This is how the push toward games as a subscription service really starts, tbh. Small price increments for big name games, make the popular AAA and AA titles inaccessible “to the common riffraff” and then re-introduce monthly subscriptions as the “lower-cost alternative,” like we haven’t been fighting against that…

There’s an excellent episode of The Magnus Archives that kind of sideways deals with this. Really great listen if you’re into horror podcasts.

Given that quite a few YA novels are better written, paced, and developed than videogames, this is a rather unfortunate comment.

@AgentZ

It’s nice that white folks can turn this part of their brains off, but even the most fantastic and unrealistic fiction out there still drips with the influence, ideas, and rhetoric of those who created it. (Just look at the mess Rowling is in right now, ffs.)

You’re either painfully white or very colorblind.

The issue is that these shows, and all media that holds police in a positive light without tackling the negative, are effectively propaganda. And with media like Spider-man and B99, this is especially egregious because the propaganda is a betrayal of the very real lived experiences of people on both side of the…

@Netroz

Really, nothing more needs to be said.

Funnily enough, Japanese philosophy has a similar concept known as mono no aware.

Thank you for missing the point.

Right? My back-log has never been longer, nor my to-buy and/or check-out list ever been more daunting to look at. I hate to be all “Gamers these days are spoiled for choice,” or whatever; but, honestly? I think if as many games were available as there are now, back when I was in highschool and had disposable income, I…

...bruh have you played a Total War game before?

Many remember when every RTS back in the 90s was basically a copy of the formula Warcraft popularized?

Meanwhile, I for one hope all consoles die so we can have one dedicated system for videogames. There’s so many great things coming out across platforms that there’s just not enough time or money to go around.

Since I did my literal thesis on this game, I’ll chime in about the Evokers: the entire point of P3 is, according to its lead designer, to give players a “virtual death experience,” wherein they’re meant to “question and think about death from a variety of different perspectives.” One of these perspectives, and…

If it’s not enough to just be post-racial, and we need to instead be anti-racist, then how are we to combat unknown unknowns?

I’m going to ignore your first paragraph for my own health.

While still a bit iffy on how easy the character “tapped into his ancestral Native American superpowers,” the original Prey from 2006 did a pretty good job at giving us a non-stereotypical portrayal of someone who just so happens to be Cherokee and the lead of their own story, without that story revolving around his…

I mean, you blame slave owners for slavery, yes. Same way you that you blame racists—and those who profit from racism, whether directly or indirectly—for racism.