A lot of the people who are outraged by this also probably have no problem with dressing up in Stormtrooper armor to play being a space fascist.

Claude Frollo is known for calling a Romani character a racial slur and claiming that her people are “not capable of real love.”

I’m kind of in awe that you went through with posting this, and more so that nobody stopped you. It’s... not exactly a good look, in my opinion.

This whole article feels like an assignment to “drive interaction” which will then be measured by responses. So... good luck, I guess? I hope the blonde ding dongs that are driving the former GMG into the earth are paying you well enough to put up with this shit.

Would climbing Mt Everest feel the same if it had an escalator all the way to the top?

Saying “no games should have an easy mode” is gatekeeping. Saying “it’s fine this game doesn’t have an easy mode” isn’t. Look, I’m of the opinion that it’s fine that From games don’t have a difficulty selector, because I think we need to let creators be free to do what they want (as long as it’s not actively harmful -…

So every game ever made should have the Bayonetta style automatic mode, and thinking anything else is gatekeeping?
Imagine if Tetris had a difficulty level that was just “hold down A and you will never lose”. What a great game that would make.

If you think it’s gatekeeping to not want that, I guess we’re all gatekeepers.

And then 160 501 hundred words from a very angry person who never played a FromSoft game and thus never noticed there are difficulty options, they’re just not in a slider menu.

It’s not gatekeeping to say “I would prefer an experience custom built by the game’s director.” It is gatekeeping to say “Developers who had difficulty settings are making a mistake.”

There’s a huge gulf between “I like X” and “people who don’t like X aren’t real gamers”

They literally said the word “Personally”,…

I get some people feel having a difficulty choice is to their liking. But do keep in mind, it’s a matter of personal preference. We all played games with and without difficulty option, and we can’t say it’s better with/without that option, and all games should / shouldn’t have the option, because the option itself…

I really hope they redesign Sam Wilson’s Cap suit because this one looks like absolute dogshit.

Here’s the problem:
The one who vilified Amber Heard is Amber Heard.

I don’t know about you, but I watched the trial; her facial expression, tone, diction, choice of words. The evasive behavior really stood out. She came off as a liar, again and again. Not just me, but across the board save for one or two writers at…

Lying to the jury, getting caught photoshopping iphone photos, being heard on tape gaslighting depp saying no one will believe him, cops not arresting depp or giving heard domestic violence because in the female cops estimation - heard was faking, lying about donating money, lying about taking a dump in a bed, lying…

>saying it “proves” she’s lying

No... The evidence proved she was lying. It was clearly not “a single mistake” either, as was highlighted in the trial, which you admit you stayed away from. There were multiple, MULTIPLE examples. Also, she shit the bed. Literally and figuratively. Blargh.

You can be both against Amber…

if imperfect = proven liar, I’m with you. Trump was an imperfect president. Heard was an imperfect defendant. Don’t sugar coat it. She shouldn’t have lied multiple times in the jury’s face. She should have owned up, when she did something (on tape) that looked awful.

I understand how it may feel for victims of domestic abuse to watch this defamation trial and see how it ended. However, to equate the results of this particular trial with erasing the progress that has since been made from Gamergate and the Me Too movement is absurd.

Anyway, reading through the article all I could remember was that one time a few years ago where a game journalist spent like a solid half hour trying to get through Cuphead’s tutorial because he couldn’t figure out how to jump good (despite there being a tutorial on the wall behind his character)

kotaku villainizes everyone except themselves.

I watched Clone Wars, but didn’t remember the character. Thought it was cool that people recognized him when I read articles the next day. Sneering cynicism has been the language of critics since being a critic was invented. The internet only reinforces it.

I disagree.