Bare minimum, I don’t think the issues (what little there seem to be, it’s more like minor eye-rolling at best) people might be having are because it looks like anime. Anime fuckin’ owns and more people than ever are watching it. Flattening a wide range of aesthetic complaints to something so simple would be a mistake.

I don’t think it has anything to do with a Japanese aesthetic. It’s the presence of out-of-nowhere fanservice, particularly in games where you wouldn’t think it’d be. People might roll their eyes at games whose purpose is fanservice--think Senran Kagura--but people critiquing fanservice, especially in games where that…

I, for one, get *really exhausted* explaining that a) trash is often fantastic and that b) fanservice is more than often fine in my book.

Code Vein’s a fun game so far. I say as much in this very article! I loved the character creator, I’m onboard with the edginess and cheese, and even if combat’s a bit floaty it…

“Artifact designer says it failed due to Cards-For-Money system”

Everyone prior to alpha: this system isn’t good and no one is gonna back it
Everyone between alpha and beta: this system still isn’t good and no one is gonna back it
Everyone between beta and the actual release: this system is terrible and we are not gonna…

There’s times when the ‘entitled gamers’ are not right (and I am sure I am gonna get flamed for saying that - especially here of all places), but usually if they’re telling you to make things more accessible, that’s a big red flag that you’re potentially leaving money on the table.

People talk about ‘entitled gamers’ all day long, but no one wants to talk about entitled companies getting upset that you didn’t fall for their lootbox schemes.

The main sticking point with Artifact (which is expressed here, in my mind) is how much of a failure their model was, and they still refuse to acknowledge that it was an absolutely terrible model.

I mean, Steam promotes and sells games where the main feature is anime nudity. That’s like comparing apples and hand grenades.

Another big change is additions to sexual content rules. You know how Fire Emblem “strategically tears” clothing when someone is injured? Probably gonna have to go.

Yes, really, really, incredibly, impossibly weird to focus criticism on Pelosi, who leads the Democratic caucus in the House, and is a key decision maker in whether or not there are impeachment proceedings at all, and not Sanders, who would be one vote, at the end of the process, in a vote that would be all but a…

Seems really weird how people here are angrier at Sanders than the person who can actually call on a vote.

Eh, they mentioned it in the last article. I don’t think it’s nearly as tone-deaf as this.

Is it super weird the main focus has been on the statements of the leader of the House, the chamber which actually impeaches a President under the rules of the constitution? Huh. I never thought of it that way. But then again, I’m not an idiot or a hack. So I guess I don’t have that kind of genius level ability to…

No shit, and that’s a possibility that could only come about if?

Weird that it would matter more what the Speaker of the House thinks than a Senator.

His opinion doesn't mean shit until Pelosi acts first. 

He could have very clearly stated today “ I was not given the option to indict the president due to justice department policy, I believe the report has enough evidence to begin impeachment proceedings” but he fucking didn’t, he was mealy mouthed about what his report was, then skirted off without taking questions. 

the man who lied to your face about Iraqi WMDs, and saw nothing wrong in entrapping a long series of muslim teenagers, has at long last found the mark where it becomes indecorous to try to go after someone you’re against.

funny isn’t exactly the word i would use, but yeah, pretty much this. 

it is really funny watching a republican cop do everything in his power to not say a republican president committed a crime