They’re not “needed.” It’s more a question of “why not?”

Eh... he doesn’t have the same views on women as Pence, he just hates the internet drama and shitshow train. Pence believes he can’t be alone with a women because they can’t be trusted. Ninja believes that regardless of what either parties do, that the literal children and teens that watch him will drum up false shit…

You might be right, but it was true (at least, that’s the idea) for thousands of years. Personally, I kinda of believe is still true in some sense; for example, whenever I have been in an emergency and “Kids and women evacuate first” without exception, we all agree. And that’s the way it should be as kids and women…

Archetypes exist for a reason. They are easy to understand, universal and general. And I believe that’s what Nintendo is after. Yes, they might crash with our current ideas of roles and gender, but this is just ingrained with the psyche. Nintendo is always slow to get with the times but still, that’s not always bad.

After thinking about it for a few days.. there is nothing wrong with Blizzard making a mobile Diablo game (or “multiple mobile games”, as has been reported since). We survived Nintendo making mobile games, we can survive Blizzard doing it.

But I think that BlizzCon was absolutely the wrong place to announce Diablo…

I’m so tired of seeing this pointlessly reductive description of the show’s ethos. It’s never actually been “people who care about things are dumb”, it’s more of “some people will pretend to care about fashionable causes purely for the sake of their image/ their own ego, rather than out of any genuine altruism”. Which…

“That people who are being self-rightous about things are dumb and deserve to be mocked.”

Subtle difference.

I’m not sure that’s a fair take.

The reason Louis CK and South Park did those bits a decade ago (and wouldn’t do them nowadays) is not because they were just randomly feeling really edgy and offensive, but because the cultural zeitgeist at the time was very much focused on the discussion regarding the power of slurs…

Is it hard to wake up every morning just begging to find shit to get offended about and self-victimize yourself over?

/rant

Activision/Blizzard is a massive corporation, and the people in that audience are paying customers. Comparing this to a murder and casting Blizzard as the victim is irrational hyperbole and gross.

I reject that notion as reductive.

We had a fascinating slack/breakroom discussion about this at our studio, and the take-way was that neither the fans or the Immortal devs are really to blame or deserve scorn. It’s those who made the behind the scenes choices leading up to this past weekend that truly deserve the ire.

So are you going to boycott and criticise everything produced by Riot Games even though some of their stuff is made by the very female employees you are white knighting? I guess Riot Games should just disappear, I’m sure all their employees, including the female ones, would be more than happy with having to find new…

You’re misinterpreting me contrasting consumers being labeled as ‘entitled’ when they are vocal about hopes and wants from those billion dollar companies with those companies themselves never being labeled as anything when they successively do not meet, or move counter to those vocal wants, wants voiced for a decade,…

It *was* marketed to them. They announced this shitty reskin of a Chinese mobile game to an exclusively western, PC-focused, English-speaking audience, who I will remind you paid to be there. It was marketed to Blizzard’s core fanbase, and no one in that fanbase wants Diablo Immortal.

Nor should they expect it. I agree it’s a bad idea and not what i want. What will i do with this turn of events? Not play it and maybe check out Path of Exile. This Gamers Rise Up bullshit is just embarrassing. They don’t care how angry you rage on reddit. They care if they don’t make money on it. No amount of reddit…

“Again, I’ll ask: How would you know any of that? You haven’t played it. And Nathan didn’t say any of that, other than it has similar mechanics to some existing mobile games.”

They should kill it with fire, destroy any evidence and pretend this never ever happened.