I think the one thing that surprises me slightly is that there are a higher proportion of women on Xbox than Playstation. I always tend to think of Xbox as the more “gamer bro” platform, what with its big exclusives being stuff like Halo and Gears of War....

I’m genuinely curious to know whether or not Doctor Gray has actually put forth any ideas of her own as to how one might make a game she would accept as being truly “decolonialist” — if so, I would love to read them, and I wonder why they aren’t linked or mentioned in this article.

I checked because I was very curious to see if this was what I suspected and yeah (Section 3.1 - Who Speaks?):

Boy, I love to Defend Freedom by *checks notes* censoring the content of school libraries!

Oh I think it’s bleaker than that, I don’t think they want monopolies. I think they’re just too naive to realise that’s the ultimate outcome.

I actually did my university thesis on colour cues as guidance in level design, and hoo-boy let me tell ya, it is HARD to get players to pay attention to the thing you want. At one point, we put them in a grey room full of brown crates, and the only vividly coloured thing in the whole damn room was a bright red box…

I think it bears noting that Joanne Rowling has not simply “expressed transphobic opinions” but actively funded lawsuits against trans-rights organisations, which I think is an important thing to consider when it comes to the ethical questions of whether or not you should spend your money on something which will…

You know, you raise a really good point, actually.

Yes, that is because you are getting old.

One thing you don’t mention when you’re talking about the dodge mechanic: you are aware that you can’t dodge in the same direction twice in a row within a given enemy combo, right? It does explicitly tell you that in the tutorial — if you dodge left, you need to flick the stick to the right before the next enemy…

Yo, hey, fuck you for the jokes about how “oh, it’s all white people, lol how can there be hate crimes”

Possibly, this is partially in response to the ongoing concern that [TK about the 1k planets or w/e that we wrote about.]

I really don’t get why this is considered remarkable in a way that DLC only weapon skins (which are practically ubiquitous) are not.

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It’s really weird to me how most of these articles seem to be focussing heavily on the lack of darker skinned people in this game made by Japanese developers, and mostly aren’t mentioning the lack of... y’know. Japanese people in it.

I wonder if that’s because some of their friends have lied to them about how long they were pregnant for in order to cover up the fact that they got pregnant before the wedding.

People don’t realize that once this practice becomes mainstream, we end up in a situation that no original artwork will be produced anymore, and the AIs will be stuck with their limited databases for eternity.

... you do know it’s “DEFCON” 3, military jargon for “DEFence CONdition”, right?

He’s sitting with his head poking out of the top though?

Oh, does the ball prevent him from seeing bright lights?