I feel for them, I really do, because I know Jez has been hamstrung and they’ve lost a lot of institutional memory with the cascade of departures. But I didn’t expect the coverage to be this sort of aggressive in its bad takes.

It is a very American-centered approach, too. Actual Europeans are paying close attention to this because it is next door and a lot of them have legitimate fears that they will be next. It will be interesting to see how narratives shift as the Russian government runs out of money to pay its trolls.

The world has not been this close to a full-scale war with multinational involvement of nuclear powers since the height of the Cold War. For better or worse, that was not the case with Afghanistan or Iraq or Somalia or the Balkans, etc.

??? Nah, it you. “EmIsMe making a comment on the internet isn’t going to cause WWIII.” Obviously ONE comment isn’t going to cause WWIII, but when you take everyone’s individual comments, i.e. public opinion, it certainly does matter. 

Jesus Jezebel’s coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been dreadful. I hardly know where to start.

Microsoft is widely known in the industry for being bureaucratic to work at, but fair and honest with its employees.

That’s exactly what people working in “mergers and acquisitions” do. It’s not a job where you just sit around in an office all day and then draw a paycheck. They read the news, use bloomberg terminals with access to exclusive datastreams, read newly posted legal documents (FCC filings, lawsuits, judgements, etc) even…

my take is that it’s a good thing— you can view it as scavenging and see M$ as vultures if you want, that’s a fine take.

But I’ve enjoyed Blizzard’s work for years, and that’s not Bobby’s work, that’s the work of the grunts in the trenches, he’s probably been more of an obstacle to their work than an asset. I enjoy the…

Seems like some questionable logic there. MS didn’t have anything to do with that. And not purchasing AB doesn’t change anything on the AB end on terms of what has already transpired.

My man, Act/Blizz has had issues for YEARS before this. And Bobby is known for not giving a shit as long as games ship and the shareholders make money.

At this point I think its clear that Cyberpunk is being held to different expectations than any other game, and it’s treated unfairly in some aspects. Of course it’s an RPG good lord. Many other games with far less are called RPG’s or at least Action RPG’s. But there is comments that still talk about it not having…

Most RPGs don’t have emergent gameplay. They’re filled with skill checks and solutions specifically designed by the developers. It sounds more like you’re describing an immersive sim. CP certainly isn’t as open-ended as the original Deus Ex but it provides enough player agency to warrant RPG classification, especially…

If Assassin’s Creed, God of War, Horizon, Witcher, Diablo, Final Fantasy and WoW can all be called RPGs, then Cyberpunk can absolutely be called one too. Personally, I think the term has become so broad as to be basically useless these days.

It never really was. The game has highly sexualized ads, some that clearly feature trans models. It’s not anti-trans it’s corporate dystopia exploiting everyone’s bodies.

“It’s not solely a problem with Horizon Forbidden West, nor is it a problem limited to video games. You see it across popular genre fiction these days, as everything from Star Wars to the Marvel Cinematic Universe doubles down on plot over people, going so far as to fill in backstories for enigmatic characters who…

I”m not denying there’s a major racism problem in policing in America.

This has nothing to do with gun control. The police are perfectly capable of not shooting everyone that moves in a house when the perceive the people in it as human. The problem is there are large swaths of us who they do not perceive as human.

Unions are a good thing. Police unions are not.

The studios are worth more if the IPs remain multi platform. The incentive for exclusives driving console purchases is somewhat irrelevant.

“The end game is about giving players the opportunity to resell their items once they’re finished with them or they’re finished playing the game itself.”