This predatory corporate garbage (and your right wing ideology that backs it) is why we have an entire generation of young people making about 1/3 less than their parents did at the same age.

The idea, he underscored, was “for the player to feel repulsed by some of the violence they are committing themselves.

Personally, I didn’t notice when I was originally playing.

I was pleasantly surprised by how tough the first one got towards the end. So good news.

You seem to be confusing politics with party/electoral politics.

Firefly was a word for word retelling of the Lost Cause myth. I mean, they were literally called a confederacy of planets. And according to Whedon himself, it was inspired by a book about the civil war. A book noted for its embrace of the Lost Cause myth.

Anyone can apply their outside viewpoint to a piece of art, a novel, a song, a movie or a book but that does not mean that the viewpoint you apply is what the creator intended.

South Park is libertarian, same as the men that created it. It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.

The Division is fascist. The Division 2 will be too. It’s hardwired into the game, and basically everything Clancy makes.

The problem with this, and why I trust them even less this time around, is that DC’s actual residents are mostly Black. Given how racist the first game was, there’s like, zero chance they don’t screw this one up even worse.

The first several hours of that game were just shooting “looters”, ie. young, hoodie wearing, AAVE speaking, Black men. It’s the most racist videogames I’ve ever played, and the only game I’ve ever gotten a refund for.

Unpopular opinion here, but has Bethesda ever made something that wasn’t a soulless husk of a game?

I am relaxed. And not really arguing.

I hate to say it, but it feels like a sad sort of progress that the dude actually owned what he did.

Stålenhag’s work is inspired by other artists in the same way. That’s how art works.

You might want to read up on Whedon.

Dude’s basically the game industry’s Whedon.

This pattern of abusing women characters for easy emotional content has repeated in game after game after game.

As Gita Jackson wrote about this week, games like The Sprawl have a little more of that push-and-pull dynamic between players and DMs built into their rules. D&D, by virtue of its age and its legacy, can still fully be run as a Dungeon Master squeezing their players through a tightly defined, and limited, story of…

I don’t think you understand what a pyramid scheme is... People investing in what you think is a game that won’t ever get finished does not make something a pyramid scheme.