I take it all back - I actually prefer the official redesign. Those eyes ... those cold, dead eyes ...

quote “This is true. As the game is now, you cannot create friend lobbies online.”

Totally misunderstand is a gross inaccuracy.  Don't get me wrong, this sucks and they should fix it with online coop with friends or private lobbies for both modes, but considering no one even knew the game had online multiplayer until a week ago, I think it's not the biggest deal.  Tons of gamers fly solo anyway. And…

You can definitely still buy it.  Was online friend matchup the only reason you were going to buy it?

Okay...

FUCK this is horrifying go back go back go back

I wouldn’t really call this a make or break feature for a Mario maker game, still gonna be an amazing game. 

I’m so insanely excited to Super Mario Maker 2. I wanted the original but didn’t have a Wii U anymore by then. I wanted the 3DS version but stopped myself because of the inability to publish courses. I’m still crazy excited, but damn is it a disappointment that you can’t play online with friends.

Remember when games used to be about games and not about who people are fucking.

This is peak Kotaku. A bunch of Americans commenting on something with zero real context from a cultural perspective. Japan doesn’t have strict gender roles(just watch Japanese TV for a bit and at least one LGBT person is on every show ffs).

as a femme, I’m a little skeptical of any cis-gay-men-first approach to queer representation

I’m gay, and started to watch the first video but turned it off. In that video it was talking about how sex as the culmination of a relationship was dehumanizing and then talked about people giving gifts or making decisions for the character to like you to was abhorrent in some way.

Your article’s piqued my interest to watch it. I have a tendency to write off anything Feminist Frequency related (I find that Anita Sarkeesian’s philosophies aren’t constructive or revelatory most of the time, and her public actions/reactions can be a bit gross), so I’ve totally missed Carolyn Petit. I’ll give it a…

“I didn’t love her level of focus on Dream Daddy as the most prominent example of queer representation done right—as a femme, I’m a little skeptical of any cis-gay-men-first approach to queer representation”

Lmnop?

The New Trope Of Using “Tropes” Instead Of Other Common Words Is Tiring And Sad

Dissection for the sake of dissection gets boring fast. These “conversations” are only meaningful and interesting if they lead to the creation of new things as a result. I’d be more interested in a video series that showcased that.

Here’s what bothers me about *coverage* of these tropes: when there aren’t any tropes, we assume that the character isn’t (alphabet soup) unless it’s spoonfed to us. Just change your mindset and Joel in The Last of Us is a raging Bear trying to protect his cub. My sexuality shouldn’t be my defining characteristic, and…

Most likely you will now call me incredible naive, but I’ve never seen Ghirahim as a queer character. I’ve neither seen him as a heterosexual character - for me, he was just a weird bad guy, and as long as there is not evidence in his actions, words or the game’s narration, in my eyes he doesn’t have any sexuality at…

No one is making excuses about these issues. We simply don’t care. I have no idea who “we” is, but I had to put something in there.