It is not favoritism. It’s just that Sony is not the one being examined here because they are not trying to make a $69B acquisition. I totally agree that Sony is being somewhat hypocritical in their submissions, but the regulators are not going to turn around and start wagging their finger at Sony for their actions —…

I’ve already responded on this downthread. My point is there’s a difference between an incredibly unlikely one-off supposed “error” that just happens to be wildly racist, and an error that’s happened multiple times but wasn’t racist before, and this time it is. The former is so much unlikely “bad luck” that the more…

Well a lot of micro-aggressions are genuinely unintentional and purely the result of unfortunate ignorance/entitlement or societal racism leaking into behaviour patterns (my company does a lot of training on this kind of thing lol), so I think this is a little different. But yes they want to be able to “do a racism”…

They think that if their racism is covert, then you can’t call it racist. This kind of trolling is so persistent in America. It’s the reason why the term “micro aggression” is a thing.

Thanks lol.

Uh-huh, but experience exists for a reason, and pretending it doesn’t, and pretending it should never be taken into account is just deluding yourself.

No, sorry if I was unclear.

As I said in another post, Halo fans are extremely finickity, if this sort of thing had happened before, not only would people have noticed, but they’d have screenshots and the like. But in fact all people have is that the tool is also called this.

Yes I did, thanks, I’m British, I’ve watched Attenborough nature documentaries my entire life. Also anyone who has just any interest in evolution, like at all, should know what a Bonobo is, and how very distinct they are from Chimpanzees in terms of behaviour. I don’t think I even know someone who wouldn’t know that…

Reminds me of how we spent decades complaining about the racist art in Magic The Gathering and were gaslit until one of the artists literally started a Nazi art website. Nothing more obnoxious than white people trying to explain why something can’t possibly be racist because they’re terrified they might be in a…

Highly unlikely. The only scenario where this might be plausibly an honest mistake is if the scheme names are initially given an autogenerated name with no human interaction, and at no point are they checked by a person, and the only point where they are seen by human eyes is when they are given a proper name, and the…

even if there was a Mistake by say this getting past QA or something, some ass hat made a racist joke and slaped the name on there in the first place. That was not a Mistake 

Not sure you will see this as I think I’m grey’d (I don’t comment enough to know how this all works. But wow! You are really succinctly saying what I often think about when it comes to games and especially game story-telling. A lot of the games held up as “seminal” (the word that kicked this off) just simply do not…

It doesn't seem like a mistake at all. Someone wanted to do some racist shit and they did it. It's as simple as that.

Does it though? I’m usually one to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t know about this one. A codename for an old software tool that isn’t even being used anymore somehow gets set as the name? That seems far fetched. Or, someone tried to make a racist joke and it somehow snuck through? Unfortunately…

The political ideas of the game were, just as with the original Bioshock, extremely shallow, but even more “front and centre” here, which really drove home how very poorly-considered they were.

Nothing you’re saying is wrong except I think you have too much faith in people understanding and thinking about the ending. I’ve seen little evidence of that, from both fans and journalists. The vast majority seem to think Joel is basically a heroic figure, maybe driven a little crazy, but not essentially a bad…

The main influence it had was to usher in an era of the “Dadification” of video games, something that is ongoing to this day (c.f. the modern God of War games for an easy example). It was one of the first modern AAA games focused on manipulating the ever-living fuck out of dudes in their 30s through 40s, rather than…

On a side note, is The Last of Us really seminal ? Other than a remaster a sequel and now a remake, are there a lot of games inspired by The Last of Us out there ? Days Gone maybe ? But isn’t it structured in a more open world way ?

It’s also notable that Rockstar’s not re-listing the originals on any store but their own, where they take a bigger cut of the profits. So even their mea culpa is self-serving.