“Book Burning” implies that there were things IN THE BOOKS THAT THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT PEOPLE TO READ, you fucking moron.

And what if all the proceeds from the ROM site were going to feed starving orphans? The guy is a hero! All you need to do is accept hypothetical scenarios that have no evidence as indisputable fact!

Hmmmmm. You can’t say that. But if he’s been outwardly and vocally progressive since, I’m not sure how else you can earn the benefit of the doubt. I’m usually cynical about public apologies, because most of the time the person in question hasn’t actually changed or been vocal in the other direction. But in this case…

Is this the biggest controversy in gaming? No, of course not. Would it be nice if orientalism wasn’t perpetually used by white people as short-hand for futuristic/exotic/mystical, etc.? Yes.

All the comments I’m seeing are quite reserved, you’re being a bit hypberolic with your take here.

Writer: “Good game has a weird but understandable problem with it, some people might find it interesting. I should make a note that it clearly wasn’t malicious in there, small indie title after all, but the devs have been quiet when its been brought up to them before, just focus on what’s wrong here.”

No, NFTs are bullshit. The technology that powers them devours electricity and the only “ownership” they offer is contingent on the services that verify said ownership and deliver said content continuing to operate in perpetuity.

I mean unless you know Christian Cooper personally, maybe don’t paint him as morally bankrupt. Arcesius could be right, they could also be wrong and maybe Cooper just wanted to move on with his life and not deal with the process of pressing charges. And honestly that’s fair. 

I find it sad but possibly telling that so many of the dedications here are from former Kotaku staff. They’ve really bled you guys out slowly, haven’t they.

This is a nice longform article in the vein of Jason’s Schreier’s reporting of behind-the-scenes game development. Glad to see this article type again. Great job!

Get the fuck outta here you clown. 

I was once forced to take shelter from a tornado .under an overpass on the KS turnpike. Back then (before cellphone warnings), it was possible to get caught by surprise like that. I was driving a semi, lightly loaded, and the tornado was heading towards me from the side. Most of the 4-wheelers on the highway that day…

The Expanse is one of the best Sci-Fi shows ever made. It helps in no small parts that these ships and respectful adherence to physics that informs the designs said ships are some of major part of what made The Expanse so damn compelling.

Boooo! If it acts like a bird and talks like a bird who cares if it's a man in a bird suit? Boooo! 

Solution: they should just let you put whatever horrible thing you want on your controller, but they CC a picture of it to your mom.

Dude, this is a fantastic idea!

 Except they’re not copying the words. They made the book for the letters to go in from scratch. Take Two has no case.

I think there are folks reading a bit too much into this.

Haha well, I’d hoped the context of the rest of the post made that statement sound a little less silly, but I guess not. What I meant was if all games have stuff cut during development, what makes Mass Effect different that doing so renders the game lesser? Cut content is just the reality of... really any form of…