religious homophobia is explicitly programmed into the game as a doctrine of various faiths. Same sex relationships are either criminal, shunned, or accepted depending on the faith (sadly, there's no "encouraged" setting.) CK3 is actually a huge step forward for exactly this reason as you can change the doctrines of…

there's power, and sass, in a union

Was this decision reasonable or not? People should take seriously the claim that CDPR is making that they made this decision in collaboration with the platform. Certainly if it was unilateral on sony’s part, deflecting blame onto them might take off some of the heat. That means the developers think, in the long term,…

treason in defense of slavery is BAD!? :O

My big nitpick with Maldraxxus is that Baron Vyraz is *absolutely right* when he says Maldraxxus is about fighting with strength of arms and defeating your enemy, not chasing magical superweapons. And then the plot resolves by... Finding the magical superweapon!

Old Sophie is SO CUTE OMG

she is absolutely a member of People of Praise; what's been debunked is the claim that that group was an inspiration for The Handmaid's Tale. But OP didn't mention that. It is still factually true that ACB is a member of a fundie sect of charismatic Christians with absurdly regressive views about the role of women in…

I actually appreciate they're trying to just make good games and not making it gratuitously League of Legends branded. 

she could be bi but she definitely ain't straight  

I stan Pokimane the virtual AI hologram living with her wife on Mars

okay fine but look EVERYONE GO PLAY SAYONARA WILD HEARTS 

yeah how dare these... video game developers... have opinions... about their own project. Cancel culture has truly gotten out of control.

at some point they will have to charge less for a shorter game, and at that point game studio execs will stop listening.

“get a P4 and it should work fine”

It's right next to the Keystone State. You know, the state named "Keystone"?

Thanks for spotlighting this. I'd never heard of Bad Bunny, but I'll be checking out his.music.

Something people should know for context: this is a huge fucking deal in the fever swamps. When that story about DQSH in San Francisco blew up, that was basically what signalled to conservatives that “liberal society” was inherently evil, degenerate and unsaveable. This isn’t some silly example of tradcon prudishness,…

Call me an idealist, but I believe the Men’s National Team should earn as much as the National Team despite their clear difference in skill and competitiveness

this argument is, to use a technical term, totally bonkers 

If there is one thing living creatures are vastly better at than designed systems (at least at our current level of technology), it’s homeostasis. There’s a reason why “colony ships” in hard sci fi are usually vast, essentially continents under a dome - because we need something that big, big enough to house a whole…