Yeah, I get how it’s odd. In my mind, it boils down to “you’re non cis-het and also face issues, even if they’re not as widespread and systemic,” but it’s always going to be a complex subject when we’re dealing with an umbrella term like that. I appreciate your awareness of where you’re at in all this!

Oh MAN, I forgot all about that part of her legacy! I honestly don’t recall if High Score went into those aspects of her career (since it’s been so long since I’ve watched it), but absolutely, yes. She’s so so so cool.

The connective tissue is that cisgender straight people cause problems for people who don’t fit into that cis-het worldview. It’s not always “fuck off, straight people,” but also “society marginalizes us for gender or sexual differences.” Maybe someday in the future we’ll see more of a splintering, but we’ve had to…

I’m not the user you responded to, but it doesn’t look like they’ve had a chance to respond yet. Intersex refers to when someone has the sexual characteristics of both genders (or somewhere in between). They could have a penis and a vagina opening, or have a penis but have female reproductive organs inside, or their…

Eh, “queer” has plenty of young people against it too, even considering that older generations are the people who initially reclaimed it and pretty much every identifying term we use has been wielded as a slur against us. (Though we also get into the problem of how TERFs have managed to convince quite a few young…

Because those questioning people may very well end up gay or bi or whatever else. “Questioning” doesn’t mean “straight but questioning,” either; it refers to anyone that’s trying to figure out their identity. It’s already hard enough for people to figure themselves out thanks to social stigma against anything…

I’ve seen your posts around here on and off, and you were pretty much the only one I agreed with on The Mandalorian (though I didn’t ever respond to your comments on it because I watched the show way after the reviews here were posted), so I want to say I appreciate you acknowledging that even if you find it odd, you…

I mean, that’s what “queer” is and pretty much has always been since we started reclaiming it. It’s always referred to being non-straight and/or non-cis.

This is amazing! I’ll definitely have to snag it, it’s really cool. I saw an article recently, too, that credits Shibuya for her contributions to the Final Fantasy games and goes a little into her work on the remasters!

I’m asking this honestly, but every way I’ve tried to phrase it has sounded hostile (I promise I’m not): are they just supposed to sit on it? It’s not just a promotional piece, it’s partially an interview, so if they talked to Kenney recently, they probably want to post it within a reasonable timeframe.

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I can’t tell if I need this for hilarity or am horrified at the thought omg

There’s a difference between disliking the way Raiden actually works and claiming that information never meant for release was misleading, though. There are weird exceptions to skills all over the game, like how Xingqiu’s rain swords from his Burst don’t snapshot the damage buff from Bennett’s Burst (but Beidou’s…

Except the information was never supposed to be released in the first place. I’m of mixed opinion on leaks, and I admittedly don’t have the experience you do, but the entire kerfuffle is based off of information that was explicitly subject to change and was supposed to be kept solely to beta testers. MiHoYo didn’t…

I wouldn’t necessarily say “illegally” distributed (that is, I don’t know if the beta terms constitute a contract that could be sued over or if it’s just “if you break these terms, you can lose your account), but yeah. Since all of this is beta stuff, it’s silly as hell.

Thank god. This has been a thorn in my side on PS4 as well!

I only played the game once and remember hardly anything about it other than really enjoying it--I had no clue they were doing a sequel! Last thing I’d heard about from them was Afterparty, which sounds fantastic but I haven’t gotten around to playing. This is exciting!

I’ve never heard of Anachronox! From how you phrased it, that sounds like it wasn’t BioWare, but a pretty formative RPG nonetheless. Being straight-up turn based sounds more up my alley than the start-and-stop of KotOR, so I might have to look into it at some point!

Yes, similar to that! Nocturne’s emphasis a lot more on world-building and vibes, though, where Devil Survivor is a lot more about the characters, just FYI. (If you ever get around to Nocturne, just know that manual skill inheritance is done on the last screen before you confirm a fusion; you have to select the…

I don’t think it’s a bad take, but I remember a lot of the word “unauthorized,” which implies Nintendo (etc.) didn’t even give their blessing. Since these were repeatedly sold in stores for years, makes me wonder.