Spanfeller has told Kotaku they will deprioritize news and spend most of their time on guides. Jen, the EIC, resigned in protest.

‘Also everyone we knew at WotC/Hasbro has lost their jobs, so....’

“This just in, Larian founder Swen Vincke says WotC just showed him an extra 0 and they’re gonna make another.”

Whoa guys, don’t you know you’re only supposed to be guides and walkthroughs?

Remember when Deadspin was told to ‘stick to sports’ and stop doing the actual content I went there for?

Just give them everything the carcass of Bioware has now.

Hey, ummm... Be careful.

But how are we going to hit our 50 guide quota without BG3 DLC?

This doesn’t look like a how-to guide for BG3, does Spanfeller know about this?

We have arrived at the crux of the issue, I think. At the question “how much violence is the state allowed to use with our tolerance and for our protection”.

I agree with your intent, and I think your stated ideas apply to this context and many others without issue, but it’s impractical to apply broadly.

All rape is (also) psychological abuse. I don't see your point. There is no good rape.

It’s not “counterproductive”. It is an abomination. Again, I understand the sentiment, but we must decide to not be like them. Not to forgive, fuck forgiveness. Certainly not to forget or excuse. But we cannot become like the rapists.

Perhaps I misunderstood you. When we, as a society, agree to do horrible things to “bad” people, we leave the door open to wide interpretation of the word “bad”.

Not denying the character of Tate, but do you want to live in a society that supports state-sanctioned killing? Even if the man is beyond reform, killing him serves no purpose other than making hysterical people feel more comfortable.

It’s wild how the person you’re responding to doesn’t understand that “but it’s okay because they DESERVE it” is exactly what rape apologists believe. They just draw the line at who “deserves it” differently.

There is no good rape and bad rape.

There’s a pretty common attitude that all manner of atrocities - murder, torture, rape, even war and genocide - are fine as long as they happen to the “deserving”.

Look, we can talk about the death penalty. But there is no “rape penalty” - and there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be, because it then normalizes rape, a thing which is not normal and has no justification ever. I understand the hate and revulsion, I feel it myself. But this narrative of “haha, you’ll go to jail and…

The Nazis had similar conceptions.