I literally link to both that thread and the Verge piece people are using as proof. It’s in the article. Which I recommend you read before dropping a comment.

It’s about a video game on a news site about video games. I argue the same about regular news once upon a time. The Turks and Shinra, er I mean Syria have been at it for years. Is it news? Yes. Yes it is.

imo it makes sense to cover these massive personalities even when they’re not fucking up super bad. tons of people pay attention to them, and if they’re used to actual coverage they might not flip the fuck out whenever a major site writes about how they said the n word or whatever

Genuinely asking: Why such strong negativity towards him?

It wasn’t an origins story though, it was a reboot featuring a character very distinctly different from the previous canon.

Nope, I’d be calling them out for being unfair to the devs if they were liberal or conservative.

Speaking just for myself, I just disagreed with the choice of song style.

Well as long as we’re talking about things we regret reading, I’ll go ahead and add your comment to the top of the list.

Stop being a disingenuous banana, you know exactly what they mean and your smug act is tacky and boring.

People really need to learn the definition of the word hiatus and stop thinking it means a cancellation or an ending to something. :/

To be fair, that was really the sentiment in the 90s, thru the 2000s.

If words and phrases no longer have any offensive connotations to 99.9% of people, why bother? Languages evolve over time, these phrases have completely divorced themselves from their origins. Literally no one is complaining about this.

Seems like maybe you expect a lot

Preface: I’m going to be getting into the state of mental health care and awareness in the US in this post; no part of what I say below is intended to remove blame from Mr. Giles, or to say that he is somehow innocent. I’m focusing on a larger concern that is illustrated by this article, rather than trying to address…

Gamers everywhere will now be furious that these companies are businesses and act accordingly.

No it isn’t. They bump when they have someone with a better season. They thought she’d medal because she scored in the top three a bunch that year. They bumped for Michelle Kwan too and they bumped the men this year too (though I didn’t watch the US one this year so I’m fuzzy on who - Brown or Miner I think).

That’s not how the US selects its team. http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/12/27/how-us-olympic-figure-skating-team-chosen/

Nagasu was my favourite of the US skaters but aside from that one US tournament Wagner outskated her all year.

Someone else suggested it the other week, but http://www.threepanelsoul.com/ is pretty good (and usually gamer/gamer-adjacent).

You actually don’t.