“which is the nature of any game, people will gravitate and just like playing the one thing they enjoy”

what is this ayn rand’s guide to marx for babies?  have you read a single page of marx?

At least now Kobe can be a rapist in peace.

because cars are safer than helicopters?  right.

Because apologizing for kobe expresses sympathy for dead children.... somehow.

Ah so you dont understand the point, because you dont understand argument. Disappointing. We debate things that dont have answers as if they did. This generates changes in consensus, standards, goals, &etc.  Its pretty simple.

Except for you sweetums. But you’re just a moron.  Damn.

“I shouldn’t have to, continually, apologise for Lovecraft’s racist and supremacist attitudes just because I like the ideas and the entertainment I consume is inspired by them. It serves no purpose.”

Pretty sure the desire is to avoid hagiography/cults of genius, and, you know, treat things honestly.

Of course the free palestine guy gotta main the champ with the Arabic name. Not really, but it is a lil funny. Wonder if the name influenced him initially.

What is the dishonest argument you think I’m pushing?

“Yeah, because it is. You’re screaming at people “.

They did focus on what you call “gameplay” related features (pretty sure character creation is a gameplay feature as well, butanyways...). Thats not a reason, its a fact. The *reason* they focused on what they focused on would be something like “other shooters dont incorporate different ballistics based on ammo and…

Meanwhile, coming here telling people they’re wrong and only talking because they want to virtue signal, on your part, is just... Letting everyone know you’re a hard thinking contrarian who isn’t taken in by all that PC bullshit. Congratulations, you win.

The argument is not that everything should cater to everyone. The argument is games should have good reasons for catering to whom they choose to cater. That ideally, many decisions should be the object of conscious intention and discussion.

Second only in righteousness to he who runs around insulting people for being “righteous.” If only we could be as self satisfactorily ambivalent as him, express as much fervor in support of caring as he does in *not* caring. Truly a saint among men.

At what point is it ok to use someone’s artistic choices to infer something about the content of their character? Or, even more generally, to say that they behave in a way that exacerbates various social ills, that makes the world worse, that is bad, evil?

And Triumph of the Will was a movie made by Germans. Who cares?

How do you encourage diversity in videogames without looking at the process of production/design for specific games, relating that process to the design outcome, and “attacking” the elements of the process that you believe produce the outcome?

So according to you, you can either say hey you have carte blanche to do whatever you want, I dont give a shit, or express a substantive opinion that may or may not agree with whatever gets decided. But if you do give an opinion, and stand by it, you are controlling them and preventing them from doing whatever they…