Yep. It’s a backwards sale in a certain sense. They know it’ll never go on sale, but it WILL go up in price. If you want it, get it while you can save $5 bucks. They’ll get a sales surge over the next week, but as many others have said. The people who want this game already have it because they know it never goes on…

You know you have the ability to not click on a link, right?

It’s media production, and there’s a lot of human labor required for making media that looks professional and consistent. Even going by your asinine amazement that there could be someone whose job it is to heat up the hot tub, while it probably isn’t solely one person’s job, that one person could be maintaining the…

They were never upset with her because they genuinely thought she was scamming anyone; they were upset that she’s a woman doing her own thing successfully.

1. Voicing your opinion on a matter doesn’t mean you need to quit your job and take up law.

2. Voicing one’s opinion on a large platform where you have a large following is doing something you moose.

“questionably commitment to free speech “

You forgot to mention the Twitter Space that Hotz hosted yesterday, where Musk naively called for a “total rewrite” of the whole twitter stack, and then received well deserved pushback from an actual engineer:

You think it’d be a good idea to quit twitter without praising Elon? Anything less, and he’d have a dozen tweets out about how bad Hotz was, how he made everything worse, and where people should go to burn down his house.

The way the raids punish KOs really fosters toxicity, IMO.

100% agreed.

You have to remember, a disproportional percentage of these sales numbers are little kids who don’t have very high standards or do their due diligence. They see an ad, tell their parents, and they ask the guy at target to grab it off the shelf. And they certainly don’t know how to vote with their wallet. 

and now he wants to get into bed with an openly bigoted transphobic conspiracy theorist who pals around with people who love to see queer nightclubs get shot up

I assume he meant the heads of GF for not planning the games development with an existing better engine, rather than the developers themselves for their work making the actual game.

This is excellent game journalism and you back up your point well. 

I read a book AGES ago about anime and manga which brought up the heavy use of foreign-looking characters in Japanese pop media. The author made the interesting proposition that many characters who appear Western or Indian or African are in fact Japanese by code, and that the audience in Japan understands that, while…

And so we have the first Final Fantasy game I won’t be buying or playing. If it doesnt fit their fantasy to have BIPOC in their game, it doesn’t fit their fantasy to have me play it either. Simple as that. They’re free to do what they want as am I. 

Weebs will contort themselves into pretzels trying to excuse Japanese racism.

The attitude that japan is made of child-like naive fools who know nothing about the rest of the world and don’t understand diversity is an incredible work of racism here from the racist west.

Japan didn’t join the Nazis because they didn’t “get” racial genocide. What Japan is is a country where the CIA worked really…

I don’t play many JRPGs so I can’t speak to that genre specifically but we’ve seen this recently in the fighting game space where after the reveal that Bridget from Guilty Gear was a trans woman, you had people of the absolute worst weab variety coming out of the woodwork to claim the following in sequence: it was a…