If they ain’t boiled, they ain’t bagels.

Not unless both ingredients are bagels.

Everyone here assumes this game is tasteless jingoistic trash, based only on the fact that you play from the perspective of a US marine. No one has played this game, gameplay footage has been pretty limited, so no one really knows how the game will present its subject matter. Perhaps everyone here is right and the…

Youre the idiot.  Not serving certain drinks isnt the same as preventing people access to art or media.

Lol.

So to use a separate example.... the Comics Code Authority. Self-Imposed by the industry following the publication of a psychiatrist’s book. Devastated the comic book industry by forcing publishers to stop making horror stories, never letting the bad guys win, so on and so forth. Tried (and almost succeeded) to block…

Yes, it can be.  When the rich try to stop something from being published that’s censorship whether or not it’s “muh gubmint” doing it.

People constantly conflate the first amendment with censorship believing that it’s ONLY censorship if the government is involved. This is incorrect, but it’s a depressingly widespread belief.

I swear, you guys are as dense as FREEDOM OF SPEECH WARRIORS! A store refusing to carry a product that it ordinarily would *because* of that product’s speech is censorship. It isn’t illegal or a violation of the first amendment, but it’s censorship.

If the game is overtly bigoted it’s one thing, but calling on deplatforming for anything “problematic” is disgusting.  If it really is overtly offensive I agree deplatforming is the way to go, but not only if it's due to the subject matter.

I’m with everyone who liked the motion controls. They were very well implemented in this game and they were a lot of fun. If you don’t like motion controls, that’s fine. Just don’t show your ignorance by calling it "waggle".  That refers to the pseudo motion controls of the early Wii era that was essentially just…

I tried out Stadia, GeForce Now, and Luna.

If we ever applied this logic to the history of game consoles, here’s a quick list of notable companies that wouldn’t be in gaming right now: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft...

I’d say the Honk Kong flag being removed is more important than the Rising Sun imagery, since it’s been the target of much discussion since nearly 70 years (25 or so just for Street Fighter) and H.K. is NOW being destroyed. It should get more focus.

1400+600 = 2000

Maths

This ain’t CNN. When Kotaku runs a story about politics, it has a connection to video games. Also, did you not read the story? After the video game stuff, it takes a shot at Biden for the missing checks.

This ^^^

Nobody seems to deny she needed the psych eval, and her own lawyer supported her getting it - after all, you can be having a mental health crisis AND be trying to tell the cops something true and important and scary. [indeed, there’s probably a correlation]

Sadly no matter how many of these articles are out there the anti-vax morons will collectively be calling Lifehacker writers government shills spreading false information.

THIS THIS THIS!