Agree that the line under the headline is weirdly presumptuous and not backed up by data. But it’s also an opinion piece and it really doesn’t matter.

There is literally nothing in this article that backs up this point and I feel like this is 100% click bait.

Every single word of this opinion article is a fiery example of gatekeeping. It burns bright enough to be seen from orbit, and makes no effort to disguise its purpose.

It really is high time Claire stops posting opinions. EVERY SINGLE ONE - and I mean EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE - is some dipshit hot take like this one with barely any coherent thought put into it.

Agreed, this article is some petty-ass bitching

It is always amusing when someone is completely unable to look outside their own experiences in an attempt to be critical.

“Arguably, we’ve already had the “perfect” D&D movie thanks to Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Lord Of The Rings in the 2000s—which, if I’m being honest, do chart a bit too close to “action movie” for my taste”

I think you nailed exactly what I was going to type.
As soon as I see the word “appropriation”, I always get this sinking feeling that I am readying poorly researched article by a young intern who hasn’t traveled enough or seen enough of the world to understand the intersections between art and culture.

but not all depictions of non-white people have to automatically be political.

I liked when the kitty got a bag stuck on its head. 

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

Yet this site name is Kotaku. If there is a sense of irony about “appropriation” being ignored here... *shrugged*

he’s not gonna fuck you, dude

“Yawn, another (liberal) author for a video game website trying to take a hit at one of the most innovative men to ever live.”

Never takes long for a Musk bro to show up and post something cringy and hilarious.   

It’s super hard for me to trust Google when I’m buying digital content now, given how I lost all the albums I “bought” on Play Music, now inaccessible to me...

Unbelievable how anyone could have thought this would actually work in a country like the U.S. with our god awful internet infrastructure.

I mean, not really. It’s not doing them a disservice at all not to buy something because of the way it was made (see most product boycotts).