I wouldn’t say it’s comical in the least - the Danelaw is arguably the most noteworthy region in the viking age, where much of the conflict and intrigue of famous Norseborn names like Harald Hardrada, Halfdan Ragnarsson, and Cnut the Great lied. Much of it was owned by them until they were booted out in 1066. Also,…

This was my take as well. I love vikings as much as the next person, but at the same time, playing as them in a videogame as the heroes is a little weird. The dude was trying to place it like, “Obviously the Saxons also live in England and they don’t want you to take that land so they’re going to try to stop you,”…

It’s not so much that as that they’ve thought vikings were a cool subject (which yeah) only much later for someone to note “hold on, we seem to be playing as the colonisers in this one. How are they the hero fighting for freedom,” and no one could give a good answer.

I did love how the pre-show saw the guy really try and humanise colonialisation right before a gameplay section about the Viking Invasion where the gameplay activity is raiding a peaceful monastery.

That said, knowing how it went down the first time,

STICK TO SPROTS

Listen, you patronising cretin. Just because you also happen to buy into her transphobia doesn’t make it a “perfectly valid criticism”. The problem with people like you is that you want to wave the ‘opinion’ card around any time someone tries to call you out on your bullshit. Sometimes it isn’t an opinion: sometimes…

Here’s the best part: None of you will engage me.

Oh yeah, I forgot that video games are a charity where we’re all obligated to buy every single game that comes out regardless of whether or not we’re interested in it, because otherwise someone might “lose work.”

Ah yes, the good old “why would you punish someone for an opinion” defense of hate speech. 

I am in no way compelled to give my money to people I disagree with.

Legitimate question: What’s a good alternative to Kotaku that’s not so full of these non video game related stories?

Maybe don’t take projects from known bigots.  You are who you get in bed with.  

P.S:

“Rory Williams (née Pond, eventually)”

“Oh, hey, that’s really impressive! I didn’t even know that the Game Boy had that technol—”

More like, -100% stress build up, +20% time with family.

A bit of context here should be that unions in Sweden(and most of Europe) are very common. According to a quick google search about 70% of the Swedish working force is in a Union.

Ma’am, Sonic is a hedgehog. This is the kind of racial injustice he has to deal with on a daily basis.


...Shit. I’m going to have to burn my house down now.

I don’t mean any shade, and I’m not speaking of all fans, obviously