The thing with BOTW is... the map was never all that interesting, right? It’s not Elden Ring where the very geometry can be a source of awe, at least not frequently. BOTW’s sense of exploration was more about what you actually found when you got there, the different interactions and secrets and puzzles etc. etc.…

I love the old "if you jump down a pit, you get an extra man" bit. It's a great reminder that you should never trust nobody.

“Capcom has instead seemingly dug into my brain and pulled out the version of the game I remember playing in 2005”

Imo, it’s slightly LESS obnoxious than original’s Ashley, but since the game does take place in that game release year, I feel the dialogue does fit for a college girl from the early 2000s.

“It couldn’t be legally proven that I was a complete creep in this particular way. I ask you to forget all the other ways in which it has been proven that I am a complete creep.”

Yeah but the dipshit upthread is bitching that he was fired and that somehow undermined his rights. I assume they fired him to avoid backlash based on the DMs to underage girls, in which case court doesn’t really come into it.

I clicked on the link more interested in the jailbait evidence.  Guy is still a creep and him ignoring it makes me think he doesn’t see anything wrong with it.  No good name to restore as far as I’m concerned. 

Whether it ends up “good for the industry” depends entirely on the details of monetization and ownership.
That some kids got their start by doing unpaid child labour for someone else to capitalize on (in several layers) in Roblox is not “good for the industry”. They could, and would in earlier years, have gotten that…

The presumption in your country for white/wealthy men is innocence. The presumption in your country for brown and black/poor men and female victims of sexual assault is guilty.

Are you suggesting the DMs were faked?

Yeah, he kept calling her “dumb biiiiiitch”, presumably texting in his Rick voice, as though that made it okay.

They dropped him over him hitting on younger fans via social media.

“an embittered ex trying to bypass due process” by.. formally pressing charges in court and not saying anything about it for 2 years until NBC discovered it when he had to appear in court? Sounds exactly like due process to me.

I think people coming down hard on this are missing the big picture. This isn’t a “okay we want fortnite more” step by Epic, this is a “Let’s get people into our editing ecosystem and stay there”. I’m 100% certain we’ll see a story in less than a decade of a younger person being interviewed about their smash-hit indie…

Hey that’s completely reductive and totally unfair!

I assume it will mostly be porn

Yeah, his own game company and Cartoon Network cut ties with him REALLY fast, which makes me inclined to believe that this accusation is the tip of the iceberg.

Soooo... We’re gonna continue to ignore the DM’s he sent underage girls?

I had honestly forgotten about the domestic abuse allegations, I thought most of his being “canceled” was on the basis of the number of inappropriate texts with an underage fan (which then prompted other similar texts and DMs to be released).