I think so much of it was focused on Overwatch for the same reason Deadspin runs more of the “big 4" sports stuff than anything else: they’re focusing on the sports that are culturally the biggest deal.

Ellie is a queer character, though. She’s not kissing a girl as an experiment. And trust me, straight people can’t get ENOUGH of bringing of bringing straightness to the masses. 

I get that, but Terry decided to comment here, not anywhere else on the internet. And nowhere did I or Merckle imply that black people can’t speak up against racism. Nobody in their right mind is counting on white people to save them. But racism is a construct that was created by white people for white people and…

Right, but I don’t see anybody doing that. This whole article is Merckle talking about why it’s important for white people to be the ones speaking up against racism, seeing as black people and brown people have been doing just that for literal centuries and yet, we still have Grand Dragon Pumpkinhead sitting in the…

Realize that for every decent person giving him a pat on the back, there's a good ol' boy putting a target on his back. And yes, as a black person you live with that every day, but this guy had to choose to step from safety into the line of fire. That's no small thing.

That’s because of people like you we lost this character. She was not useless at all. I had a fantastic win rate and got into diamond on PC without too much hassle thanks to her on defense, where she would help teams tremendously, and sometimes on offense, where the TP would help the team keep the pressure immensely.…

You might need to put the controller down and get some air there, champ.

You say this as if I’m asking for queer folks to never be touched or suffer harm in games. That the kid gloves should remain on and our stories be precious fluff. I hear variations of this argument a lot, like when I wrote about David Cage’s treatment of woman. That’s certainly not the case; many of the stories I’ve…

But...again, with all due respect, this seems like a naive take how politics actually works.

*rubs temples*

You’re sounding awfully like an MRA, so my first instinct is to just walk away from the conversation as there’s no reasoning with that ilk. But I’ll bite.

As a gay guy I’d have no problem with some floppy dicks bouncing about in SC.

This... man, this heavily depends. Men are literally always objectified... from a straight male point of view. In most cases, those “objectified men” you speak of are straight male fantasies of what a man should be like - usually lots of muscles, physical strength, and anger -, not necessarily something that will…

I think the real issue here is that they didn’t own it, but rather tried to deflect pretty heavily. I think Yoshida really nailed it by saying that his character designs are entirely because he likes pretty girls; it’s straightforward, honest, and admits that the designs are not meant to appeal to everybody. Being…

We weren’t necessarily going out to try and intentionally make something sexy for the purpose of being sexy.”

MOAR. NEVER ENOUGH. THE THIRST CAN NEVER BE SATED! lol

Just a fair warning to the people out there who (like me) agree with the article: You probably shouldn’t read any other comments, or any of the comments in response to this one.

BUCKLE UP BUDDY CAUSE THERE’S MORE COMIN

There are still “progressives” who pretend the eight years of relative comfort America enjoyed under Barack Obama is “romanticing” his presidency, whilst in the midst of the current Presidency careening from one fucking disaster to another.