This guy sounds like a douche-nozzle, but I’m okay with this bill. Loot boxes are predatory, and regardless of how I feel about general microtransactions, we’d be better off with loot boxes (at least ones that require real money) being axed.

you are never going to get the stars you deserve by posting reasoned, informative, factual things like that. So here’s one and if I had burner accounts, you’d get more.

She’s not the only person to fracture a skull in MMA, it’s a thing that happens.

After a year or so on HRT, all competitive advantages disappear thanks to the persistent lack of testosterone, and some competitive disadvantages appear like reduced bone density. This is because cis women have SOME testosterone, and trans women will have basically NO testosterone, which makes it even harder to meet…

Are you bizarro me? I literally balked at the headline, then got through the first paragraph before just sitting there with a scrunched up =/ face because OOF... Did not know this stuff about Rousey and yeah, forget that noise.  Don’t glorify a hurtful jerk.

Yeah, I’d definitely rather focus on the fact that she shared, like, a thing implying that grieving parents’ pain was false then the fact that she’s not the best voice actor.

I didn’t write anything sooner because I thought that maybe I wouldn’t have to be the one writing this. As this piece was in the middle of being edited (I’ve been writing this over the course of two days) my peer Danielle Riendeau at Waypoint published an article about Rousey’s involvement, which is heartening.…

I still don’t see how PC storefront exclusivity is anti-consumer in any way shape or form. Console gamers don’t lose their shit this badly when PS4 or Xbox One has exclusivity and that requires an actual purchase. It’s fucking embarrassing really.

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

“isn’t it about time to take a more nuanced look..”

No. White washing is when studios cast white people. It has nothing to do with cosplay or halloween costumes. It is a winnable situation if you think first.

Hey: nah. Blackface is bad. Darkening your skin tone to alter your perceived race, even for cosplay, is bad.

Just...just wear the clothes. We know who it is, the costume’s good and fine on its own, there’s no need to Blackface it up. Jesus, why is this so hard?

It’s not like the negative reaction to Dragon Age 2 is super difficult to pin down. The game was force rushed and had one dungeon map.

Games as a service is fucking everything up. It seems to be forcing dev’s to straddle this line between making a complete and satisfying game and a monitizeable one that leaves out core elements that those of us who just want a good game consider essential. I’m over it. I suspect that DA4 will flop if they are forced…

With how much info you keep getting on Bioware all I can imagine is you with a really crappy fake beard sneaking into board meetings...

The more I read these articles, the more I really feel that the gaming industry needs heavy unionization. The human cost quotient for these products/games is never justified and is something I hope to see remedied in the coming years. 

Tons of EA defenders jumped on me when I blamed EA for the problems for Anthem, when it wasn’t explicit in the article that it was EA causing the issues.

Jim Sterling voice Liiiiiiiiiiiveee seeeeeerrviiicccessss!!! 

“...and it led to today’s Dragon Age 4, whose developers hope to carefully straddle the line between storytelling and the “live service” that EA has pushed so hard over the past few years.”