I mean, I think more celebrities should do precisely that. But let’s not get it twisted: if Streissand had declined to talk about the subject, she’d have caught shit for that, too. Let’s not pretend that we really want, generally speaking, for celebrities to stay out of shit. What we really want is for them to echo…

“It’s a combination of feelings. I feel bad for the children. I feel bad for him. I blame, I guess, the parents, who would allow their children to sleep with him.”

Yeah, and the thing is, players are so used to seamless control that any amount of stuttering in situations where it shouldn’t reasonably appear is going to generate tons of criticism. I mean, I can’t imagine the battle royale crowd, which has basically turned twitch gaming mainstream, is going to want to deal with…

The problem I have with Stadia is that it seems to be, quite literally, another console. You know, rather than just a PC-based (or whatever) streaming solution. So we’re still going to effectively see the same forces that cause fragmentation via exclusivity, and so on. Developers have to be swayed to take the dive and…

Why do you think I’m criticizing his position?

You are stretching so damned far just to establish the patently absurd idea that police unions unilaterally determine whether their shittiest excesses will be allowed or not. All they can do, like any other union, is make a proposal and agitate for it. If politicians rubber-stamp that shit, it’s on the politicians.…

And we can elect new politicians in their place if we are unhappy about them doing that.

We have less unions than we used to because managers tend to respect their employees more or else the number of unions would have increased.

Police Unions are great example (so thank you for mentioning them) of what happens when the opposite scenario is true — unions with too much power. The right balance (and has never been achieved) is where both parties are on equal terms.

Giving [insert specific benefit here] to everyone is always a better idea than just giving it to some people. But if UBI means you lose access to a host of other benefits, nah, they can take that shit and flush it as far as I’m concerned. Sorry, but this can’t just be about shifting how the value of current benefits…

Meanwhile your child got an elective surgery because he felt like his genitals made him an outcast. I’m not saying that’s you fucking up as a parent, but if you don’t reflect upon that and realize how absurd and cruel it is that’s pretty lame.

Why. WHY.

Sanders is ... staffing up. That’s kind of what people do at the beginning of a primary season. Are you seriously going to sit here and shit on Sanders for hiring some women of color to join his campaign? Oh wait, they’re not the right ones (centrist, neoliberal pieces of shit), so they’re invalid. He’d be totally…

The problem is that it’s thirsty, reeks of an attempt to offset obvious critiques with only a symbolic gesture, and is completely and utterly presumptuous (you pick a VP after you win the nomination, not beforehand). He’s far more damned if he does.

It’s never been about “propping up” anybody. Steam promotes games that become popular, but the games by and large speak for themselves. Steam has never really been about picking winners. That’s 100% what Epic is about, and my entire point is that some good games that might have otherwise surprised the world will be…

While I largely agree with Miyazaki on this isolated point, Japan is not without its own extensive colonial history, and it also has its own well-documented problems with accepting accountability for past wrongs.

The Epic Storefront is bloatware, though. Guess they’re technically telling the truth by not “selling” it to us, though.

The latter. Grayson can’t help but feel constantly scandalized by the abstract possibility that someone might buy an asset flip or shitty “anime game” by accident on Steam, even if this has never actually happened to a real person before.

This is precisely it. Grayson’s getting clicks on every end of “the story.” If Steam is too restrictive, this is bad for indies, and he just can’t see why anybody would want to try and release a game on the platform! If it opens the flood gates, oh my God, you might see a dreaded “anime game” or three while trying to…

You realize that you don’t have to buy “offensive trash,” right?