Quitting en masse AND on the day of a huge release points to not just dissatisfaction with a job, but an abusive workplace. It reflects poorly on GameStop, not on these employees.
Quitting en masse AND on the day of a huge release points to not just dissatisfaction with a job, but an abusive workplace. It reflects poorly on GameStop, not on these employees.
I think that broadly, the point of protests is to call for better working conditions in the future. All these GameStop quittings have a certain performative aspect to them that make them feel like protests rather than, say, just quitting your job and not coming back.
I don’t want GameStop to turn around, I want them to go away. If your business can’t succeed without exploiting your workers then your business does not deserve to succeed.
You’d be surprised just how computer illiterate most people are, especially considering how prevalent they have become in the last 20 years.
“This game doesn’t cater to my playstyle”=/=“bad game design.”
This is the sort of thing where I can understand the reasoning people have for not liking the weapon degradation, but I’m going to be selfish and say that I love the way TotK handles it’s weapon systems and would have been super disappointed if they had just made it like other Zelda item systems. It feels fresh, I…
To be fair the whole point of the system originally was to make sure most people don’t just abandon using items for the sake of power. I picked up a sword that does all the damage so now why would I ever use anything else...
I have a soft spot for Mortal Kombat as an idea, but I can’t be the only one who is *exhausted* by the fatalities at this point, right? The trailer had me until it got MK 11 levels of gross. That’s probably on me for hoping they would rethink how the gore is portrayed.
OoT certainly felt like a sea change and the time. So i dont know that it was overhyped. BotW has that nintendo feel, and its a great game, but i dont even think it is the best 3d zelda game so that doesnt really work for me as #1. But these lists are always so arbitrary.
It’s called a feel-good feel-bad story. You feel good because there’s someone out there spending money to help people. Then you feel bad because if our society wasn’t shit, those people wouldn’t have needed charity. Then you feel worse because the society that forced those people to rely on charity for basic health…
Everything that has ever existed can be viewed as problematic under the right lens. I feel like we are just desperately seeking reasons to complain at this point. I guess moving forward, just to be safe, all characters should be the generic placeholder body used in most game engines.
I want to rip my eyes out every time I read the headline “internet reacts to X,Y,Z.” It’s ALWAYS some pointless fluff piece containing screenshots of 3 tweets from people I’ve never heard of or care about.
Not just Kotaku. Half the articles on The Root and a bunch on Jez are just posting some shitty take they saw on Twitter with other tweets from people with less than 1,000 followers to back them up.
How about YOU just tell us about the gore instead of borrowing content from Twitter?
Do you mean recent as in 100 years, recent as in 50 years, armed conflicts as in ones the US is involved in, armed conflicts as in the ones the US admits to being involved in...?
It’s about to get worse. It’s not just ChatGPT, it’s all the AI/ML stuff converging all at once. I really think we’ll soon have bots indistinguishable from people.
Maybe part of it.
Of course, conservative finger-waggers don’t care about context or what art actually means. They just want to ban things they don’t understand under the pretext of shielding children.
I’m not cheering for Disney’s success, I’m just celebrating Ron’s failures.
Man, I hope they intended to turn me off of reading the article or playing the game with that headline. I just feel the life draining from my body thinking about someone planning to get me hooked on their product, and someone else actually being excited about that.