Can we settle on a style guide standard whereby we never call these stupid influencers by their handles after the initial introduction? Writing an entire article about the beef between “Ice Poseidon” and “Coffeezilla” and continuing to use those absurd names throughout, just proves that we’re truly in the dumbest…

Yeah, “despite” is not the best word choice. “Because” would be more apt.

Why do you say ‘despite’? There’s a pandemic going on, it’s not like people are going out and walking around or going to movies in theaters much or going to stores. People in general are staying at home. Which means in-home entertainment. Which means stuff like videos on demand and, yes, video games. And when they’re…

Transphobia is bigotted hatred and shouldn’t be encouraged. Trans rights are human rights, and trans identity is as valid as CIS identity.

There may well be people who played football because they enjoyed playing Madden. Some of those people may have sustained TBI from it.

So this “drama” is actually just two people on Twitter, archived by Barstool Sports? Cool cool cool.

Right?

“ star monsterback on a powderpuff team”

Are people actually implying football’s popularity is due to a video game, and not the other way around?

So... a guy who doesn’t even work for Blizzard anymore, goes on a right-wing Discord and post some stuff Kotaku writers don’t agree with. Quick, write a story with the Blizzard logo as the main image.

Agreed all around. Krampus appearing should be in a totally separate limited time mode. Sure it’s “just a game”. But the game is a super competitive battle royale. Having a random ai character run around totally changes the original intent. I play a lot of Rocket League. If the devs decided during the last 30 seconds…

My point would be that you don’t appear to understand competitive CoD or Football.  But hey, if getting upset about people getting upset makes you happy, go for it.  LOL

Or, here’s another take.

Seriously. We’re getting to some pretty absurd demands about who can and should play characters.

OK, but if you’re going to say a term isn’t offensive because some members of the group use the term to refer to themselves, then we’ve got a real problem when it comes to the n-word.

Were you not just arguing for the importance of context, and now you’re arguing against it?

Words like “cracker” were used to call out individuals engaged in white supremacy and systemic oppression of other races.

Nice false dichotomy.

Context absolutely matters, and pretending it doesn’t is either extremely ignorant or deliberately dishonest.

Unsurprising. It was a garbage fire, from top to bottom. Not one redeeming thing about it. People watched it, gave it a shot, and then dropped it like a bad habit.