It’s so glaringly obvious that most of you do not know anything about the BJD or ABJD community and the way FFXIV fans have responded makes me feel...weird. You’d think that people could see the artistry and want to learn more about the hobby but the negativity about it is crushing

So... just gonna be blunt... the reason the internet likes Dimistrescu is she’s an attractive older woman who trips people’s size difference fetishes.

We could expose players to iterative design in video games again, but try it a little differently this time.

Agreed. The whole idea of “prestige” narrative in all forms of entertainment is too often used as an excuse for labor abuses. I was in the class of interns who sued WB for their Black Swan abuses and got the industry to start paying interns who do work outside the scope of education. The industry LOVES unpaid interns…

I still can’t believe that idiots on the internet thought it was a good idea to try and make people feel bad about getting in their feelings about a line of dialogue about grief. Like, I dunno if you didn’t notice, but there is, shall we say an unusually high number of people on the planet who are grieving right now.…

Lilly’s reason for not doing it, and Lana’s reason for doing it, can each only be as valid as the other.

Thank you for this. I’d been hemming and hawing about whether to buy Twelve Minutes given all the reviews dancing around the edges of the fucked shit in this game, so I’m glad somebody finally just laid out the garbage for me.

“Kitty!"

Does it have to be spoken?

that’s a completely fair ask

It’s lazy, ego-driven behavior rife with hella-convenient beliefs that tell them they don’t have to learn anything; they are already right, and you are wrong and scum.

Bingo! It’s the same with all media now. By acting like a semi-decent person, you open yourself to constant scrutiny and scolding. It’s actually pretty sickening. Show that you actually care, and people will use it to destroy you.

The key word is “may”, which suggests the traumatic and disturbing content isn’t always going to happen. As the article says, it appears to be optional. When in reality, it is unavoidable. Remove that word and the in-game content warning is sufficient.

If they removed the “may” and just flat out said it includes those things, it’d be much, much, much clearer.

I feel for both the character designers and Matt Mercer (McCree’s voice actor and all-round awesome human being). None of them have done anything wrong but now they’re all associated with a character everyone considers ‘tainted’. I know Matt has commented on the whole Blizzard harassment thing in support of the…

What’s that, Lassie? Little TiMi fell into a “well, actually”?

YES! I loved Wipeout back in the PS1 days for the aesthetic and the music, but never played any one of them for more than a few hours because I was garbage at the actual racing. But playing in cockpit mode with the headset took me from rage quitting to actually completing full circuits and re-trying races I failed and…

It’s amazing. And yes, I am trash without the headset. It’s wild how much it helps, but you really do see the turns coming a little bit quicker it seems. That and Astro were well worth the price of admission for me. Truly unique gaming experiences.

Kaplan fucked off right before this blew up. We probably shouldn’t trust him either.

Apologies, then- given the circumstances, it doesn’t hurt to be sure.