The characters in Smash were literally figurines. That’s why the main villain is a giant hand, and where the concept for Amiibos comes from.

I blame Funko Pops and the inexplicable popularity of Ready Player One.  

Why would it be bad for Cone Kirby to be elected?  He just wants to eat and be happy.  The world would heal if he were president.

Don’t worry about it. A turban-wearing Mario riding Yoshel the Camel, with Princess Peach in her bright pink and sapphire-encrusted hijab will be there to save the world. And if not, we can all duck over a pipe in order to escape to their sandstone bunker.

Yeah, spread misinformation and lies that literally cause people to get killed all day, FCC is fine with that, but say a bad word or a boob pops out accidentally and they’re all over you.

I fire real guns semi-regularly and videogame guns extremely regularly...

There is nothing, NOTHING in a videogame that can prepare you for that level of force and power.

Nothing can prepare you for the first time a round gets jammed, and for half a second you feel like you’re holding a timebomb.

and besides that, I’ve…

See, it’s only “politics” when it makes right-wingers uncomfortable.

No one with peaceful intentions comes to an unarmed protest with a rifle. The rest of your post is irrelevant.

“Nordic Empire Games”

Most of those companies aren't in deep red states because successful companies tend to favor being in places with functioning economies

These dudes always, ALWAYS out themselves by referring to human rights issues as “politics”. Kinda like how “states rights” issues always happen to be human rights issues.

Good for you, but just because you don’t care about the politics doesn’t mean games “never used to be political”.  This is like the whole Rage Against the Machine never used to be political thing.

Well said. All art is political because all art has a message.

Bungie has always been pretty vocal about their support for “left leaning”(aka human rights) causes these last few years. They have been vocal about BLM, Trans Rights, Abortion Rights, Woman Rights, Mental Health Awareness, Disability Inclusion in addition to supporting charity drives to various places like St Judes…

If I recall correctly one of those fierceley misguided religious women snuck herself onto the supreme court and started this whole mess...

Going by profile pictures,  it appears to be all bald white men wearing sunglasses while sitting in their cars

Why do all of these MAGA anti-women idiots have their profile shots as them in their car wearing sunglasses?  And why are they all bald white men?

People sure are dumb.

Let me guess, zero of the people who has told Bungie to be silent about this are women?

Remember, Gamers™ claim they want Developers to “stick to gaming” because they “need to escape from the stresses of real life”.  Which means simply knowing a woman is allowed to get an abortion stresses out Male Gamers™.