Same energy.

Welcome to the New World Order, where there’s no such thing as benefit of the doubt. If someone publicly accuses you of something, that’s what you are.

Is it really that questionable to hire Hardwick? Accusations were made, investigated, and apparently didn’t come up with proof to back it up. The accuser kinda backed down as well given she didn’t want to help with the investigation. I mean what do you do at that point? Just decide he’s guilty without any real proof…

This one is far deeper into the grey area than you claim, though it’s also not cut-and-dry against you, either.

Halo is not a military simulation... yet

“we want all fans to see themselves reflected”

Remember kids, disemboweling your enemies is just fine but seeing a nipple will corrupt you forever!

Seeing Sub Zero ripping out a spine is perfectly ok but God forbid a nipple is shown. Fuck do we have shit ass backwards.

Valve is in their right because it’s their platform, not because of your arbitrary morality that is fine with murdering prostitutes to get your money back (or are you Puritans back to wanting GTA banned?).

I think it’s kinda ridiculous that rape is where they draw the line. Yeah it’s grotesque but how is violently dismembering people not? Really, what’s the difference between them? Games like Mortal Combat, where dismemberment is gone into excruciating detail, sit on the store page and no one bats an eye.

But just murder is fine? Kidnapping, torturing, and genocide, all fine? Did the characters in those games give consent to do any of that? Other arguments exist no doubt but consent is certainly not one of them.

“Consensual sex - OK! Rape and murder- Not OK!”

So the distinction here is the victim’s emotional state immediately before being murdered? There are plenty of games that allow you to murder terrified and defenseless civilians. GTA, Red Dead, Hitman, Watch_Dogs, Kane & Lynch, Call of Duty, Sleeping Dogs, Assassin’s Creed, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Just Cause, Saints…

Consensual sex - OK! Rape and murder- Not OK!

I don’t understand why anyone would find this disturbing and not the GTA series. You must consider rape to be worse than murder. In GTA you can beat innocent people to death with a baseball bat, steal their money, then shoot the police who show up to arrest you.  Why the lack of outage there?  Murder is okay but rape…

I mean, I don’t really want to defend a fucking RAPE game here, because frankly, a game like this probably shouldn’t even exist. But it now does exist... and so I feel somewhat compelled to question why rape in games crosses a line, as where the endless stream of games that allow you to STRAIGHT FUCKING MURDER PEOPLE…

SEXUAL TORTURE BAD

You can be right about scoops but biased about other things. As much as I respect Jason Schreier as an individual, views like this are definitely biased:

I don’t think being upset about false advertising is “ridiculous”. Being lied to about what you’re getting out of a product is extremely shitty and is why consumer protection laws exist.

And many of US are tired of $60 games that ship fucking *broke*. You know what never got patched? Super Mario Bros. Either you’re an entitled teen/twentysomething gamer with NO sense of history or you're a Xennial/Xer who has forgotten your roots.