Did you leave this comment yesterday before the article went live or is something fucky going on with the way Kotaku’s CMS is handling timestamps?

A diversity of takes is always good, but I’m not sure about the reviewer’s specific reason for scoring the game so harshly; in this case, it’s fair to say it boils down to it not being similar enough to much older entries.

on the one hand, it takes one hell of a wimp to be cripplingly afraid of virtual game spiders on your tv. on the other hand, wimps factually do exist and play video games, and i’d much rather be friends with a kind wimp than a violent gimp, so who are we to moan about an accessibility option that doesn’t damage anyone…

The article is clickbait. Here’s an extract of the actual answer below; do you think it sounds like someone who is racist by design?

Nevermind, Valisthea isn’t a planet. And Yoshida’s actual answer was surprisingly nuanced and well-reasoned, and very poorly paraphrased in this article.

So you forgot about your own comment regarding the car guy’s purchasable blue checkmarks? Imagine having a brain-fart like that while you were busy cosplaying an intellectual keyboard warrior lmao

i talked about AI under an article about AI. you started talking about the car guy, and now wanna lecture people about non-sequiturs. gg

Ableism, how classy.

Quite the opposite; intellectual and moral bankruptcy is a title belonging to you and anyone else who specifically and solely scorns the threat of AI. You overlook job losses in absolutely every single aspect of the modern world except for the one that affects you. It’s peak conservatism in action, a classic case of…

Uhuh. Anyone who has ever called out biased articles is now a South African car salesman. Welcome to 2023.

Back in my day, we used to buy ‘magazines’.

“It’s important to recognize that the impact of automation on different industries is not the same, and it’s not fair to compare the impact of automation in the arts industry to other industries.”

No? Twitter’s a dumpster fire

Didn’t stop you from writing an article about Stable Diffusion which had zilch to do with games though did it.

“Automation is bad because it’s threatening a white collar job in the arts”, brought to you by writers who doesn’t mind taking part in the online blogging arena which set fire to countless blue collar jobs.

You guys don’t actually give a crap about automation, not really. You’ve never complained about it on this scale…

“Look, if we lived in a world in which universal basic incomes were common, medicine and food were free, and we had safety nets in place to make sure everyone can live a happy and healthy life, I’d be more okay with AI art and similar tools potentially replacing traditional careers and jobs. But that’s not the case.”