THANK YOU for recommending indoor antennas. It baffles me how many people don’t even consider it an option.

Not really?

You know, though. Sometimes you don’t need porn. I sometimes spend maybe a little too much time looking at women on Instagram who are squatting a million pounds or doing Crossfit or whatever. It’s not always about the fuckin’.

Where would you like it to resemble so that you guys don’t bitch and whine about it? Australia?   New Zealand?   Antartica?

it’s actually really difficult to avoid any connections to real world beliefs: By the time the story has a political component to its conflict, there’s an implicit debate about how society is structured. If the game wants to avoid making a statement about real world politics in doing so, it has to do one of:
1) Make…

How would one pick the protagonist (good guy) and the antagonist (bad guy) without making a political statement?

I don’t think you can make any type of art without referencing the world in some way. And as we should know everything is political... but companies making products that also happen to be art avoid trying to nail down an ideology so that they don’t get critiqued for said ideology... they want their product to be as…

I don’t know how you say that seriously. Making it take place in a fictional setting doesn’t disconnect anything you do from real life or making a statement. You can draw conclusions about Tolkien’s worldview from his fictional world building.

“Here is a game based somewhere [in a country that has a rich history and a commonly used in very specific ideological and political images in several other countries] a place where we could probably come up with a story about [irregular forces engaging in warfare against regular forces, directly related to COIN…

This notion that you can take highly political situations and just opt out of making a political statement means you’re not being political is eyerolling. It doesn’t have to be a grand political statement. No one is arguing they should be putting out some sort of philosophical treatise or anything. But when you make a…

Seriously. Can’t a company make a game about overthrowing a fascist government in Not Cuba without people asking if there are any statements about the real world. Not Cuba isn’t even a real place. DUH!

Agreed. Don’t separate it. Don’t ban it. Treat it like it’s normal and then, as time passes, it’ll become normalized. Women’s bodies are normal. Let them be normal.

I wish people would be honest about this discussion. It isn’t about morality, it’s about money. There is a lot of money to be made with streaming and those fueling the fire in arguments like this are the ones not getting the money. Our (U.S. at least) society has traditionally used morality as the framework for these…

Man, if only people spent hours each night watching sitcoms, or spending money on sports memorabilia while whiling away an entire afternoon watching “the big game”.

I think the people who spent $5 to add 10 seconds to the clock watch this stuff. I’m not among them, and I’m similarly not into sports, reality TV, or superhero movies, but, like... my not being interested in these things doesn’t delegitimize others who want to watch them.

The real question is why are you so bitter about it?

I think most streamers don’t stream that long. Eight hours, regardless of if you’re wearing a mocap suit, is really hard. And I pretty much never watch one streamer for that long.

That’s a great takeaway from this article, and I wish your comment was above all the ones saying “I don’t get it/I’m too old” and those that clearly didn’t read the whole thing.

Most streamers I watch don’t typically stream longer than four hours. At least one of my favorite streamers only works roughly four hours a night, sometimes with breaks every few days. Lately he’s been streaming more though due to Covid making it difficult to do much else during the week.

I don’t watch Twitch regularly. I have never really understood the appeal. However, I accept that I don’t need to. This remains true for CodeMiko. There’s an audience here, and people should be mostly free to enjoy what they enjoy.

But this article is interesting to me because of the technology and production. I…