I’m guessing that some other adaptations will be made to English fairly soon for exactly that reason. I was actually talking to a coworker about this last week. We work with several groups including people using singular they pronouns. Sometimes when referring to the person AND the group, it requires an awkward amount…

Just out of curiosity, since clearly his First Amendment rights were violated. At what point was he arrested and charged with “hate speech” and sentenced to literal incarceration within the US Judicial System?

I don’t use these filthy websites. Full of nothing but trans “women”. Men in dresses. Soft, feminine men in red lipstick a black choker and a huge penis in panties. It makes me sick thinking about them every single day.

When people are on suicide watch, the guards are supposed to, you know, watch them to make sure they don’t kill themselves. No one may have technically murdered him, but they certainly didn’t stop him from doing it himself, which was their job. Whether they did that because they’re incompetent, because he’s a…

Trans kids rarely get any kind of surgery - maybe top surgery at most. Which cis teens get at much higher rates. About 8000 cis teen girls got breast reductions or enhancements in 2020 alone. https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/9/28/more-teens-get-breast-implants-trans-top-surgery

So...there’s not really a debate to be had about puberty blockers. Those medications are safe, completely reversible, and in many cases life-saving. Claiming otherwise is simply fear-mongering or blinding stupidity. As for the surgery on minors, it simply does not happen outside of an infinitesimally small number of…

Look at you fancy pants with multiple games. Taking out family and social life time, 12 hours a week is nearly impossible, and multiple games I haven’t had time for in years. I’ve gone the other route, and when a free ps+ game is good, I figure on it and can probably get through it in less than 2 months. Except when…

You don’t even need the victim to stand up for themselves. With these cases, you’ll get people arguing that crime in Chicago justifies murdering someone in New York. 

It’s not a grandfather fetish, it’s a short-game inheritance fetish.

A great point! You’re not wrong, having things rise to the top because they support the power fiction that is attractive (and enjoyable from a gameplay standpoint) is a big part of it.
I think large AAA studios (who tend to be risk averse) don’t experiment nearly enough, but that only reinforces the point you made,…

This is a great take, imo. I think what a lot of people are going to respond to is the examples Dr Gray is talking about rather than exploring the concepts, but it’s not a bad thing to consider how tweaking existing genres and tropes could revitalize gameplay loops we’ve been experiencing for years.

I dunno, to me that’s where it gets way more interesting from a game design perspective.
For what it’s worth I don’t think they’re saying Link is some sort of imperialist, or that you’re a bad person for liking the game (it’s rad as hell, you should love it), they’re just pointing out how ingrained ideas in society…

…Promptly reinstalled Dark Arisen. Dragon’s Dogma is my FAVORITE game of all time.

I played through DD: Dark Arisin twice. Once on my pc and then again on the switch. One of my favorite Arpgs of all time. Super excited to play this!

Fuck.  Yes.  So pumped for this.

Anyone who says writing is easy has probably never tried to write a well thought out, cohesive story that doesn’t have terrible dialogue and rely on cliches.

Uh…

“Despite Golden Corral increasing prices, as many restaurants have had to, the chain has retained customer loyalty because of the value afforded by certain updates.”

How White Men Fight:

I mean, honestly - and I say this as someone who regularly plays 80+ hour RPGs for the characters and story - has anyone ever really bought a Zelda game for the plot?