But he’s right. And it’s not because the industry has moved passed him like you suggest, it’s because with a glut of everything, it has added to diminish artistic value

He deered to kill the king's dare!

“see the overwhelmingly negative response from the press to Xenoblade 2's character designs, for instance).”

Me: “You know, games should really broaden the scope of sex and or sexuality within the medium. I’d like to see some bigger budget games really take a crack at this so that it might make the creation of that genre more appealing and acceptable” 

[Monkey’s Paw curls a finger]

unfortunately!

The college has finally stopped sending me their cursed alumni magazine, where I just read about people like, 11 years younger than me, doing stuff like “getting TV shows” and “being famous.” ;) :) :) 

Boston at a mediocre college that focused on “the performing arts”

“...the four years I spent in Boston at a mediocre college that focused on “the performing arts”..."

Guess no one thought to show Exodus Crybabies this:

Did HBO Max not do their research?

“Streamer makes true statement and then logs off.” could also be the title of this article, but it’s not as catchy

Nice to see this kind of idiot called out.

I meant Arch Warhammer, if it’s not clear.

Arch is really awful 

“cuck beta leftists.” I swear to god, you could not sound more desperate to seem cool as right-wing edgelords do when they string these words together.

Sounds to me like Arch Warhammer is a dick.

We can, but it’ll be -5 to your humanity point total because of the nano-injections.

fuuuuuuck inject this good-ass nuance directly into my veins

You’re right. But CD Projekt Red has been called out for some troubling stances on race and transmisogyny before. We can hope that this is some incisive and cutting cultural commentary, but asking these questions is valid given CDPR’s past mistakes. I like CDPR, and I want to love this game, and putting pressure on…

I think it’s a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ thing. Combined with the blatant stereotypes folks previewing the game have called out and their history of anti-trans messaging (purposeful or not) folks assumed the worse.

I think it gets complicated by the company’s context of botching so much of social media and some of the rumblings from the show floor about how this latest demo was handling race. That’s a problem with the genre as a whole, but it doesn’t sound like 2077 is approaching that sort of thing with the greatest sense of…