Pretty sure “Character who is, all at once, evil and ambiguously bi and a bunch of other things” isn’t “bad representation of LGBT people.”

“There’s nothing biased in this piece at all” is the kind of error they try to teach out of you in undergrad... 

Did he ask a tricky question, or did he lie about the film to see if anyone was both 1) paying enough attention to the film’s art to see how it didn’t make sense, and 2) ballsy enough to question Miyazaki? It’s a nicely Machiavellian move, but it’s a lie. Really easy to be “tricky” if you’re not going to play by the…

Agreed. It’s almost as if Melee wasn’t made to be the hardware for a decade and a half of intense, well-paying competition.

No, I think you’re spot-on, everything from being prophetic to being more honest, because, in then end, you want to BE a sociopath, and Rockstar wants to sell you just the game to do it.

I remember feeling a little physically ill at around the halfway point in the game, looking at the dark corners of my apartment a…

Street Fighter at its best is so beautiful, such a lovely marriage between awesome characters/moves/matchups and deep technical possibility. It’s such a shame that it’s ever thought of as less than the best of the best in fighting games, but the troubled launch of 5 as compared to all the bells and whistles on a game…

I still agree with my original comment, but the anger and disappointment of the community makes more sense now. I think they were less wrong than I originally thought. As for “not running my mouth,” that’s how I went from not being informed about this to being informed, so I don’t see the problem. Remember: It’s a…

I’ve developed a higher level of sympathy for the argument since my initial post. I don’t read about AC games, so I was unaware there was a marketing push in the direction of “your character can be any kind of sexuality you want.” To have that taken away by later DLC story does seem like a bummer. I still think…

People apologize when they aren’t sorry for the same reason innocent people sometimes confess to crimes: they think not doing so will be worse for them.

I just don’t like the idea of “We very regrettably missed that naming that trophy that way would be offensive to people choosing to interpret it the cruelest way possible.” A game company changing the mechanics of its game, like microtransactions, because people mostly hate it and aren’t using it as intended, makes…

Last things first, people apologize when they aren’t sorry, and make changes they don’t want to make, because these are the most politically expedient choices to make, all the time. Saying, “They caved, so it’s wrong” is as illogical as saying, “The Supreme Court said he didn’t have to bake the cake for their gay…

I got Rogue for cheap because I wanted to see how they handled being a Templar. I hear it’s almost identical to Black Flag gameplay-wise, and I mostly enjoyed it. Wish they’d dumped the frame story, and other story elements were boring, but it was worth the deeply discounted price I got for it. I hear the newest games…

One thing the community is making clear to me, after I wrote my original statement, is that this game/DLC was marketed specifically to LGBT+ audiences. If that’s the case, then it makes the hard-locked heterosexual relationship and child more understandably bothersome.

My big “beef” with this story is that some people…

Ah, that’s a good point. I could make a comment about how I’m not calling for anything to change just because I don’t like it, but I think that’d fall flat. Maybe I just think it’s “worth an io9 comment” but not “worth telling the company they messed up”.

Perhaps I did. Would you mind explaining it to me?

This is a very good book that helped teach me how to not let external sources dictate whether I can be happy: https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Theory-Psychology-Personal-Freedom/dp/0060930144/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=choice+theory&qid=1551189987&s=gateway&sr=8-2

You’re picking the worst explanation for my words you can. I kinda understand that, but it doesn’t make you not wrong.

First off, I don’t even play the Ass Creed games because I think they suck, so I doubt I’ll be too perturbed.

I don’t have a problem with increased representation. Heck, even if I did, it’s not like there’s not always a “hetero” way to play these AAA games, so I could just do that. I’m just a big fan of myself and…

At some point, some company or celebrity is going to say, “I’m hearing you say you didn’t like that, but I’m not changing it, and I’m not changing my mind. It doesn’t make your life harder and wasn’t directed at you in any way. This will just have to be one of those little things that aren’t exactly the way you like…