I don’t know why, but stuff like this makes me wish I could read Japanese.

The defensiveness in the comments here is crazy. Yeah, there’s bad behavior in other leagues. But the numbers for OWL are out of control. The NBA has almost four times as many active players as OWL (not to mention the G League), the NFL has something like fourteen times the number of players. It would be bonkers as…

At this point, Overwatch League is more interesting as a social experiment than a competitive sporting event. “What would happen if we had a group of people with no life experience outside the confines of the internet video game culture and then suddenly thrust them into the public spotlight?”.

Not really the same.

Why for disliking a racist? Has that somehow offended you? Are you 16 years old and like to drop the n word on gta?

You know, I’ve gone on about how toxic the Smash community is, compared to other fighting games, but, man, does the Overwatch community make them look positively well-behaved.

So just another Wednesday. Seriously, this sort of thing keeps happening, maybe it’s time to consider that Blizzard just likes having turds on their payroll.

This is literally the same tactic Gamergate used at its peak. One of the bigots would do or say something bad, attempt to cover up their bigotry by donating to a charity, and then repeat every time they got caught being a bigot.

At least now he has time to work on a signature that doesn’t look like that of a 12-year-old girl.

Based on these numbers, it’s entirely possible the Switch will Surpass the Vita and PS4’s sales in Japan this year. That would be impressive considering how long those Sony platforms have been on the market.

Surprisingly enough, Zelda games don’t sell that well in Japan. It’s a series that usually gets waaaaay more sales outside of Japan.

Final fantasy xiv, an mmo that had a rocky launch. Rocky enough that they ended the game with that cutscene and relaunched the game, completely overhauled, nearly a year later as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, 2.0. Players who had played the original version could continue using their existing accounts and…

Free speech does not protect one from the repercussions of reckless or ill-considered speech. “Allowed to” (yes, of course) does not mean “free from judgment.” Ad-libbing the n-word to a public audience is a stupid, context-deaf action.

Free speech doesn’t enter into it one way or another. No part of this story involves the Government trying to abridge the first amendment rights of a citizen.

“Free speech means that, in addition to the government not being able to censor or arrest me for my speech — i’m immune from criticism and consequences!”

It’s not that the emote itself is racist, it’s that it’ll be used in a racist way in people in Twitch chat. It already happens with any emote featuring a black person, whenever black people or black stereotypes are mentioned on stream. Or, you know, just because.

The ones who are not thinking about race 24 hours a day taking offense at everything.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of Twitch emotes. Global emotes, which can be used by anyone and are controlled directly by Twitch, and subscription emotes, which you can only get if you’re subscribed to a specific Twitch channel.

Part of the reason why Trump’s win came out of nowhere is that Bannon was uniquely aware of just how shitty certain corners of the internet are, and he did a good job (“good” as in more than adequate, not “good” as in benefited society in any way) activating those people and getting them to become part of the…

This event is really just a repetition of a basic lesson in how some people (I refuse to say humanity at large; it always seems like there are more assholes than decent people because assholes tend to be loud and proud in their assholery, rendering their relative volume a hell of a lot louder than their actual numbers…