Gundam has never been optimistic. It’s been focused on the environmental impact of technology from the very beginning.

I’m just the poor son of a man who owned a Zambian emerald mine, I started with nothing :( 

Been GMing for a very long time, been on Kotaku since 2007 I think. This article shouldn’t have made it to print with Point #1 or recommending “Play Dirty” by John Wick, which is an absolutely dogshit resource. 

buying this game just for scampuss 

FWIW, when asked, Word of God is that the fireflies would have been able to make a cure from Ellie’s death.

Genuine question: what does thinking you’re intelligent while being an absolute imbecile feel like? Do you wonder why you can’t be successful in life despite being “smart?”

In my experience, Singaporians tend to have more Westernized names, on average, than Hong Kongers, who tend to have bifurcated names. Even on the basis of character models, they all look white or close to it to me. 

“Neo-Hong Kong” but all three playable characters have white names, are arguably white. Hm....

The game was written by an Estonian that’s an ethnic minority, was born into the USSR, and is deeply critical of state-communism. 

I think the weird thing about gundam seed especially was, I think, the only time I’ve ever seen a male protagonist sexually assaulted by a female character who was clearly abusing him emotionally. Kira was not a willing participant in that and was basically non-consenting due to the fever. It was deeply uncomfortable,…

I agree with Gundam IBO but I thought the ending of IBO was extremely...creepy. I mean I guess it’s neat to know the child soldiers fuck, but it was...a little bit much.

I honestly super miss the sign off, sign on emails that would get posted here between the day staff and the night staff (bashcraft) in Japan.

That was me, because I didn’t find any of them that interesting other than Edelgard! But almost all the characters in the game are wonderful and varied.

This is literally the fucking premise of the game my guy.

I played a ton of CS 1.6 and CS:S at launch. The chat in mordhau is way, way worse than either of those games were. Those communities were just pretty homophobic, but the level of vileness found in Mordhau is overwhelming.

Dynasty Warriors is a series of games about the fall of the Han Empire, and uses extreme dramatizations of real life people like Cao Cao and Lü Bu and Dong Zhou. These were real Chinese humans.

It’s a White Wolf property. That they’ll probably trivialize actual struggles that humans are going through while also being deeply culturally appropriative is par for the course. IRL Human suffering is really just cool neat edgy set dressing. Almost all of the World of Darkness property lines are problematic,…

I mean, yeah, it’s chapo trap house. They’re all assholes and brogressives.

Rimworld

I don’t think the girl is a hallucination; both of the masked creeps are talking to her post-credits. It seems pretty clear she’s real to me.