i get that you have to refer to the female characters as “young girls” for the sake of your argument’s creepy subtext—but these characters are clearly not children. i feel like you’re deliberately infantilizing adult female characters—which is of course it’s own problematic media trope.

there are many great combat games that involve killing/dying in a single hit. it’s not that the developers don’t know how to make this style challenging–it’s that they prefer padding out their games with combat that merely looks challenging but is actually just filler. 

starvation deaths on frontier lands, due to engineered and accidental famines aren’t necessarily violent.

you’re off by about a decade regarding ‘don’t mansplain’

russia is actually much more violent now than in the days of the soviet  union...

“But things got ugly when the studio equated antiwar comments with spam and tweeted: “We do not, and will not, condone contributors or spammers with offensive, hateful, discriminatory, violent, or threatening language or content.”

the artists have even paid out of their own pockets to pimp out the productions beyond the scope of what the NFL is expecting. i’m not sure what rihanna’s budget was but i’m guessing she splurged a bit, in exchange for making a truckload on increased streaming and digital downloads in the days and weeks to come.

i buy games because i think i’ll have fun with them—period. spending money on games for political reasons is a luxury for those with a disposable income. and i say that for people buying any game for any “political” reason. towards what end is spending money on games i will never play? how does that actually benefit…

no, the sponsors pay for the production and expenses. the artist typically makes an enormous amount of money through streaming and digital purchases due to the exposure. 

it is absolutely crazy wild that you start a paragraph criticizing impossibly smooth, barbie doll vaginas only to end it by criticizing modders from adding them in—and that presumably it was done by men... even though, you, a woman, also pointed it out? 

while i feel a lot of sympathy for these employees, especially if this is their first job, they really do need to just get a reality check and find better jobs. gamestop will never improve, it will implode. 

i suspect this is a very crucial aspect of sony’s argument. COD puts out a game every year (usually)—activision provides stability, saleswise, to both consoles, allowing them take their cut and more safely invest in their very expensive game development—essentially risk free.

good to know. i honestly love the dualsense and was curious how it could actually be improved upon. it’s probably my favourite controller thus far.

i think it’s fair to note that they haven’t ever had a sale, considering that the developer has described it as a deliberate choice—matched with the fact that it’s a very popular title on steam, a platform that regularly offers heavy discounts. 

not everyone is bad though, and i’m not sure i would leave it to the public to decide what is what, given their very limited point of view. 

i could’ve been more clear. i’m not talking about accountability for criminal behavior—i’m talking about being accountable to the public for something as basic as your personality, which was the first thing OP mentioned. like, it’s a genuine stretch to think that the way that a person is understood “parasocially”, in…

you do know there was a time when game developers were semi-anonymous and not required to submit their personal lives to public accountability, right? do you think that’s normal, and should be expected of every artist?

the shape of the console is pretty ingenious. by avoiding any flat surfaces it maximizes heat transfer throughout the body of the console, regardless of which way its stored—because there will always be at least two large gaps between it and anything else. this will theoretically increase the life of the console…

i think the OP’s overall critique goes a bit deeper though—like, even the original games were never great stealth games. people treat the gaming experience like it was this pure assassin experience, despite it always being rather on rails. the comparison to Hitman never stuck because the AI in the AC games is not very…

not exactly. if you’re programmed to chase icons, then icons is all you’ll find. i suggest turning off some of the more intrusive GUI and just exploring Odyssey. its rendition of Ancient Greece really is a sight to behold.