Look, I’m not trying to tear down a game you’re obviously passionate about. So you can stop being confrontational on purpose.

Yeah, see, the thing is? People criticizing the franchise are still allowed to criticize it when what Blizzard has done amounts to tablescraps of representation and storyline.

I mean, no. I don’t think that’s a lot to ask of the multibillion dollar company.

“A series of shorts,”

@ Vigor

Efi does not count, no. She’s a background character that has no real presence in the game, or even the narrative, outside of being someone connected to....I believe it’s Doomfist?

To me, the issue is less that the cast isn’t “diverse enough,” and more that they’re not meaningfully diverse. Yeah, you have people from the Middle East; from Future Australia; robots that are clearly Tibetan (but not really because we don’t want to anger China); characters from Asia and Europe and the Americas;…

Pro-tip: you can be hispanic AND black.

I’d never thought I’d hear the sentence “The same way I can call James Cameron a hack, but he still made Avatar,” said with a straight internet face. 

I mean, no one is saying he’s a great writer. That’s something we’ve criticized him for since MGS2.

In all honesty, I’m just of the mind that people want to come out of the wood-work with “HoT TakEs!!!” now that Death Stranding came out and hasn’t been universally well-received—because, honestly? That has been Kojima’s MO in terms of games he’s made in almost forever. You either like what he’s good at, or hate what…

Marry me.

I’m not going to say jealous, because I think that’s a cheap cop-out. I just think it’s, frankly, ludicrous to start saying the man is a hack or has only produced middling-to-bad games when that has not been the case historically.

Let me be absolutely clear: I use the word ahistoric, here, because the complaints going on in the comment section have moved beyond the normal things we’ve criticized Kojima for in the past—too much film in his games, and often being unable to write female characters, for example—into this bizzaro world where people…

There’s no such thing as objectivity in art.

You have to remember that Japanese culture has a huge, societal-defining emphasis on hard work being the key to success. Even if that hard work is just in name/theory, rather than actual effort—as seen in how “napping on the job,” is a positive thing in the Japanese workforce, for example.

And Paradise Lost is just self-insert fanfiction of the Old Testament that Draco in Leather Pants Lucifer, yeah lmao

Dweeb 🙃