okay if I cry a little bit because I want a Ghibli Star Wars and I know it’s never going to happen?

If you give someone money, you are absolutely entitled to expressing a negative opinion when that person does something you don’t like. You’re not entitled to harass people, ever, but this didn’t start with harassment. The harassment came after a series of gaffs and oddly antagonistic statements made by the devs. Some…

They are (or were) crowdfunding through patreon, in which they stated on at least one occasion that Steam would be a thing. This is partially why they gained attention for taking the Epic deal in the first place.

If people give you money, that absolutely entitles them to complain. And if you read the conversation threads (not all of them were faked or taken out of context), it’s pretty clear that these devs took a very hostile stance from the beginning.

Great, let’s play they “my media source is better than yours” game. Even though Yong (the youtuber) directly addresses the faked quotes as part of the news story.

“honestly the biggest reason we didn’t do a kickstarter is we didn’t want to deal with entitled baby gamers holding even more power over us.”

Don’t disagree with anything you just said, but how do we go about “policing our own” when the label of “gamer” is so broad as to include millions of people who we likely have little in common with, other than a basic ‘interest’ in entertainment that is interactive?

If you get harassed, that’s definitely the fault of the harasser.