Not in this case, when you can actually follow the sources and fact-check yourself. Or did you not even bother with that, in your haste to blame Kotaku for this?

Don’t feel compelled to answer, we already know.

Yeah, I don’t. I’m actually good with information literacy, and help instruct others with it. I follow the sources, not the summary. Hence I read the attached article from PC Gamer and the forum post outlining their direct words.

So should I be led to believe that Kotaku forced the words from their mouths? Or did you…

Almost bought this game this weekend on Steam. I came really close.

Thank you for posting this, along with the attempted retraction by the devs. If I hadn’t already put that money elsewhere, you’d possibly be saving me from spending it on this company.

Nothing at all to do with freeze peach here. It’s basically giving a safe zone for racists who don’t want to see non-whites. Is there an appropriate filter for any minorities, who only want to see minorities?

No? Then there you fucking go.

You signed up just to say that? I’d be a fair bit ashamed. Might want to think that one through better next time, and not end on up on the square that has you agreeing with shit policy.

If we let the users do our acquisitions for us, I promise you the libraries holdings would be a bunch of DIY books, James Patterson and Nora Roberts novels, and 32 copies of the Harry Potter series.

Correct. There’s a lot of valid things to dislike about ebook practices: non-standardization of platform, format, licensing, usage, and DRM.

Not among the valid things to dislike: that they aren’t print.

It can be though. Even people who are not exactly readers and don’t visit libraries freak the *entire* fuck out when they see libraries weeding their collections. Maybe not displayed here, but there is a fetish element to print books for a lot of folks; and I love print as well, but degrees man.

I don’t know how many…

“Medium is irrelevant.”

Bingo. The container of information overall really is not what’s important, it’s the content in it. Read books, read ebooks, listen to audiobooks, have them recited to you or whatever. There’s a place in the world for all such mediums, and none of them are inherently bad.

This is not dissimilar at all to sotftball, which makes sense given that they are functionally very similar. I’ve seen people hit with foul softballs, my wife was actually hit with one a few years ago. Luckily it didn’t cause any permanent injuries, but soreness and headaches for a couple of weeks, and a nice…

Very much so. I’m of a similar bent, although more toward fantasy than scifi. I still collect physical books and like them, but for portability and access I really love the reader. Plus my kids play softball a lot, and I can read it at night, in bright daylight, when it’s raining, and have a large library with me that…

Right on man. E-readers may not be your thing, I’m half and half with them and print materials, but they are one way to use the library without physically visiting it too. If you like both, check to see if your local library has Overdrive or the like. It’s fantastic when that new book comes out, and I can download it…

Either event, always thrilled to meet another avid reader, and kudos to your mom. There’s not enough of us left, at least in fiction and definitely among men (huge gendered gap in fiction). I’m the oddball in my group, even among librarians, who reads a couple hundred books every year. We’ve got to stick together with…

Not entirely, but going there. **Actually currently it is under threat of total defunding, my mistake.** The first cuts after our current president made it into office, current cuts threatened will be a lot worse. It’s hurt a lot of libraries, really badly because some of them depend on it more than state or private…

No I get it. I would have gotten my back up too, under the circumstances. Sorry how I came off initially, and glad we’re talking it out.

It’s just hard man. In this field, you defend your fucking existence every day to every “Why are libraries here” or “Isn’t everything online” or “Libraries are for poor people” you…

My man, I will only say this one more time. You came across like a total ass, I responded in kind. Don’t put that evil on me Ricky Bobby.

We look like we’ve come to some civility here, so lets go from there right?

It may not, but it certainly comes across that way online man. Libraries have changed, reading and access to information and platforms has changed irrevocably. It comes across more as if you haven’t totally kept up with it, and are grumbling about the older days when these things might have meant more.

Reading simply…

That’s because you’re hinging the act of getting information from a medium on the the word “reading” which implies a physical and visual medium. Reading is one way to get the information of a book, but books are not the only mediums with that information, and reading’s not the only way to get it. Consider this, your…

See? Call me rude with shit like this? Dude, if you’d been in or worked in a library in several decades you might realize that A) we do this all the time, B) it’s the least of the services we offer, and C) there’s at least several different types of libraries and they don’t all do the same thing (academic research…

I’m trying really hard not to be. Really hard. It doesn’t help when poorly thought out and worded opinions that kind of crap on your field are typed out. I’ll try to check it, but you’re going to have to check how you’re coming across as well.