I find fascinating to read the comments here from people saying they’re not into these type of games, preferring more direction about how to play while, to me, a 34 year old guy who grew up playing the original Wasteland and a lot of other stuff that didn’t tell you how to play, this game sounds amazing.

I wondered if my feelings for Alistair would change similarly, but the game crashed before I could initiate some flirty dialogue. I bought a new computer in the middle of this grand experiment, and while transferring my save file worked, something somewhere went wrong such that now, every so often, the game crashes.…

Thanks for this Beth. I’ve had to endure a weekend of armchair-epidemiologists on social media passing this around and I was looking forward to finding out how this was being misinterpreted (almost everyone sharing it was basically using the “let young, healthy people do whatever they want, this isn’t a deadly…

This was really all I had the time or interest to engage in. I already said what I said.

You were too kind here

Wait, before we get into the news, which is important, what’s really important is these kente cloth-wearing white people because that shit was hilarious. And so was the kneeling. I mean I know that the GOP is off the hook in their craziness, and as the secretary of minutes for the black folks, I have to say that this…

The Native American headdress has particular cultural significance similar to military insignia, though. What Adele did was more like going to Texas and getting a giant blowout and a state flag shirt or going to California and dressing like a slob.

I can see that, but it seems weird to lean in this hard on a F2P mobile game. That seems like the kind of game/platform where you want to draw in the broadest possible audience in hopes of finding your few whales. But I don’t run a major company, so maybe someone did the math and the research and figured out that if…

Their sales are down and they are laser focusing on the 30 something, conservative, white male gamer that has been their core constituency for the last 20 years and figuring they will sell more to those people than they will lose in people walking away. I don’t think that assumption is correct, but I think that’s…

Well, ever since the right decided Nazis were good guys, they need some different bad guys to fight... it’s only fair.

I think Ubisoft is trying to tell us something about itself. 

There are certainly left wing or politically neutral conspiracy theories out there, but the specific ones that this game seems to be basing its plot on are ones that are almost exclusively believed by the far right, essentially that all protests aren’t ordinary people upset about injustices, but are all actors being…

I think that once you start suggesting that you think people not wanting to be murdered by government-sanctioned organizations for the color of their skin could be part of a conspiracy...... you’re opening yourself up to be lumped in with any number of nutters out there.

Yeah, the one token poc is someone who they asked about speaking up and that person who is out numbered will evidently do for the good of the company...

Because the alt right, and by extension the Republican Party itself, is increasingly reliant on conspiracy theories to peddle its bullshit.  Yes, I remember the days when conspiracy theories seemed relatively harmless; now they’re increasingly taking on a political bent, and typically cast people on the left as…

Jesus CHRIST Ubisoft, what the hell is wrong with you?! I went into this article assuming it would just be a case of them using something a graphic or imagery similar to the raised-fist in a poorly thought out or negative context that somebody should have noticed and scrapped ahead of time. But the fact that the whole…

Fuck Ubisoft and Activision for using the military and police fetish for profit.

There was no coincidence or mistake, the game’s plot is clearly ripped from the headlines. “Violent anarchists” co-opting a revolutionary movement is more right wing nonsense. Any chance you guys can do an article looking into the recent wave of fascist games? Call of Duty and Tom Clancy were always right wing…

Since this isn’t segregation, yes, pretty happy.

That’s absolutely not what was said.