I think, aside from the tribalism Phil mentions, some of the weird misplaced anger at exclusives coming to other platforms is the fact that they’d used those exclusives as rationale to justify forking out for that particular console, and when those games aren’t exclusive any more then their rationale disappears too…

A Chinese holding company (TenCent) owns a minority stake in the company while Tim Sweeney himself owns the majority of the company (more than 50%).

Yeah, no - disagree completely.  The radio stations are wonderful.

Perhaps people (including me) are underestimating Youtube. The problem is that Google has a history of investing and then abandoning projects. If Google really wanted to make Youtube a viable channel for streaming, they don’t seem to be making any big public overtures indicating that they are investing in their…

It tried to find its own voice by setting it not in London (as in the book) nor Chicago (as in the movie) but Brooklyn, a setting new and fresh and so little used in film and TV and not at all a tired cliche!

You didn’t read the article and then you wrote an emotional comment that is way off base and reveals a lot about the kind of person you are. 

You seem to have egregiously missed the point, and you’re being kind of a jerk about it.  

“Instead of not acknowledging it or explicitly showing it, the game opts for a middle ground between these two extremes. The result is a muddled and indecisive depiction of Jim Crow.”

I also think the complaints about yearly sports releases are a bit overblown. There are far worse money grubbing tactics in the game industry than marginally improved yearly releases. And when you think about it’s not really a huge investment if you’re an avid FIFA player. 5 bucks a month gets you the game. That’s…

Well, I think the context of these two specific apologies are also NOT well given in this article?

If the US military wants to participate in “the memes” etc. (which is gross anyway), then they gotta take the good with the bad. Get the fuck over it. I thought our military was supposed to be tough? 

If some pedestrian-level twitch trolling sets off a person who is being paid to play video-games for the purposes of recruiting on the basis that they believed somebody was directly accusing them of committing war crimes, and they were of such a fragile mental state that they then perpetrated an act of violence…

The streamers chose to act as a liasons to a nation’s military via propaganda targeted at young people—up to and including minors--while also partaking in erasing valid points brought up regarding said military’s actions on foreign soil in the services of oligarchs.

This streamers are complicit in a us army propaganda campaign, so no.

I think the more interesting question is whether or not the blurring of big-personality entertainment with meaningful interaction could make for a situation where real-world conflict of any kind becomes indistinguishable from the “show” in the eyes of its fans. Will he be forgiven? Possibly, but I feel like that…

Hi, since I’m seeing lots of talk about whether the headline/image are a spoiler, here’s my thinking on that: it’s only a spoiler if you look at Lev being trans as something that’s meant to be a surprise or some kind of dramatic reveal. Years upon years of trans storylines have taught us this (think: The Crying Game,…

I was wondering the same thing, until they said that some of the women were game streamers and some were even Ubisoft employees. Which makes it look like he uses his position to initiate affairs that he wouldn’t be able to without being an exec on a AAA game franchise.

And of course, a bit about people over-reacting to white supremacy is always a good indicator of a person’s shitiness. https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/18/16166836/tina-fey-snl-charlottesville-weekend-update

Excuse me sir, I need to know if your ancestor from 350 years ago was Black

No he understands racism is bad, but he will never understand it from their POV because he simply isn’t one of those he made fun of.  It’s like a dude saying he will never understand what it’s like to give birth to a child but we should be respectful of those that people that can.  Doesn’t take rocket science to…