Review bombing isn’t about someone’s actual review of the game, though. Opinions and reviews are not the same, and if someone’s review of the game is based on an opinion that lacks context, is predicated by discrimination, or was made up before even looking at the game itself, that review has no value to a site like…

I agree as a whole, and as a non-Black person of color, I don’t want to speak out of my lane, but I think in this case it’s a bit more than just a meaningless gesture. It wasn’t publicized like the 30 Rock removal, it gets rid of a method of racist abuse, and it (at least to me) doesn’t seem like a way of hiding the…

oh right she’s controlled by a Black girl so it counts, totally

Seconding Link’s Awakening, as someone who never got further than the first town in the Game Boy version (child me couldn’t find the dang sword). There are frustrating framerate drops out in the field, but overall, the game is a lot of fun.

Neat. Are we ever going to get a black lady character, though?

Yep! Also totally right.

That too!

I get not wanting to take a mask when you’re biking hard or running for exercise, but man, some of these fuckers are so goddamn obtuse. Whining about carbon monoxide is downright stupid when you realize that surgeons wear masks for hours at a time, masks are common in South Korea and Japan (not sure about other East…

That’s why you scope out the closing sales at Pier 1, of course!

Man, I wanted to watch that documentary, but...

The instant anyone brings up “cancel culture,” it’s nothing but side-eye. “cancel culture” is almost always a boogeyman that people use decry being criticized at all. We see it in fucking JK Rowling shouting about it when people are literally just telling her trans women are women and giving her the science backing it…

The first time I ever saw those glasses with the cobalt tops was literally in Mexico (Rocky Point) when my mom fell in love with them and decided to buy a set. I was confused for years about how friends’ families who had never been to Mexico ended up with those glasses. Oops.

The first part of the plot is very .hack, but between the setting (another planet, where the players are controlling actual characters through VR, the respawning ability tying into the matter the characters are made of) and the direction the story takes a little later (still reminiscent of anime and other games as a…

It feels stretched out when it comes to story (there’s a significant gap between the introduction and the next story-heavy bit), but for me, the gameplay was so fun that it didn’t really matter. I didn’t notice the gap until I stopped and really put on my narrative hat.

Nah.

Depends on how recently we mean, but yeah. Trans people have been talking about this since... I think 2018 or so? When Rowling first liked a transphobic tweet and explained it away as an old-person moment. Since then, though, it’s gotten more and more obvious, and given that the footage of the game leaked in 2018,…

I mean, that was the problem with The Crimes of Grindelwald. With this transphobia, though, she has thousands of people trying to explain it to her politely (plus those that are angry and lashing out about it!)...

Sadly, the page that was the source for that article wasn’t exactly accurate:

Of COURSE it’s a Robert Yang game oh my god

I’d be a little wary of playing this because it’s about the series’s overarching antagonist when they were younger, so spoilers might end up coming up.