I’m so sad about this. I want to play this game in theory, but I have no interest in purchasing the accompanying and necessary toys. This particular business model, while successful for the companies, is one I don’t wish to support — not out of any ideological opposition but because I don’t have the funds nor the…

You know what the best and most subtle bit of feminism in the movie is?

For real though, the movie had a really interesting point to make about self-determination. It’s not just about the women, who were born and bred to give birth or give milk-although THAT particular theme was plainly obvious-the “war boys” were born to be slaves, too, destined to go to war and die to go to Valhalla.…

Only MRA douchebags could be so up themselves to bitch about a movie THIS AWESOME. Yes, I do have a penis. Yes, I'm also a feminist. No, they aren't mutually exclusive. Fury Road ROCKS!

But a guy who is a supremely competent duke/vampire/captain of industry doesn’t require cooking/cleaning/scheduling doctors appointments/cruise-directing the relationship from the heroine, liberating her from those particular annoying and mundane chores.

Yeah, so gaming culture has a big population of sexist shitbags. That’s no reason to flush Kotaku’s entire commentariat down the can. We’re over there fighting the good fight. You should be on our side!

I don’t suppose I could get you to highlight the utter dearth of female players in professional eSports until the situation changes, could I? I know, I know, the term “professional eSports” sounds like something you’d only mention in a suicide note, but, still, we’ve got a problem here, and no one at Kotaku seems to…

They offer a copy of the product up front or at a discount as a dividend for funding development of the product.

If you were paying for early access to something that already existed (and did not require additional funding), then you’d be preordering.

As a Kickstarter backer is directly contributing funding to the…

Disagree in the strongest possible terms.

Investment requires the outlay of capital in expectation of (or hope for) a dividend.

In Kickstarter’s case, backers are laying out capital in expectation of (or hope for) the release of the product they are funding.

They are not preordering the product, as the product does not…

They’d be a pre-ordering system if the product was already guaranteed to come to market.

Every other major pre-order program has been centered around a product that was headed for market, come hell, high water, or a plague of cats (see also: Assassin’s Creed: Unity).

Kickstarter projects fund the development of the…

Oh look... Another company trying to ride on Star Citizen’s success trail.

ok this is probably the most cliched response ever, so feel free to throw tomatoes, but i’d play a witcher with her as a lead..

Or, and this is crazy: try to get it right.

I think the logic behind it is that most parents would preffer their kids watch, for example, Basketball on TV and that will get them motivated to play that sport.
And I mean, I can understand the argument. It sure is a lot healthier for kids to go play sports than stay all day at home playing videogames.

Then again,…

The problem with that argument is that any mod actually worth paying money for (as opposed to “Make X character killable” or something suitably ridiculous that could be accomplished with one console command) is one where the modder’s made an overwhelming portion of the content involved from scratch, like models,…

That depends on the exact mod. If it’s a texture pack then it’s extremely likely that the textures weren’t taken by them. If it’s “make X character be Y character from already in the game”, it’s very little of their content. However if it’s a lighting enhancer or a completely brand-new model that they created, then…

There’s value in amateurism. Modders are free to work on something for as long and hard as they like. A professional developer has to be paid for his time. And there’s probably not enough money in mod-making even if this takes off to make it worth the effort for a lot of them.

The fallacy of GamerGate is also contextualized in this line: “but that’s actually what most GGs are concerned about.” How would you actually go about proving “most”? By being an anonymous group that’s opposed to formal organization or outward hierarchy, you cannot by any measure say “most” anything. This group cannot…

It’s funny how GG is trying to spin it as “different political opinions are banned!” or “Leftists kick girl gamers out! Misogyny!”

As much as I’d love to VR ALL THE THINGS, this is the situation :