Amazon’s problem is it’s going to get smacked with regulation at some point. It’s just a cash factory that goes in and nuke’s whatever industry they feel like next.

I’d be curious if anyone doesn’t believe it. I respect Verhoeven as an artist - you can tell he lived through war with how matter-of-fact he is in showing whatever it is he chooses to show.

I don’t think it’s restricted to white men, but white men specifically are the ones most likely to be called on it in terms of of analyzing apologies.

This is a small pet peeve of mine, but really no one should be compared to Nintendo in the way no computer manufacturer should be compared to Apple.

There is a built in fanbase for those companies that regardless of actual quality will clamor and tell you how great something was and will often change the conversation…

The entire of concept of ”punching-up”/”punching-down” is flawed from the outset. People are largely unaware of their relative power and certainly fail at it once demographics are put in the mix.  It’s not that you can’t have an idea about it, but judging yourself “above”/”below” a target is guesswork given your…

Did he? I’m just asking because Nic obviously had a problem that was never addressed and Charisma JUST TOLD US that she began engaging in coping mechanisms.

To me this isn’t a result of anything nefarious so much as they just don’t test games the way they used to.

It would probably lose on standing to sue. You’re absolutely correct that you can make the claim Sony’s Storefront sold you a game that did not work. But you did not buy it directly from CD ProjectRED, you bought from Sony who was licensed to sell it by the publisher.

As a PS4 user, all I can say is good on them for allowing the option.

This is sort of past the “logical dissection” phase and into the “pitchfork and tar” phase - I’m riding it like I ride through the the Zack Snyder stuff.  The train’s not going to back up.

Hard disagree.

OK - this can be taken as troll bait but I don’t mean it that way.

That’s not on the industry, that’s on the industries workers.

SAG-AFTRA and the teamsters didn’t “just happen”.

Probably also worth noting, CDPR probably noticed in the reviews how this particular property was falling into the proverbial “hot potato” section of internet commentary where regardless of what they do it’s going to have with them/against them occuring. Once that became the reality and they realized they couldn’t…

Ultimately, at some point the world is going to go back to what it used to be in which “thought leaders” aren’t really accessible anymore. It sucks, but as soon as groups realized that access could be weaponized it was only a matter of time.

The first real visibility of this was usually the Up/Down comment scoring…

I mean if your publisher’s output has a fairly visible stance on Cyberpunk’s publisher, it certainly is.

As they should. If Marvel has taught us anything, it’s that universal acclaim generally consists of a very specific type of output. That’s neither good nor bad, but any art can be designed to do different things.

It’s best to just post the That Mitchell and Webb Look - Apprentice sketch.  Pretty much all Gawker editorial decisions make perfect sense if you understand it.

That’s not very fair though. Witcher3 is essentially the final unwinding of a two game story build which I won’t say is easy (plenty of games and media have missed the mark) but is a great example of doing it well.

Reads the article.