The more recent Doom and Wolfenstein games are on point, though.

The mockery isn't totally ineffective, either. Anything that reinforces the perception that he is a ludicrous moron who is not respected by the citizenry makes the fight that much easier.

That's not as metal though.

Video games have really split in two directions over the past ten years or so. On the one hand, there are more vacuous retreads of existing games being made now than ever, and while there are some exceptions, the average big-budget major release is pure garbage. On the other hand, there's been an explosion of talented…

So, I'm obviously not going to watch these videos, but can anyone explain to me what the joke is supposed to be? I keep seeing these referred to as "prank" videos, but in my mind a prank is an elaborate practical joke where you trick someone in some way or another, or subject them to some kind of harmless mischief.…

Yes.

I think it's clear at this point that your comments aren't going to become anything more than just a buckshot spread of bullshit where it's impossible to address everything without spiraling out into a dozen pointless tangents. I'm going to drop this one, in accordance with the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: "The…

So people are not allowed to not like the game?

You keep reframing people's criticisms as demands, even as people tell you over and over that they aren't demanding anything. Let me remind you that this is all stuff that was posted in a friendly discussion on a website where people were sharing their reactions to the game. Nobody took any of the comments to be…

This has been a weekly feature for years.

You keep talking about who the game is and isn't "for." The game is for whoever buys the goddamn game. They sell it in America, translated into English. If they're soliciting American sales, they're inviting American criticism. But that's kind of irrelevant anyway, because obviously nothing is off-limits to critique…

"It's like an Asian man saying that Tyler Perry let them down because the only Asians in his movies are stereotypes."

I don't think anyone (other than you) is saying that anyone doesn't have the right to whatever type of expression they want. Nobody's saying they have to go back and remake the game—people had things they would have liked to see in P5, they found that the game contained the opposite, they liked the game less as a…

-the official motto of Gamergate

He was just asking the question!

If there are narratively important references to the character's sexuality outside the romance portions of the game (which are almost always essentially optional side quests), then I think your comment applies. In most games, however (and I can't speak for the Persona series), the only indication that your character…

But the comment was about wanting a Western developer to make a game like P5.

Ironically, your comment is much more of an outraged meltdown than the comments it's responding to. The comments about Persona 5 are just observations about the game and statements of opinion about those observations. You're the one whose sense of offense is misplaced and unreasonable.

That's an odd description of intersectionality. That term refers to recognizing how the struggles of disparate oppressed groups overlap and arise from common systems, with the end goal of consolidating them into a single comprehensive struggle. That's basically the opposite of "splintering the group."

Disgrace by David Luree? Damn, that's a strong lineup.