Or, they did it for just Japanese speakers to enjoy. Not everything is about trolling. 

If what you’re saying is true, there’s no reason he couldn’t have written it in the column. He didn’t, so yeah, odds are that he’s a racist twit.

“Is your Inquisitor a waifish elf lady? Then by all means, get her nice and hammered by the enormous demon-looking guy!”

Iron Bull rant time! I took that guy everywhere, including dragon hunting and drinking. I thought I exhausted my quest options with him, but for some reason I never got his companion quest. So I get to the Trespasser DLC and have the charming scene of distracting him while his still-alive Chargers squad drag his gift…

Face it, Clarkson is an idiot who blatantly went racing around Argentina with a license plate specifically designed to be offensive to the Argentinian people...then acted like a complete innocent when the local populace rose up and forced him out of the country. I stopped watching Top Gear after that, it was no longer…

A rare example of Barsanti using his powers of scold for good. Clarkson is such a massive unrepentant shitstain, and has been for an extremely long time. His career should have been over after the Top Gear firing - which, to issue a slight correction, wasn’t a fight, he literally just punched the guy. The only reason…

Other countries have had generally more oversight than American ones. They’ve levied many fines at Google for monopolistic behavior, for example, and forced Facebook to sell giphy. It’s America that’s changed recently, having realized their mistake in letting Facebook acquire Snap and Instagram.

Oh yeah its pretty bleak, especially sitting over here in the US going “I wish our side of things was even doing that much” and then realizing our laws are even further behind even if regulators were wanting to do more.

Part of it is that most major mergers were US-only. Not much the UK or EU regulators can do about that.

You know that buying the competition isn’t the issue right? There’s nothing “wrong” (at least if you believe in a capitalist system which I don’t but the laws do) about buying other companies. There is however something wrong about consolidating an industry to the point that competition doesn’t fulfil its purpose.

...it’s a little strange to me why this merger has gotten so much scrutiny while others haven’t.

That’s some level-A strawman reasoning right there. Of course people gave a crap about developers getting bought out, even if you never noticed. EA in particular since they had such a long string of failed acquisitions in their past history, but Activision hasn’t been without its critics either for sure. Not least…

Which Sony merger has materially hurt Xbox? None, right? Not much of what Sony has bought has been available on Xbox. The vast majority of the studios that Sony has bought were making titles exclusively for the Playstation, usually for more than a decade, so Xbox lost nothing. And the few studios that Sony did buy…

I both agree and disagree on the argument that DAO didn’t take creative risks. It did, huge ones, but the kind that don’t really feel like that anymore as they were more about the aesthetics and presentation. David Gaider, the lead writer, has discussed later how they were really uncertain about how the game would be…

I’m not arguing against your first point because I agree, but:

For what it’s worth, Forspoken’s script isn’t that bad. Within the context of the game I found Frey’s character fairly well written. At the beginning of the game her initial wonder at the world and the cringy dialogue that accompanies said wonder is needed to show contrast when she realizes how messed up the…

That’s why those studios are probably better off now that they aren’t owned by Square Enix any more.

Deus Ex Mankind Divided comes to mind... Not sure why they own Western studios in the first place with the sort of active disdain they have for letting them finish the games they work on.

I finished this last night, and I’ve decided that Forspoken is a pretty great game sabotaged by tons of bad decisions. The core is great and I love playing it, but they made a lot of odd choices that are just bizarre, and it felt like they collapsed the back half of the game into 2 hours and had to cram a bunch of…

That said, you would think High Speed Isekai InFamous/Prototype would’ve been more popular.