I like the Kotaku commentors, especially compared to the usual cesspoll of comment sections everywhere else on the internet.

I definitely get the icky-ness of putting values on people but I really can’t imagine that’s what’s happening here. I think that goal/idea makes sense and am surprised so many people are…

Yeah right now I see it more as a really nerdy & weird way to count stuff. If it really is ranking these features as better or worse, that’s incredibly shitty.

If it’s just for counting, I don’t hate that some math nerds made an attempt to count the ‘features’ in an effort to improve character diversity.

Ah, yeah I hear you.

Yeah but I would say that those aren’t “scores”. So defining one group as the value X and another group as value Y, doesn’t mean that X > Y or Y > X. They are just numbers being used to display the data. I can’t even imagine how these values could be used to count up to some ideal character, it makes more sense that…

I wonder though could this work if the “default” was something like a non-gender coded or non-binary inhuman/robot. So being male or female, or even human counts as deviation from the norm.

Like, could Zenyatta be the default, an asexual robot with no gender, an unspecified age, and a non-distinct body type.

Is it possible for a system like this to use 0 as undefined? Then go from there, so maybe male is -1 and female is 1. So veering too far from 0 could signify a lack of diversity or equality in that case.

Now what I would love a blog post about is if they ran this tool through their own employees and leadership. Would be more fun to see how things are skewing in who they employ and who they have in leadership positions.

I guess I’m missing what’s so egregious here. It’s a tool that visualizes their characters’ features.

Maybe I’m missing something but this is sort of my take. It’s just a visualization tool of how diverse their cast of characters is. I guess it just feels odd see it visualized in such stark numbers.

Well the environment and lighting look great. If the story is about how much everyone misses Batman, I can definitely get behind that sentiment.

It is interesting watching a company burn through so many years of customer goodwill so quickly.

He argued that the update requirement was “arbitrary,” since Apple did not specify what type of changes it was looking for. Motivoto was last updated in March 2019.

Ouch, this sounds like a tough spot for 343. They probably wore themselves out to get the game shipped, then the sort of lackluster reception from the fans leads to burn out when all that work doesn’t feel worth it or appreciated. Then there are demands or promises for more content at a time when the team as a whole…

This really sounds like some designers misunderstood the idea that “the best tutorial is one you don’t even notice”.

Yeah I think the review is mostly an attempt to get more eyeballs by being contradictory.

Well I like the idea that she’s using some of that money to hopefully bring a bit of maturity to the Twitch space. Heck if I was a streamer I’d definitely be getting in contact with her for some of that investment in Twitch content.

Oh cool maybe I’ll join and post later.

I had the same thing happen at the Austin GDC multiple years. I’m a person of color and every year the IGDA would host a party at some local bar. I lived in Austin so I always knew the bars and would get there a bit before the party got packed. Almost every year I had the same…

Why even have him be the main character?

I mean, you kinda get the fanbase that you cultivate.

But I’m happy she’s setting boundaries with her fans, if anything it’ll get rid of those that don’t respect that and maybe endear some fans that do.

Ah, so more videogame peeping toms mixed with a bit of hacking.