33 is an extremely young age to go and it’s terrifying how relentless cancer is. Everyone should be regularly and frequently checked for any signs or symptoms of cancer.

Making fun of gender pronouns is very transphobic absolutely regardless of who it’s directed at and it’s a big part of the reason many people in the queer community have felt excluded by the gaming community. While cancer is a horrible disease and 33 is way too young to go, and whether or not you think digging up…

The idea is that, for many schools of thought, private property as in land or mass resource ownership is unethical and/or outdated, and the concept of “ownership” itself in this sense should be critiqued. Following from this line of thought, that isn’t to say that you shouldn’t “own” things in the sense of having…

I really miss the 90's JRPG-flavoured anime incarnation of Thundercats from 2011.

Systemic evil is with us every minute of every day; some just benefit from it moreso than others. This is just honesty in its most cynical flavour.

As I pointed out in my follow-up, JuniperAndSage dismissed my colonizer argument after the first sentence alone, proving they have no intention of engaging their opponent honestly, even though it was clear from the get go what I was getting at. But whatever, it’s easier to just dismiss the dissenting opinion as a…

“Uncharted, COD Modern Warfare, GTAIV, Batman Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2"

“Uh, there is no colony (thanks to Rose/Pink Diamond)...”

It’s as if you missed the rest of the paragraph. You don’t have to have a colony to be a colonizer; that is, to have a colonial mentality or the privilege to appropriate a less powerful culture and claim it as your own. This is why I referenced how Avatar’s…

Rose never stopped being a colonizer. She appropriated the culture and even the bodies of another people that were considered “less advanced” because she found them cool or interesting in a way not unlike how Jake Sully became one of the Na’vi; in other words, there’s a whole can of white saviourist, colonialist, and…

Rose went from a tragic hero defined by her empathy to a monstrous villain who orchestrated thousands of years of conflict and emotionally manipulated and betrayed every person ever close to her due to her own selfish desire to be right in a little under a minute. Portrayed as a young/childlike diamond, she only…

This “60 fps or bust” maxim that Certified Gamers™ keep parroting has always seemed frankly ridiculous and close-minded to me. Yes, for typical competitive and mechanical purposes, 60 FPS is preferable. But there are aesthetic benefits to utilizing variable framerates depending on the purpose: movies for example…

It isn't just Steven Universe. Nerd culture can be incredibly toxic, immature, and disgusting.

The reason this doesn’t make me angry is that a lot of this is perfectly possible to build upon the base game Niantic released; there isn’t anything in the game that would contradict or render impossible the mechanics and features implied in the trailer. I think we’re seeing a work-in-progress unfold (as is typical…

That first guy is a massive creep. No, she does not (and should not) adhere to your own standards of “morality,” and it is not your position to slut-shame her for not doing so. Not only that, but it is hypocritical and downright despicable to lust after her and feel such jealousy for her and then have the gall to…

It’s obvious that this game is the conclusion/final chapter of the Wind Waker/Adult Link timeline. I mean, come on, folks.

Demon’s Souls. Make it a kind of dark fantasy road movie, where it follows the Slayer of Demons and Ostrava of Boletaria as they travel through the run-down and chaotic Boletarian Capital City towards its heart. There would be a framing device in that along the way, the Slayer of Demons would recount previous…

This was well-foreshadowed throughout the show. Also, folks really need to watch the inside the episode featurettes before they point fingers. A good number of the not (yet) in the books scenes readers tend to complain about (ie. Shireen’s death, which was also foreshadowed throughout the show as clearly as Stannis’s…

You can’t compare a multi-player online shooter with a few nebulous cutscenes as narrative to a slower, turn-based game obviously trying to evoke a movie-like feel. Obviously Destiny is a mechanics-driven game; people mainly play it because they get to shoot shit up and gather loot, so of course it would be ridiculous…

60 FPS is generally better for the technical and mechanical side of games, so experiences that require quick and decisive input (i.e. shooters, action games, etc.) or games that intend to fully immerse the player in the environment and play with the human brain’s perception of reality (i.e. VR, where 90 FPS is the…

And it isn’t even that those two individuals’ opinions are incompatible. You can still appreciate and even love the film while acknowledging that it’s derived from a problematic book written by a racist imperialist.

It seems as though most of the forum lurkers here don’t seem quite capable of nuanced criticism of a…