I also saw people posting - falsely as far as I can tell - that Sirona is deadnamed in the game and were upset about that. I get that some have an outsized amount of hate for this game but the making stuff up to attack it is really undermining their original point.

Don’t worry, they will ignore that since it doesn’t “fit their narrative”. 

The X-men has always wrestled with this, though, and increasingly has come to reject that approach, and the idea that Magneto is some kind of pure villain - and particularly that Xavier is a hero.

“Every ride these days seems to dump you out into some kind of retail establishment“

Sorry, I think I missed out on how we concluded that Persona 5 invented turn-based RPG combat. Seems like you’d have to ignore 30 years or so of history to conclude “turn-based RPG” is “Persona 5-like”.

Yeah, It was 4chan bait, just as their “OK hand gesture meant White Power” and “Milk was the drink of White Supremacy”... Some people just lap up “info” that fits into their worldview without giving it any critical thinking.

“I’ve also put about 15 hours into the game and agree it’s largely fine. A solid B game with A+ art direction and environmental detail work that papers over a lot of the open world errand running and cliche narrative tropes. A fine and- if observed in a vacuum- totally innocuous game.”

Full disclosure. I’m playing the game right now. Think of me what you will.

If Rowling had shown any interest in showing what good activism looked like you might have a point, but no she throws in one annoying activist who just doesn’t understand that house elves just like being slaves, actually (except for Dobby, he’s “a weird one”, don’t think about him too much). If she’s making a point…

The gaming world has used AI for years, it’s just that all the major devs know how to use it as a helpful tool instead of overly relying on it. Games are an art, but as I say when people call AI images “art”, AI games aren’t art either. Games, movies, animation, paintings, sculptures, all of them have meaning put into…

Nah, their storytelling instincts were bang-on, this would be tedious and diminish the themes of the work.

Honestly the antisemitic tropes people can read into Harry Potter have been there and were written about when the first book became popular. Where were all our “allies” fighting against Jewish discrimination then? Waiting in line to get the next book or see the next movie.

Oh don’t worry.  The boards are pointing that out too.  Apparently POC didn’t exist in the 19th century 

Oh, found Reed Richards (Because this is a STREEEEEETCH)

It isn’t really enough that JKR is a TERF, people have to make this game into literally satan. I mean why? I don’t agree that boycotting this game will affect JKR in any significant way but even if I did the fact she’s a hateful bigot would probably be enough for me. But nope. It literally has to be the worst thing…

You are reaching incredibly far with that connection. There is no antisemitism in the game. You could come up with limitless random obscure links if you wanted to connect two different things. This is embarrassing to watch.

You mischaracterized that and called it a reference when it is more apt to say it is a “potential allusion”. Take your L on that bud, cause he’s right. Be mad, but do it for the right reasons and don’t conflate/over-exaggerate. You’re just gonna end up driving people away by appearing dishonest around or over…

Nailed it.

Golden Sun, baby. I’m excited to return to Golden Sun. Just hope they release the sequel; my favorite mechanic was that, while you start with a new party in part 2, you can port your team from the first one over and you eventually get to battle then team up with said team. In the early 00s that meant either having a…

I understand not wanting to support anti-Trans billionaire JK Rowling 1,000%. I’m not defending any part of that revolting cunt’s war on the Trans community.