I can believe this. Polygon went downhill after Kuchera arrived. He’s an aggressively terrible journalist, for one thing, but disturbingly he seems constitutionally incapable of stopping himself from having these “episodes” where he acts out like a petulant child, lashing out at others over slights both real and…

anyone else use Kinja and Gizmodo websites on mobile and can’t log in for shit?

Alexandra Hall’s articles are about equivalent, but she doesn’t write much these days and I’m increasingly wondering who the hell else I visit that site for.

Agreed, there’s not even the vaguest hint of cyberpunk about this. Might just as well have called it an action thriller staring Tom Cruise.

3G?

I have a huge respect for the people who do these translation projects. So many great games never get seen out of their respective countries because of the language barrier.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/car.1092

Can you explain what you mean by that? I’m not familiar with either.

Again, I’m not talking primarily about bare flesh, I’m talking about all of the context it’s mired in, which deliberately plays up to standard porn tropes of women being objects for male desire. Go watch some of the stuff that got those streamers banned last time and you’ll pick up what I mean pretty quickly. Also,…

Okay what content is currently allowed on twitch that you find pornographic?

No. “Hot tub” streams, the “ASMR” pseudo-blowjob while doing yoga thing, these are all deliberately designed to get as close to pornography as the performers think they can be without getting banned. More to the point, those same performers’ stock and trade are the exact same reductive, insulting tropes about women as…

That’s where I’m at now, yeah. I can’t help but note that f2p games seem to revolve around gameplay that would be considered side content at best in conventional games. I spent a few hours on that free Fallout game a year or so ago, and kept waiting for the game to arrive. Eventually I realised that there really isn’t…

If it helps you to understand my position, I’d prefer there to be an adult-only Twitch sister site where all the 18+ content could get shifted. It seems to me that this would be a win for all concerned - streamers would know where they’d be moved if they push the line on the main site, viewers would be able to decide…

the exposed flesh of a woman’s bosom

Case in point. A lot of words spent ducking and dodging the question.

Oh, I know. There are two positions here: either you’re 100% cool with adult content being shown on a 13+ site, or you’re a hateful misogynist. You’re either with us, or you’re against us. I’ve received lots of insults, but you ask them to explain why they think this stuff -which plays to the most utterly crass…

I think it was more like “is this adult work?” because Twitch is not an 18+ service.

I feel like Blizzard is a house party that is full of assholes and the host is deciding to deal with it by cleaning the toilet.

is this the first gatcha game you played?

So far I’m finding the articles I’ve dipped into somewhat interesting, but mainly because I’m trying to use them to figure out what the author is getting out of these famously exploitative games. Clearly they like them but I’m still at a loss as to why. I’ve played a bit of Genshin on PC over the last couple of weeks,…