I’m just wondering if there will ever come a time when we stop being so freaked out by nudity. You’d think by the 21st century people would be more comfortable with the entire perception of human anatomy and sexuality... but I guess that’s too much to expect.

Remember folks: if you commit a sex crime (surreptitious photography, by definition) by filming people in the bathroom without their knowledge ahead of time, or without their consent during (as was clearly evidenced by the event in question!), you’re gonna be banned for a week. But you WILL get to come back with a…

trying to manufacture controversy where none exists

Keeping up with the “you can’t use that word” anymore treadmill is definitely exhausting. 

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

uuuuuugh

Kotaku is a rightly riding the video game crunch story pretty hard. However, when an anime series and its animators are obviously being crunched really hard (the story of this season is well known) due to having less than half a year to prepare to make a 24 episode series, we laugh at it. Bad form.

Making a large, complex piece of software from scratch is VASTLY, VASTLY more complicated than making a movie or TV show. Even the biggest, most complex movies are child's play compared to the enormity of the challenge of releasing an average video game.

In an industry that’s constantly trying to push the envelope, where most of what they’re trying to make has never been done before, how do you expect anything close to perfect planning. The problem is that investors have expectations, they don’t understand or care how the product is made, just that it gets made on…

It’s very easy to work in just about any other profession, and point the blame at planning. I work in the industry and have seen very clever and smart people build production schedules, and things still fall off. When making a game from it’s inception, you just can’t predict what will happen. The only thing you can…

Nothing in this particular article states what exactly the crunch conditions are for CDPR for the next 6 months, other than they will be working overtime.

It’s all exhausting. Suddenly if a dev even includes women or something, then the Gamers™ lose their shit and call it SJW propaganda or pandering and run to their youtubers to confirm their bullshit. It’s become a 3-month cycle, with the same arguments being presented on both sides.

While only just a little off topic from gaming, you really should include the Naked Philanthropist who managed to raise over one mill on her own by giving her nudes for every $10 spent with receipt sent. https://perezhilton.com/naked-philanthropist-australia-wildfire/ 

Even if it’s not game related its still fun.

Just like you and your buddies at other sites spinning the same narrative. Getting ratio’d like there is no tomorrow.  Giving this game free press.  I think i’ll go ahead a buy it.  Never even knew about it till now.

That’s totally fair. If a writer wants to criticize a game for not featuring gender representation, that’s totally fine. That’s valuable journalism, and it helps you make the informed choice I discussed in my original post.

Was it?

If a game or developer does not align with your politics and you feel strongly about it, then don’t buy the game. By all means, take a stand. Sign an online petition stating that you’re not buying the game because it fails to give equal representation to women. If you want to enact real change and enough people feel…

I mean what exactly are they supposed to do? Most anchors under a major organization umbrella (like sinclair) are under contract, and if they break rank they will be financially ruined and possibly even opening themselves up to legal liability.

I mean we are talking long-term lawsuits that individuals would never be…