I know right? How dare this website prioritize things like a green new deal, meaningful healthcare reform, eliminating the rampant stratification of wealth, and the end of US imperialism?

It’s like they don’t know that a) that Leslie Knope loved Biden, regardless of his harassment of Anita Hill, unwelcomed touching,…

I’m just a bit floored that you got into vaping despite being a non-smoker. I always thought vaping was that lame thing my smoker friends had to do to pretend like they were quitting. In most cases, they even kept up with vaping after quitting quitting because it was the thing they could smoke indoors during the…

Uh, JRH’s response to you was actually pretty well-founded. The notion of “paying for” any government action through direct accounting with specific taxes is in itself a disingenuous ploy that is only expected of social programs. We never ask “how are we going to pay for wars” or “how can the Pentagon just magically…

Spanfeller sux, Deadspin forever! I DON’T EVEN LIKE SPORTS, THANKYOUVERYMUCH

I feel slightly bad for Spiders because their history seems to be marked with a bunch of very honest attempts at good game building, but with fairly reasonable misses throughout those attempts. Greedfall seems like it could be their game to finally achieve a true win, but even if it’s not a great game, it will…

No one is making you do anything. If you want to play the game, download the launcher. If you don’t want to play the game, don’t download the launcher. If you want to play the game and not download the launcher, then tough shit and that’s your problem. You are not entitled to have every product/service/commodity sold…

Chances are that there are maybe a few lead devs or managers from old BioWare who serve as figureheads, but the reality is that there is probably very little of the same culture that generated the magic of before. The corporate acquisition process alone often drastically changes culture (in more industries than just…

As someone who comes both from the development and marketing side of gaming, I can tell you that EA really doesn’t seem all that invested in saving this game and they are quite definitely going with a strategy that can be summarized as “support it just enough that we won’t have to issue refunds, but not enough that…

I felt the same way! I was expecting to go any direction but Blue Lions, but after getting the rundown of characters, I even thought that Dimitri was by far the most supportive of his crew through his explanations and they all seemed way more likable overall. I just think of Dimitri as the really “cool” guy in the…

I really have to say that this game and Days Gone both demonstrate how bad games can be through mediocrity alone. Like, it feels like they were given a rubric from a teacher about how to make a game, and then they half-assed and included everything on a list to get a B-. They both rely on really half-assed character…

Even though I’m not really a fan of anything he’s been in, I could actually see him doing a fairly good and different job at the role. This is similar to the Christian Bale announcement for me because I remember a lot of people thinking it was a strange choice, but I think he fit well with the type of movies they…

also, if you saw what Steam was like for devs/publishers on the backend, you’d realize how fucking ridiculous 30% is for a system that feels prehistoric. I get at least two calls a month from people who missed their launch window by hours or days purely because of Steam’s ridiculous systems. You may even see this with…

13% placement fee for an online store is actually quite reasonable and probably covers both the cost of doing business and a solid profit margin, especially when you consider the level of infrastructure they already have in place for that kind of distribution for the UE4 platform. As someone who has released a game on…

Can you define what is “predatory” about Epic’s pricing strategies?

You’re completely ignoring that rapid and massive consolidation is a regular occurrence in the modern social media and tech sector, meaning “several websites” are actually industry shaping tools that affect the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. It’s sorta like saying “I’m not sure how a social…

It’s terrifying how few people really acknowledge how deeply and horrifically misunderstood the sex industry is and that many of them are still willing to support positions that have the exact opposite impact of their intentions.

You really don’t understand what’s being discussed here. This isn’t about sex workers being “out of work,” but rather about venues that preserve their safety and ability to work without resorting to pimps or dangerous situations. There is literally not one metric about the sex industry or child sex slave trade that…

Kamala Harris PERSONALLY went after Backpage and made it a significant platform of hers. I get having tone deaf attitudes towards sex workers, but to not identify her explicit actions a SWERF-y nonsense, while then seeking to take points out on Bernie through his awful decision to vote for FOSTA/SESTA is weird to me.…

You obviously have no understanding about how FOSTA/SESTA and the shutting down of backpage actually put more sex workers at risk and increased human sex traffic rather than decreasing any meaningful metric we use for progress. The fact that you just accept this kind of basic justification for a complex issue…

No offense, but you honestly sound like a teenager who uses a really reduced view of pro-consumer activities without any real awareness of what choice means in a cruel marketplace like this one. You’re advocating for “choice” over which storefront you use, but it’s very clear that your focus is more on your view of…