Is this the part where we pretend the problematic person was never really talented/important anyway?

It’s disingenuous and doesn’t help at all. History is FULL of very talented complete assholes.  Re-writing the narrative serves no functional purpose to anyone.

How are so many people missing the obvious joke here?  It’s mind-blowing.

Wow, this is actually incredible.

Honestly most HD mods either end up being barely noticeable upgrades, change lighting to be different but not “better” and sometimes arguably worse, etc. Often with comparison videos that make you go “Uh...what did you change?”

Not this one.  The quality increase is absolutely clear,…

$3.6 Billion honestly seems like a big over-spend for a company with one active IP on its hands (I realize they have another “in-development”).

You say that as though design choices cannot be lagging behind.  They absolutely can.

It’s pretty clear you don’t understand how any of this works.

Yeah Kendrick is 36 and Hader is 43, so really this is a nothing age difference, especially in Hollywood.

“Another thing to keep in mind is that Nintendo is literally the only company that actually makes the majority of their profit from their consoles sales”

No they don’t. In terms of RAW numbers, sure, the aprox. 100 million Switch consoles sold has generated ~25-30 billion, but that isn’t all profit, it isn’t even…

“especially because of the fact there is probably a very large chance that a lot of people disgusted with Activision-Blizzard may actually translate their boycott to Microsoft gaming”

You’re kidding yourself if you think there’s anything more than a tiny, TINY percentage of people who will actually do this.

The average…

Not the hero we deserve, but the one we need right now.

“Did MS clean out house when they bought up Zenimax/Bethesda? Zenimax’ lawsuit-happy staff is still around pissing on people for just thinking of words Bethesda “own”.”

...this does not at all compare to what is happening with Activision. Not even close.

What does MS care if Zenimax sues over IP rights? It hasn’t done…

This might be the most baffling thing I read all week.  So...thank you?

This is well and good, but Jeff Ross still has a point because for a company like Sony, sales are the bottom line.

If they made the studio feel like it was a commercial disappointment, then that’s absolutely nonsense and worth calling out.

Game quality is another matter entirely.

“I’m legit confused if this is supposed to be an insult.”

100 percent intended as an insult.  Japan’s legendary xenophobia leaks out of every use of the term “Foreigners”.

This is fair and sort of what I was trying to drive at. How much, culturally, does a Black American have in common with, say, a Black Egyptian?

What is “essential Blackness”? Are there things that a character must touch on in order to be authentic?

I guess these are mostly rhetorical, but it seems like there’s no clear…

Fair enough, this was more a thought formulated by reading 2 articles here back-to-back talking about Black protagonists, which seemed to come at the issue from completely different directions.

I’m going to be honest, it’s really weird to see the dichotomy of “Black people are not a monolith” protest but then see articles basically say the exact opposite of that. What dose “black-passing” even mean? How do you reconcile the idea of an, apparently, universal Black Culture with the idea that black people are…

They’ve lost 40 percent of the value in the last six months, and almost 50 percent since February.  That’s a disastrous result, and frankly Kotick should be gone base only on the math.

You completely missed the joke.

“The game uses an active time battle system, reminiscent of some early Final Fantasy games. Each fight has a timeline, which lets you see who will act and when.”

This may be a minor quibble, but the combat system isn’t an Active Time Battle system. For that to be the case, an ATB bar would be filling up in real-time,…