I never claimed to be “more enlightened than thou”, I was just stating my own mantra on the subject. If it’s not hurting anyone, particularly me, I really can’t bring myself to care about the content of a game, movie or TV show I wasn’t ever going to watch in the first place. Call it laziness if you want. Lethargy,…

Yes, media can affect societal norms, but only to a point. A niche game here or there that explores taboo subjects or things outside societal norms, whether with deft perspicacity or just a rote scratching of the surface of said issue will not cause a societal shift the likes you are speaking of. There was an article…

You get idiots on any side of a debate. That’s not a “both sides are equally at fault” argument, that’s just kind of how it shakes out. Inevitably in discussions that get heated, you’ll get extreme views from either side. Which is to say you’ll get someone that gets pissy that “they can’t say ‘faggot’”, as you stated,…

While I agree with you completely, you have to remember that a lot of the people that have a problem with issues of scantily clad and potentially sexualized female characters in a Japanese videogame are also the ones that, while not calling for an outright ban of a game like Hatred, were the ones banging the drum…

Yeah, keeping that in mind, that The Game Awards invites a publication and not a specific journalist to be a judge, I don’t really see how responsibility for the current gender ratios of the judging panel falls to them. Equally perplexing is Polygon’s response which read to me as “Well, if I had known none of the…

Yeah, it’s weird how it’s easier to make shit up than to get every little detail of various cultures right to the point that nobody has any niggles left to complain about.