Or you could say that Pelican Town, much like The Wicker Man’s Summerisle or the village in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, is a bucolic small town that hides plenty of dark secrets.

Nothing. The MLK chorus follows a line about colors, and rainbows, about the world being more than just black and white, about having faith in the world, etc. The creator is AFAIK queer. The cast is super diverse. It’s music is from the Steven Universe folks. The game is leaning pretty hard into diversity, and…

It’s fantasy in the Harry Potter sense, not the Tolkien sense, ie. it’s the real world, specifically Canada, with magic underneath/alongside.

You might want to look a bit closer at the origins of libertarianism in America. Not the silly academic thought experiments, but the real-world stuff. The Libertarian Party is founded in the early 1970s, and is founded by people who spent the previous decade fighting against desegregation and the civil rights…

This isn’t confined to Mercy, or to one Mercy ability. I mean, the nerf is, but the complaints that led to this nerf are more general. I can guarantee you that if Mercy is nerfed to the point that another healer/support takes over the top spot, that character will be faced with the same criticisms Mercy has.

I’ve played healers online in MMOs, RPGs, shooters, MOBAs, etc. for going on 20 years. Always impotent little rage monkeys screaming and crying for nerfs cause their big old sword/gun/penis’s work is being undone by the “healbitch”.

This has never really been about Mercy. It continues to be about violence and masculinity and men who feel emasculated when the violence they do is undone.

...it’s not hard to find developers willing to complain about Frostbite...

She wasn’t born there, wasn’t raised there. She basically had an aunt from Potomac (yeah...) that she crashed with a few times as an adult. If you think that’s gonna be good enough for the Black voters of Baltimore (which again, is where essentially all the Dem primary votes are located), you’re dreaming.

Pretty sure the Black folks in Baltimore (which is where she’ll be competing for votes) know plenty about imperialism and colonialism and racism and how shitty this country is. Also know that having some white girl from Nebraska show up asking for votes without ever being part of the community is closely related to…

If you’re into Hip-Hop and/or rhythm games, Floor Kids is amazing. It’s a breakdancing rhythm game. Basically you do fighting game style moves , in time with the music, racking up points as you dance. The points unlock more dancers, more moves, more venues to dance at. It’s very good. Had a blast playing with my kids…

Maryland is one of the Blackest states in the country, with a Democratic party that is almost entirely Black. There is no way in hell Manning has the cultural and political understanding to run there without falling on her face. Also, there is a long history of comments about Obama from her and her supporters that…

Uh, Civ VI was released with pretty much everything everyone was expecting, and all the systems V had. That was a major selling point this time- that it wasn’t being released with big systems from previous games missing.

Nothing says Punk like a bunch of cops and soldiers.

AAA gaming (outside of Nintendo and maybe Blizzard) is broken and bullshit. Stop supporting it. Especially publishers like EA that have repeatedly pushed garbage systems into their games.

If anyone works hard in America, they can succeed. Yes there can be challenges for everyone in that. But in America, 99% of people have an equal chance given the same amount of effort.

His first title, out later this week, is the result of a partnership with Pewdiepie, the YouTuber racist motherfucker who helped turn Goat Simulator into such a big deal in the first place.

You should rent this. Because watching it a second time is pretty much out of the question for most people.

You should rent this. Because watching it a second time is pretty much out of the question for most people.

There was a thing on Gamasutra (I think) a while ago about eye-tracking research and minimaps. People spend an inordinate amount of time staring at them instead of the game world, to the point where they actually reduce player’s ability to tell where they are in the ‘real’ game world. Essentially, minimaps reduce…

So only cheap tech made with the poor in mind should succeed? I’m not sure I follow.