It’s the same as “Kotaku reports”. It’s a shorthand for the publication, pretty standard for any journalistic reference. The author itself is named only if relevant, past employment or not, or if somehow it breaks with the publisher stance.

I don’t disgree with what you said. But it seems that on the level of staffing involved in this story (a few individuals, at best), having local instance for EACH of the evenst would actually make more people involved, and thus complexify everything.

Honestly, I can’t image the pressure that having to track potential abusers around the globe can put. It’s a thankless job, made worse by the fact that these people are doing it for free, and with next to no levers of pressure on the offending individuals, save for “don’t allow this guy to compete, plz”.

Since when a global problem does not need a global solution?

Dang! We found the same clip....

I object to the proposition of having dildos being dildoed-up to eleven (dildos, of course).

Trying to change the subject are we? We are talking about the port on console now, which definitelty was part of the project during those long years.

The number of parallels here is very high, nonwidthstanding, especially considering the hype it garnered and how ludicrously it now underperforms (on console).

And that cost is plain now: a broken, nearly unplayable game. If it was that difficult to scale it down, they should never have promised, moreso launched, that game on last-gen consoles.

Insert joke with feet digits and a camel here.

Maybe (personal hypothesis) because there is a lot of new and future regulations coming from Europe about child safety and micro-transactions (ya know, that gambling/MTX/Loot box situation), it could also make sense to bunch up and make a statement about having a unified legal framework globally about users…

It’s a nice list of bullet points indeed. I’m waiting for concrete actions to see how well the implementation will look like. That’s my skeptic hot-take on this.
Afterward, my hope in all this is this: that the “big three” will pool ressources, and to some degree unify enforcement methods across all console platforms to…

Having a complex game is first and foremost a design choice. If you KNEW well in advance that your final product would be very complex and thus prone to have a lot of bugs, then that should have been factored in at the very start.

Even better analogy: would who go to a restaurant with a proven history of abusing providers, bus boys, slimy executives, underhanded deals to secure good quality ingredients, works and in hand with the local mafia to launder money? Then I guess some would be fine by it because it has nothing to do with the food and…

The cause is probably the same one as in the VG industry: lack of unionization. Most of the movie industry is unionized; that’s was the point of the OG poster.

Very often, unfortunately, the abused becomes the abuser later in life.

No mental illness required here.

How is even being alive in the 80s enables you to have a full picture?

The level of self-delusion required to believe in a conspiracy theory such as QAnon precludes that they connect the dots (correctly) on that one.

It has. This was a “swatting” prank call.