“This only affects people who aren’t me so I’m going to take time to make sure everyone knows it”

Good luck with your nudist life and air-only diet.

Do you buy every game that comes out? No? How dare you put those poor devs out of work? Think of their families!

“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” is not a legit response to explicitly and loudly unethical sources of entertainment.

If a massive brand or creator has closely and publicly linked their identity to bigotry, then yes, I will judge people who choose to support that. But my judgment is hardly going to be a deciding factor to any but people who actually know me. You can continue to be an arse wherever you like, content in the knowledge…

See, people should just be honest about their bigotry and hold up a nice big warning sign for others. I prefer honesty to this crypto-fash defense squad and ‘what about the poor game devs’

I don’t buy media from people who I know are currently openly racist, either. You know, like JK Rowling. This isn’t rewriting history, this is things she is, actively, right now.

You’re so right! Better eat at chic-fil-a every day so you can support those poor workers there!

Bye, Felicia.

“Support the devs” is such an empty argument. Do you buy every game that comes out? Why not? How dare you put those devs out of work? Don’t you know they have families to feed?

It’s like eating at chic-fil-a. If you choose to go there when it’s extremely well-known what they support, that will color my judgment of you. You don’t have to care about me, of course, but do you have any queer friends at all? Maybe a closeted trans friend you don’t know about who will now feel unsafe near you?

If you had a trans friend, (somehow I sincerely doubt this is the case, but bear with me), I would say that they would be well within their rights to decide to stay away from you if you prioritized playing fashy wizard sim over showing even the slightest bit of support for their concerns.

It’s just like eating at chic-fil-a because your need for that very specific type of chicken sandwich outweighs any care that their profits go to anti-LGBT political contributions. It means, quite simply, at best, that you don’t care about those hurt.

Google’s getting better at sorting topical results I guess. Although I’ve run into a lot of issues personally with trying to find things for Outward searching “Outward [X]” and had to rephrase “Outward Game [X]” (complicated by two major versions of the game, but that’s less the search engine’s fault). Have had the…

Always liked the description of the US as “50 countries in a trenchcoat so they can sit at the big boys’ table”

Republic, noun, “a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives”

Or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. All three descriptors in the label are false.

I just want games that when I search for them will actually come up as a primary result. “Elden Ring” or “Choo Choo Charles” qualify. “High on Life” or “Outward” do not. Also “GTFO” “Ready or Not” “Grounded” etc.

It’s a very old ring

Independent artists being a “well-funded and organized lobby” is the most absurd thing I’ve heard this month, if not this year. If I knew nothing else about what was going on, that statement would tell me how full of bovine excrement these people are.