It's like half the fucking commentariat never even heard of the UK trial.

Interesting. See, I paid attention to the UK trial where it was established that Depp was a “wife-beater”.

Because it offends you?

Except that quote is a perfect Rorschach test.

Irregardless of what “team” won, there was clear incel brigading against Heard, and the Social Media revenue farmed out of giving these people bias confirming content is disgusting.

This one is interesting because while I have some suspicions about the veracity of Amber Heard’s claims, I absolutely still think that huge swathes of the public formed their opinions for conscious or subconscious sexist reasons. Really a whole mess and the decision to publicize the trial is a massive problem.

None of us where there is a strange thing to say about a publicly televised trial.

Thank you, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with how many dudebros saw this trial and thought “Surely this guy who had two judgements against him for beating his wife was the hero all along.”

I see how you might feel like this person didn’t read the article that you wrote, however, they do have a point, even if it’s not said fantastically here. It’s clear that diablo immortals has a chunk of okay gameplay, though this is exactly the point. They made an effort to provide decent gameplay for a couple tens of…

But the opinions don’t run counter to my own. Like the article you didn’t read says, I really don’t know what is the right take on this. And no one has cancelled me, so far as I know. I FEEL like I’m still here.

If you’re paying money, you’re paying not to push the button on the Skinner Box. You’re paying not to have the Diablo experience.

You only have to spend money if your only reason for playing the game is to see numbers get bigger.

A long time ago, I read a post (purporting to be) by a f2p game developer who was responding to the idea of “well _I_ never get suckered into paying, so who cares?”

I used to also say “well I’ve been able to enjoy it without spending money” on games such as Diablo Immortal. However the work of journalists such as Laura Kate Dale and James Stephanie Sterling, along with reading many horror stories over the years, has convinced me that there’s a very real human cost to monetization…

Some of these comments show exactly what’s wrong with this type of predatory design. People justify spending money on it because the game “earned” it in some way. But as they play more and more, the game will continue to ask for more and more, and eventually they’ve spent more than they would’ve been willing to pay…

It’s not afraid of an ascendant tech powerhouse Japan ruining America, it’s afraid of an ascendant Japan ruining Japan.

I assume you dont play red dead online, because there is sooo much more that can be added to the game without even scratching the surface of what is possible, all without using any cheap gta gimmicks and staying true to the time setting of red dead. For one, properties, that would be massive. An obvious second would…

Why is GTA V online so successful while RDR 2 Online is a total flop? It’s the same company, the same graphics engine, the same basic game design so why the difference? It’s the stuff you can acquire, that’s the difference. In GTA V you can get a sweet pad, attack helicopters, luxury yachts, super cars and even a…

by quantifying diversity like this, you actually erase a ton of diversity by collapsing the lived experiences of any given group into a handful of data points. 

By that logic, we can’t compile statistics on hate crimes because quantifying “facets of peoples’ lives” is bad. And it’s a for-profit business, everything they do is for profit. Are all the games with white characters exploiting white people for profit?