“It’s worth noting that Team Fortress 2 is 15 years old.”

Compounded by the fact that the law is still pretty toothless against speech that is explicitly hate, unless accompanied by an actual crime, at which point it is often to late.

And yet people will continually insist that the US doesn’t have a gun problem...

Nah, the fact is that people who choose to emulate and pirate games were most likely never going to buy the games or systems. There have been numerous studies that have backed that up for the most part.

VR designers were so pre-occupied with if they could, they never stopped to ask if they should

I’m not disagreeing with you here, but the prior history of the dudes that got shot really doesn’t have any bearing on what happened that night.

Starred for the word “cryptosimp”.

Abby let her anger and desire for revenge go. Ellie didn’t. It’s what made Ellie’s story all the more tragic. Abby gave up on revenge in the end and let Ellie live. Abby was able to find something else to live for with Lev. Ellie had months of a life with Dinah and the baby. Ellie, though, couldn’t give up on her…

I fucking loved The Last of us Part 2, it’s just really really really tragic. It’s the most tragic story I’ve ever experienced in a video game. It is by design meant to make you feel shittier after each play session. But I wrote a lot of crit about it and it stayed in my mind to make up for it.

seems like it's everybody else's problem with the game for having the mean buff lady kill off their fave and not getting to kill her back

I too rage when I have to kill Kefka and can’t just build a little farm and retire there in FFVI.

They use the term “leftist” to mean “anyone to the left of Mussolini,” while “censorship” means “any reactionary having any limits or accountability, ever.” They demand the right to harass, libel, and threaten without consequences; they also want to insist that techbro corporatism is the leftmost imaginable position.

Oh just shut the fuck up. Twitter is crawling with conservatives and all of their awful hot takes, you pearl clutching, whiny dipshit. You aren’t a victim for having to operate within the terms set forth by a private company, grow up.

What beliefs, exactly

Yeah... *some* devs are staying, but as a queer woman who had issues with harassment and safety BEFORE Musk rips out Twitter Safety in the name of “free speech,” I am deleting my account and never coming back. It’s not worth staying if I have to go private all the time, and I’m not handing over more personal…

“The last thing I want, as a mom, is for my past to be brought up twenty years later. ”

Oh boy, Metroid Fusion and Minish Cap? Like I’ve been able to play on the Wii U for 8 years? Not excited.

Because a lot of games journalism is dependent on access so keeping relationships with companies is the most important thing and that usually means softball interviews.

The dude’s always been a magician at heart, since jump street, and he’s *always* been a mess of a developer. I don’t doubt he does love games but the fact that he’s been the heart of *so many* nightmarish situations for Gearbox, as a lead, public figure, when he *didn’t need to be*, is what bums me out.