It's not a bug, it's a fea... wait, it actually is a bug.

I think it’s a reference to “The Green Ribbon”, a short story where a woman wears a ribbon around her neck for her entire life. At the end of the story it’s revealed that the ribbon is the only thing keeping her head attached. The idea being that that’s what’s happening with Axel and his shirt here.

So he didn’t cheat or otherwise do anything scummy, he just....reported a bunch of times at once. I’m not part of this community, so maybe there’s longtime clear unwritten rules about this, but this just sounds like sour grapes to me. 

The whole point of Nintendo multiplayer games, specially Mario Kart, IS the constant ruthless betrayal of love and friendship

Why present it as a dichotomy? There’s a whole spectrum of options between “superficial trope” and “ignore completely”, at least some of which are assuredly better than the binary choice you seem to be constraining it to.

The only real way to prevent this level of toxicity in game environments is to fight against it from the start. Once a culture becomes toxic... it’s really, really hard to pull it back.

That is not a good excuse whatsoever. There are individuals out there that could lend their services in both language and social studies fields, and it would have helped tremendously basing anything in the world off of Asian influences. Something like time shouldn’t also be a factor as the game wasn’t made in a few…

Our gig economy hellscape means they could’ve hopped on Upwork (or Fiverr, if they’re monstrously cheap) and found someone to translate the text with ease. This lady’ll do 250 words for $5 (she should be asking closer to $25):

Precisely. I’m Korean-American. This sort of thing isn’t shaking my identity down to its core and bringing me to tears.

Really owning that username, huh?

Let me ask you this: SHOULD Trump have resigned? If the answer is “yes,” than Cuomo should resign for the same reason. 

It’s a made-up language that happens to look exactly like Korean. OK, that makes sense.

Despite the grumpy commenters, and not having strong feelings one way or another about Ariana Grande, this is conceptually one of the coolest things I’ve seen in video games in recent years, and I would have been absolutely thrilled by it back in high school. The merging of a live music event and gaming into an…

lol

Well, that was certainly a wild ride.  

Australia has a doctrine of exhaustion since 2020, similar to the doctrine of first sale in the US. All rights of the patent holder, except the right to make the product, are exhausted on first sale. As long as McDonalds legally purchased the controllers, Sony has no legal grounds to prevent McDonalds from painting…

I got nothing witty to say. This is a great and necessary article. 

Great article, full stop. Thanks for bringing to light some amazing people I had no idea existed, even though I was aware of most of the things they’ve worked on... which tells me how necessary this article was.

He gets flak because he doesn’t have the art school pedigree I suppose. I think they’re great and he’s got a nice style going. Modern art sucks anyways, you either make one thing really really large, or a bunch of things really really small. That and make it look like graffiti or a Blythe doll drawn by a 5 year old.