The clue is in the name - the stages are developmental. Some people’s ethical development halts at early stages, while some advance further. It would have been reasonable if you’d simply said that the stages exist on a bell curve and the uppermost stages have proportionately fewer people than the middle ones, but…

> Rowling herself claims that buying her junk equals agreement with her views. She refuses to separate the art from the artist, so why should I?

> CEASE YOUR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT

How are you thinking independently here?

While I’m not a Harry Potter fan, I do enjoy gaming. This is what made me ask what the fuss is all about so I read her tweets and her essay and I didn’t take it as she’s transphobic. She didn’t come across as being afraid or have hate for the trans community. I see that she did have concerns as a biological woman,…

It’s an amazingly deep and fun game. My 9 year old and 15 year old daughters are having a blast exploring. Even my 43 year old wife, who doesn’t play games at all, loves going around and collecting things, opening up the map, etc. The long and short is, it’s probably one of the best, biggest, most fun, and most…

Thing is, nobody applies “ethical consumption” consistently. For example, there’s a pretty good chance that at least 70% of the stuff you own contains parts manufactured in China. Does that mean you automatically support totalitarianism, child labor, work camps, etc?

Great idea. You go ahead and do this then since you clearly have all your ducks in a row, but don’t complain about not having enough money, if Mr. Beast can come from nothing, so can you! All you need to do is believe in yourself! So go out there my friend and make your dreams a reality!

Unless you’re one of those…

Deep breaths, dude. An invitation to reason is not an attack on your person.

Your analysis seems to be missing a point. His ability to engage in philanthropy relies very directly on making videos like this (videos people actually watch), so any use of his time and effort that doesn’t reliably feed back in to that cycle is fundamentally counter-productive in the space he occupies.

There will alw…

I seriously doubt this is the most unhinged take.

I made this exact comment to my wife while watching the second episode... but as a joke. We both had a good laugh.

*spoiler (I guess)*

Tess was the bad cop in the game, not Joel.

Threats or threats of force, i.e. coercion, is violence. Most of Europe don’t have statutory rape laws and the age of consent is 13/14 or non existent.

You can train a computer to be smart but you can’t train it to be stupid. And that is why we win. 

What you’re starting to see is that pissing people off causes more engagement than making people happy. This is how social media works now and also gaming “journalism.”

I don’t quite know where you got the “Kotaku lost its journalistic integrity since Jason Schreier left” from, especially since it’s the same person who wrote this 50 word “criticism” 10 years ago now: https://kotaku.com/game-developers-really-need-to-stop-letting-teenage-boy-472724616

Sadly I have to agree with you about Troy’s public persona, like many who achieve celebrity he suddenly couldn’t stop the flow of pretentious drivel from escaping his lips. I will however strongly disagree that he does not deserve his status as a fine VA, his range and the scope of his roles is diverse (Joel, The…

To each his own, but Troy literally won Best Voice Actor for that performance.

TLOU performances were motion captured by the voice actors themselves, which is one of the reasons they are so great and naturalistic. Of course, facial animations in games can’t yet compete with the nuance of live action emoting, though TLOU1 remake and TLOU2 are excellent in this regard. Anyway, I totally agree that…

It seems a bit unfair to compare Troy Baker’s performance with Pedro Pascal’s. In the show, Pedro has...his whole body to act with? Or are you including 2013 animation (which was quite good, but not exactly human) as part of the “performance”?

“No need for him to be publicly pilloried, let him do the work and become a better person. But also, maybe folks shouldn’t be drooling all over him right now either?”