“Max Payne is a game released in 2001.” What more needs to be said ? Being released in 2001, 21 years ago, means that 99% of people under 30 who play video games never played Max Payne. Also, video games are not music, books nor films : technological evolution has a big impact on them. Most people will be ok playing…

There’s no one answer for every person, because people vary. To quote Carl Sagan, “...as if there were only one human nature!”.

I'm sorry did you go to a gaming opinion site and not expect to hear opinions about games 

Shut a dumb, cop-out answer

You realize they mean the subgenre as a whole, not the (TTRPG?) You’re talking about? Also that’s a literally perfect example of the problem Veit can talk about. The idea that having prosthetics or enchantments , no matter what they do, will make you less empathetic and less human is built into the very laws of…

I mean, "strange" is the wrong word. At this point it just looks thoughtless, if not outright neglectful.

Can people not critique things? Must we sit in silence unless we hate something, at which point we are suddenly allowed to bring up its flaws?

so why isn’t everyone doing that? why are Asians the only people doing the cool katana thing?

I’m going to wait until the full game with Cyberpunk as that trailer seemed to depict a lot of different groups in strange ways. For example you have Latinos all depicted as low-rider Mexican Catholicism and some weird gang depicting White Americans as some mix between student nights out and extreme nationalism.

Fifty percent of people responding: “Fuck you, don’t take my games!”

Yes how dare the author ask games to rely on racial stereotypes and assume all Asians are a monolith. 

Also all this shit with how the game “isn’t political” despite the fact that the subgenre of cyberpunk is explicitly about end result of late stage capitalism

When CDPR has shown off Cyberpunk 2077, that’s been a big theme that they’ve talked up and betrays an extremely facile understanding of transhumanism and cyberpunk as a genre. In the E3 demo, they talked up to press about how ending it with a woman in a bathtub, you’re given a choice to save or kill her. This is…

Yeah, never think about anything. Just buy or don’t buy. Criticism, critique, even stopping for one moment to say “Does this make sense?”: not even once!

There were huge racial issues with the Haitian gang in the E3 demo from last year, too. Basically every time we’ve seen this game thus far has incorporated some flavor of racism, transphobia, or ableism (remember all the talk like “if you replace body parts with robot parts... are you still human????” like people with…

It doesn’t matter whether they’re Chinese or Japanese or Korean. We all look alike, but we don’t look like the majority (Caucasian), therefore we are just “Asian”. So as “outsiders”, it’s always easier to condense the foreign and exotic into visually recognizable generalizations. At least that’s how I’ve always…

I feel the same way.  Most of the battles in the game are much smaller scale, but it’s actually pretty impressive how the game handles bigger scale fights, and it does have that same kind of dynamism and chaos.  The fact that the combat works just as well on a small scale as it does for the larger fights is really…

There’s no way they’d teach such an important tool for dismantling their own authority and propaganda to such a vulnerable population that might actually grow up to think for itself instead of blindly propagating the accepted world view.

Critical thinking needs to be taught every single year from grade 1 on to 12.

Not to shit on your college, but it’s more Column B. It’s Typography 101.