See, this is why you always need to find and destroy the lich’s phylactery - if you don’t, they just come back later on.

My argument is that the “real world impacts of turning a blind eye to bigotry” in this case are nil, because it’s not turning a blind eye to bigotry, it’s buying a video game that she had no involvement in making. Either we’re arguing that we’re buying a bad thing in itself, which is bad, or we’re arguing that the…

What’s the right move is a big question with a lot of different answers depending on how you interface with the world and social justice more broadly. You could look into what your local city councils and school boards are doing to terrorize trans people and take action against it. You could donate to trans advocacy…

You know, I almost made this same shift myself, because it seems pretty unavoidable (and perhaps understandable) that people read this stance as an insufficient distaste for transphobia rather than an actual first principle. I didn’t, because that would just lead to people saying I don’t care about antisemitism and…

I don’t even necessarily disagree that not buying Harry Potter stuff is a relatively easy win in terms of the incredibly narrow wins of ethical consumption. I certainly don’t begrudge anyone who personally does not want to spend money on it. I don’t want to spend money on it.

What I take issue with is the implication…

Tell your trans friends that you want to play a game so much that their agency is secondary to you.

That’s not what whataboutism is you fucking clown. Whataboutism is bringing up an unrelated point to try to deflect from the point at hand. This is demonstrating the shakiness of the position that we are discussing by applying it’s logic to a comparable situation. If we wanna throw words-to-shut-down-without-engaging…

Well, if consuming anything Harry Potter means you’re more than ok with transphobia and bigotry, then by you commenting on this website, you are more than ok with extractive capitalism that exploits workers and undermines the cause of labor as a whole. You’re just gonna need to come to terms with that, I guess.

I think there’s a middle ground between “militantly telling other people what to do” and “total nihilism because nothing you do matters”.

The whole “if you give your money to someone you are responsible for their views” thing is just... ridiculously naive. If anyone believes that, you shouldn’t be on this website, because The Herb and crew still reap any rewards from this site’s success. It’s a sad fact of the world that 90% of all money you spend is,…

Streets of Rage, technically speaking, is a Police Simulator, albeit not a very realistic one, as the last time I checked, “Flaming Dragon Uppercuts” was not one of the things you learn at Police School

Just my two cents

Well done FTC. Now THAT is a proper fine.

If the FTC doesn’t go after Roblox next... Roblox not only has tons of games trying to trick players into making purchases, but their target demographic is mainly children.

Found N's burner account.

and not others, why?

You’ve done it, Ash, you achieved the Shonen protagonist’s dream of becoming the best, after 25 years.

No its not a good thing. Assembly line work is not comparable to creative work. Given a choice to do anything they wanted then somewhere close to zero people would choose to do assembly line tasks. Humans actually enjoy making art and being creative.

The community across Blizzard games is still toxic af, but Metzen can only be good for the IP(s). Won’t pull me back in - that ship has sailed - but I hope he’ll rekindle some of that old joy, and does not burn out again.

Donut County didn’t work?! It was one of the few games that my wife actually played from start to finish, and a few other family members as well. It works because it’s simple and fun. If the puzzles were actually head scratchers it would have lost it’s simple, light, breezy appeal in my opinion.

“Imagine Undertale without the nihilism."