Apparently Ashley (the author) has never been to Japan.

“Games like FFVII recontextualized the skirt as feminine clothing item not only for women to wear, but to be sexualized in.”

This strikes me as an odd blanket statement. Skirts have been sexualized for far longer than their appearance in videogames, and their usage in games is reflective of their usage in reality…

very that ! i was growing so annoyed when the character kept being like “i can’t do that right now” whenever i tried executing a skill. iirc there is a setting in the game that lets you turn off certain dialogue options to make the protagonist a little less loquacious but yeah the incessant talking could become grating

(If this ends up being some bullshit gacha game I will still enjoy watching all the cutscenes on YT 100x more than most games I will actually play this year)

Failing to properly legislate them DEFINITELY was a mistake.

Maybe creating AI tools like this was a fucking mistake.

Agreed. Denji’s a feral, horny little shit, but he’s also a victim of grooming, mental and borderline sexual assault himself for most of the series, on top of growing up abused, alone and homeless. He’s overall deeply empathetic (if anti-social) and doesn’t really have the deep sense of “woe is me”, entitlement and…

Max Payne was one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had.

Fyi, people assume that martinet (a professional voice actor) is incapable of dialing his voice back to meet the needs of the project. Mickey and Goofy have grating voices in their short clips, but have you noticed how their voice actors handle their voices in movies differently? If you've seen A Goofy Movie, that's a…

From the people who make their own employees’ lives a living hell!

This feels right on par for Geoff. No one outshines him or his Award Show. Only except for Hideo Kojima. With whom he fantasizes being best friends with.

It’s completely generic, which really is all it needs to be.

Well good luck on the crunch devs :\

Still shouldn’t be authorized. Authorizing crunch creates a culture in which it is unofficially encouraged and there’s a lot of pressure on people to participate. Crunch should not exist, period. The video game industry is not an industry that has super sudden requirements that have horrible consequences if not met,…

Intellectual Property—because fair use, as a concept, doesn’t really exist in Japan.

Not quite the same topic, but same energy:

Personally, I’m happy when domestic violence victims are given money and resources to ensure a full and satisfying life away from their abuser, and I’m glad someone was able to do that for Siragusa. Even though Siragusa is already, by her own admission, making millions a year

Ooooh, fuck yeah that shit was soooo cool.

Araki likes to do a lot of random stuff with his villains, sometimes they land really well and sometimes they are forgettable. Its kind of the nature of the show.

When I had my partner watch part 3 for the first time, long after it had aired, and it got to the “Dio time-stop interruption” opening, she had to take a lap around the house due to hype.