If this were any other point in history, I’d agree with it being gross but ultimately understandable in terms of having a vision for your game, and doing what you can to create a character as irredeemably shitty as possible for the sake of conveying the intended experience.

I don’t know if they’re nazi’s per se (though I do think if it quacks like one and flies like one, it’s a duck). I think they’re just edge lords who hate the idea of anyone telling them not to do something regardless of the reasons why.

I’m glad someone with some authority came around and basically said “hey you…

If they had simply come out with the “We understand the feeling, but we are making a game with the intent of containing the worst kinds of people” explanation, it would still be kinda gross but more understandable.

Its about the 1488 not the Iron Cross.

As a fellow Destiny aficionado, this is the best description I’ve seen in years. See you star side, my friend.

Anthem doing the opposite of Destiny. So release an unflawed product and breaking it with updates? 

All you need to know before playing Forsaken: Destiny is a fantastic game developed and updated by a group of people who do not seem to understand why people like it, who keep changing things for the worse or breaking things for the better, and who will inevitably fall on their faces while simultaneously lodging their…

And a tiny voice cries out in the silence, while the flood of players welcomes this expansion with open arms. Appreciate the protest, but the hype is too real for this DLC. 

No, this is Nirvana.

Believe me, I’ve been embarrassed to call myself a gamer for decades.

Let me take you one step further:

Polygon is reporting that the shooter’s motivation was primarily because he lost a game of Madden.

Its not a clip, it’s a video.

Shooting in area where guns aren’t allowed: “See? Gun bans don’t work!”

Totally understood—and before anything else, I owe you an apology for my own hostility. I teach, and as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I have confronted a student with a gun during my career; this particular topic is very close to my heart, and one that infuriates and terrifies me in equal measure (I’d rather not die at…

there literally might be too many guns and bullets out there for even an absolute ban on all guns to make a difference, no? apparently the gun:person ratio in the US is > 1(!!!):

Latest report from Reuters/LA Times indicates exactly that: Losing player in the tournament committed the ultimate rage quit.

I’m thinking ancillary to it.

I agree with you in that there is an absolutely horrific element in “gamer” culture writ large that first found its voice in the Gamergate movement, and has been actively scummy ever since.

However, blaming mass firearm violence on gamer culture is the sort of part-for-whole thinking that misses the forest for the…

“Guns aren’t the problem. Look at Chicago, where there are strict gun crimes!”