Another one of these articles means it’s time for all the weirdos to log on and explain how Nintendo “has every right to protect their IP and who even cares about this old game anyway?”

it’s not that i bury my head in the sand; it’s that there is a gigantic propaganda machine that feeds us constant anti-china rhetoric, and i just happen to seek information outside of that in order to be as informed as possible. so it is more like i was previously completely buried in the sand of us propaganda, and by…

[Just finished writing this and goddamn is it long so I came back up here to apologize and explain from the top that I have a pain disorder that is flaring up and keeping me from sleeping, so I just kept writing here to keep my mind occupied on something else and eventually ended up with this absolutely monstrous…

the thing about “whataboutism” is that it’s just a fancy way of saying “you are pointing out hypocrisy and I dont like it.”

Also, the US government doesn’t even want your personal data to know if you’re friends with a dissident. It’s enough for them to collect your personal data and investigate you and possibly mistakenly charge you with a crime—at which point your freedom of movement could be restricted to anything ranging from the state…

There are a lot of groups who have regularly faced tacitly sanctioned extrajudicial violence from state enforcers for hundreds of years here in the west, and while there’s more accountability being demanded today, its legacy continues unabated. And ask a newly pregnant Texas woman with a period tracking app on her…

“No one’s being targeted for extrajudicial violence or denied freedom of movement over here”

Okay, guys from America or any other country. I hope you understand that this matter is purely a commercial dispute and has nothing to do with politics and conspiracy theories. The impact of this event is not just that players can’t play games. In China, there are a large number of game media, youtube, professional…

I have always been leery of business dealing with China because of their authoritarian regime when it comes online data and am glad Blizzard has chosen to pull out.

Well the silver lining is that we probably won’t get a sequel? I couldn’t imagine something more off-brand for THIS game than to become a franchise. I absolutely love DE and am fine with it being a one-off miracle of a game. Hope the creative people behind it continue to make great stuff though!

Sweetie, hate to tell you, but Japan as a country actually has black people in it, and is also one of the most openly racist societies in the developed world.  If you don't think that racism is morally repugnant no matter WHO is doing it, the problem is YOU.  Furthermore, this article is specifically criticising the…

“You’re not allowed to have opinions about video games if they’re Japanese” is one hell of a take.

The problem here is that the director tried to insult our intelligence with a very, very stupid answer, not with a story justification.

This is a game whose script was written in English first and is specifically targeting the global market. Not some niche Japanese game that was lucky to get translated to English. Beyond that, YoshiP in his statements talked about being accurate to medieval Europe as a reason for the lack of diversity, except medieval…

The fact that the limits of your imagination is “less diverse human beings” is really sad.

Honestly, a pretty diseased and toxic mindset you have going on here. That criticism is either a power to police and FORCE people to do things or it is not that (which is... weak, I guess?). That’s not how critical response works at all and you are the one putting off deeply weird vibes by suggesting this.

Being a South Indian who still lives in the region, Venba is going to hit very differently for me. I've said it before, the last time Kotaku shone its spotlight on the game, but it warms my heart that this particular geography of the country is finally getting its due without being homogenised to portray a larger…

Who are we? We’re the people that buy and play the games. We’re not forcing anything on “Japan” a country of many millions of ppl most of whom don’t give a shit about JRPG’s.

We’re telling the ppl who want us to buy their shit how to get it done. 

I just want to say thank you for not making this into a slideshow. feels good to be able to easily read a list of stuff again

While this is relatively easy to do in English (basically, avoiding gendered talk when talking to the player’s avatar and using “they” whenever NPCs talk about the player to each other), it is very complicated for romance languages like French and Spanish for example. Adjectives change form depending on the gender of…