I know Twitter loses a lot of context of a conversation, and elsewhere he refused to dismiss HP goblins being problematic. It’s that ultimately he didn’t feel the way the game uses them is problematic.

The developer has receipts showing that he likely had a very favorable contract which said they were in fact his toys and he could take them home.

Fantastic article. The idea of the game being about maintaining the wizardry status quo is really a turn off.

As I’m not Jewish, I’ve been deferring to Jason Schreier on this topic.

Small correction: Onryo is licensed, not original.

I admit I found the wording a bit awkward, but I agree you’re right that’s how it’s supposed to be interpreted. Though that leads me to a point I didn’t bring up. We can’t actually factor inflation into the price of entertainment. Why? Because real wages have remained stagnant, the cost of living has gone up. As a…

What does this start reminding me of the NFT mess? Libertarian tech bros will steal anything that isn’t nailed down.

That’s a hot take on Jen Hale.  Now do Mel Blanc.

I have now and then found the Steam forums quite useful for finding fixes to technical problems. It’s the only reason I’d hate to lose them. I have long gotten used to filtering out rest when I visit. Though I had noticed several days ago an increase in people spamming transphobic messages across multiple game boards.

If we’re talking USD, there’s no way Chrono Trigger was $100 at release unless some store was hoping to gouge customers. Pre-order at EB here was $70. Though I find it odd people keep wanting to quote old game prices. Cartridges were always expensive to produce, and the process for ordering them was rarely in the…

Which is a fair take.  However it also means I find it absurd to ask me to have any empathy for them.

Phantasy Star 4 was in that neighborhood too.  Granted I’m not sure there was any justifiable reason for it other than Sega wanted to charge that much and who was going to tell them no?

My mistake.

Streamers playing this game have made a conscious business decision to do so.  They have calculated the opportunity cost of walking into a minefield.

The part of the Goblins really bothered me. Wasn’t the lead dev a white supremacist? Even though he was removed, I get the impression that the rest of the studio kept going with his original vision.  In some ways the JK Rowling association has made it easier for the contents of the game to go under the radar.

No matter how many people take the high road, there’s always going to be enough of a fringe element that will be used as ammo in the way you describe.  It could be 100 people, it could be 10,000.  The discourse would not change.

Healthcare in the US is a cultural problem, not a legislative problem. In parts of the world where universal healthcare is seen as a right, those cultures often have a strong sense of responsibility for one another. Government is seen as the most efficient way to achieve that goal. In the US there’s a deep distrust of…

Nintendo won’t even preserve games on their own platforms. I was sad to hear that with the Wii U and 3DS support ending, half the Zelda series is going to end up abandoned on defunct consoles.  Six years later and we still don’t have Wind Waker HD on Switch.

A shame, I actually liked Rumbleverse.  It was the only BR that I played more than just a few rounds.

Good to know it has that option.  Thanks.