The post wasn't racist, just tone-deaf. They were saying that since Sonic was arrested in Sonic Adventure 2 and that Sonic Forces was about an enslaved people overthrowing authority, it was similar to the protests. When someone wrote exactly how tone-deaf the posts were (along with retweeting various graphic videos on…

To be fair, if I’m reading that good-bye post correctly, he’s essentially saying “We’ve worked too hard to answer criticism of us, you’ll miss us when we’re gone.”

Ma’am, Sonic is a hedgehog. This is the kind of racial injustice he has to deal with on a daily basis.


...Shit. I’m going to have to burn my house down now.

Both QAnon and Plandemic have already received extensive media coverage over the last few weeks. Information on them is not in short supply, just keep a sane head while reviewing them (if you can, it’s all pretty insane stuff).

The worst thing is when a game / movie / book / et cetera gets a title that is a single extremely common word that makes web searches impossible.

Oh he’s been outright trollish, many a time. It’s just one more sign that Kotaku and Gawker are indeed on their way out, as if long term staff heading out wasn’t sign enough. Even just a few years ago, he would have been kicked back to the greys by now, or a outright ban, but as long as avoids posting gore or CP on…

The replies to your aren’t shallow.

Do you have any sort of background in psychology or psychiatry that you learned these hard truths, or is this an excuse to not have empathy? Studies have been done on harassment and its negative impact on people, there is no reason to go down this road of so-called “hard truths.”

Her last notes literally reference the intense bullying she received.

or the 1701-year-old runes from backers complaining about a lack of shipping updates

Does it have a BoardGameGeek listing?

Can't wait for the evidence of the 1702 year-old Kickstarter that funded it

Sounds like the game version of this, which I’m so very very down for:

Nice inclusion of one of the gamerbro talking points to try and discredit here instead of focusing on what she actually said. Her “identifying” as a deer means jack shit to this conversation. 

No it isn’t. One person on a council saying “this is something we should consider” isn’t worthy of fucking death threats and doxxing no matter what you think they’re going to do with that statement. Hell, the entire council _doing that thing_ isn’t worthy of that.

This is a good overview of how the Gamer Outrage Cycle works. I’ve unscubscribed from multiple sub-reddits over the last few weeks because they were flooded with repetitive posts complaining about the Valorant anti-cheat, and it’s pretty much the same process: just this feverish hive of misinformation and disingeuous…

People got worked up over nothing.  Competitive games aren’t going to get rid of voice chat, but simply add other measures so it can be avoided if desired.  Playing with randoms isn’t what I would call competitive gaming even if the mode is listed as it.  The pro gamers have more voice than these puppets they have for…

A trans person being dogpiled by gamerbros for having a spicy take? (Or any take at all? Or simply existing?)

When I first started playing Apex Legends, the ping system that made it so I didn’t have to use voice chat in order to communicate pertinent, relevant information felt downright revolutionary, because voice chat for the longest time has been the domain of every dipshit who thinks anonymity gives them the right to…

I knew something was up the second I saw the standard circus of reactionary youtube gamer chuds all targeting one single person with a laser focus. Like, that’s your immediate clue to know whatever “anger” going on is entirely performative and in bad faith.  

They found their target of the month—and a woman too, how…