thank you. solid take.

you saying Legend of Zelda is more popular than @randomdudewithbeard1987? NO WAY

I mean maybe, just MAYBE, if your content is contingent on playing nice with someone else’s intellectual property — especially a notoriously litigious company like Nintendo — it would be a good idea not to do something they’re known for getting pissy about?

What sort of knuckle dragging mouth breather doesn’t think there are any politics in One Piece?

detract from the world that these people have spent years of their life building.

Based, but also: “twitch star” is not a combination of words that should exist.

Hey do you know what an allegory is

They usually can’t define it because what it really means to them is: “A slur I’m still allowed to say”

Gamers aren't oppressed, but they *should* be.

Anyone who uses the term “woke” to downplay something has typically been unable to actually give me a definition of what the word even means. They just don’t like it, so therefore it’s “woke”.

This world is becoming dumber, I swear..

It was wild how passionately people proclaimed that for a while there.

...which then proceeded to prove that the lasting audience for such a thing was as tiny as these competitive players’ peens.

And in doing so they learned an important lesson, just like all the hardcore arena shooters (Reflex, Toxxik, Diabotical, Quake Champions) that have tried to find footing in the last decade - exclusively gearing your game toward the fanatical veteran players isn’t a great business model.

It was truly astonishing how out-of-touch with a general audience the Wildstar devs were. The “attunement” grind for their raid instances was pulled straight from World of Warcraft... something that WoW dropped pretty much entirely after Burning Crusade, because outside of a small handful of raiders that loved the…

Yes, she was the "reality show cinnamon roll" of Strip Search and it's so exciting to see her talent being recognized!

Seriously tho. They deserve all the press they can get. Their games are so much a labor of love, and so time intensive to script, and draw for, let alone program. Unpaid promotion over.

I remember back in the day when I actively played World of Warcraft. Nearing the tail end of Cataclysm, the rift between “hardcore” raid and PvP players and “casual scrubs” was reaching a crescendo, and throughout the raiding guild I was in, were whispers of “WildStar;” a game that understood what “real MMO fans”…

She was one of the contestants (and finalists!) in Penny Arcade’s reality TV show Strip Search (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZRIC6PMEFmsifnzKPim7L1weoKpDkiD)

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Adult Swim may also be culpable. I browsed some of the DM screenshots that he doesn’t deny came from him account, in one of them he invites a 15 y/0 to adult swim party type events and promises to come down and get her through the door. This particular girl passed but it’s highly unlikely this was the only time he did…