Preach.

Why can’t people just let them play the games? Why not harass senators, congresspeople, and local officials instead of some grunts in the military that are literally just playing videogames on the internet?

Or banning people altogether because the author is thin-skinned.

So you’re asking the poor schmuck who’s running a Twitch channel to answer for the war crimes of the entire US military and you’re surprised that his orders are “don’t answer questions you’re not qualified to answer?” ‘K.

Ian, you can have your opinion but what you fail to see is that Twitch isn’t the platform for the debate. The entire internet isn’t your perpetual debate playground. Asking one of these Navy kids about war crimes is like asking a burger flipper at McDonald’s about killing cows. The answer is going to be: “What the…

What exactly are people expecting to happen here?

I find it pretty funny of this site clamoring about free speech in this situation, but has a system in place with their comment section which promotes an echo chamber by keeping some comments greyed...

I’m pretty sure the people you want to talk to (*ahem* vote against) are in Congress, to be honest.

You will never get a real response out of dealing with the Armed Forces of any nation. They are not meant for, nor trained for, debating with people. Why would you expect that?

That’s what Congress is for. Funny but last…

If the shrine in question was specifically the controversial Yasukini shrine, then I’d say the Koreans have a slight reason to complain.

I disagree with some of the opinions of Kotaku’s writers (I’m ostensibly on the same “side” overall, but yeah...). But up until the last... Maybe year or so? I felt that I could disagree with their views, but felt like those writers were able to present and argument in a rational way that I could at least understand.…

All of the main sims in my neighborhood are, by design, from Eastern Europe (more specifically, they’re designed with Russian, Finnish, and Baltic influences in terms of looks and names.) If they go to Sim-Japan and see a Shinto-inspired shrine, they’re probably going to look at it with puzzlement and not know what to…

Yeah, the Koreans have a long and storied history of knee-jerk reactions to anything even REMOTELY Japanese existing, no matter how innocent.

All of Ian's articles are as insufferable as this. Look up his "reporting" on Biden's Animal Crossing Island. He spends the entire article bashing Biden instead of actually talking about the video game piece. It's almost like he is on a political site and not a site about video games.

Well, that was nuanced.

The Twitch channel is a recruiting tool for the Navy, it’s not there as a debate outlet. So it’s to be expected that any toxic questions get a soft response. Also, it’s easy for lightly educated kids to sit behind a keyboard and throw out claims of “war crimes” without needing to answer for context or validity. In the…

Two thoughts:

Cultural appropriation isn’t a real problem as far as I’m concerned.

Making something disrespectful to one group because of another’s pearl clutching at the depiction of the objective culture of the first just seems like a bad idea. There is always Korean “backlash” whenever anything Japanese is depicted anywhere, so you either have to decide that you’re going to depict Japanese…

So by being “inclusive” and removing... *bowing in a japan themed expansion* you’ve made it less japanese. Cool.  

This seems to imply that any cultural body that has ever been in conflict with another should not be represented in any way in entertainment