If getting off to hot girls older than you while under 18 makes the women pedos than I turned a lot of women in to pedos in the late 90s....oops.

You do know its comically easy for kids under 18 to get any sexual content they like, right? You can’t even argue that she markets directly towards under 18s so calling her a pedo means you’d have to call any man or woman that creates sexual content a pedo simply because kids can access it easily thanks to the internet…

I’ve heard reporting that some of the soldiers there hadn’t even heard of the Chernobyl accident.

I see you actually read the whole piece with a critical eye and comprehension. Kotaku wasn't counting on anyone actually doing that, they assumed you'd just react to the headline.

It also implies that non-white people are, unlike white people, deeply knowledgeable about and involved in the cultures of their origins.  That just seems like self-serving nonsense.  I have no reason to think that a person who is Vietnamese has a deeper knowledge of Vietnamese history and culture than a person who is…

That’s the Kobiyashi Maru of this.  Do it like they did?  Problematic as laid out.  Do it like you said?  Appropriation.  Don’t do it at all?  Erasure.  There is no winning move here.

I understand people’s reticence to this, especially if you belong to the cultures this particular fantasy-inspired campaign exists in, but if your example boils down to them wearing some costumes in a silly promo piece that explorers used to wear, then that’s... not a lot.

So no matter how sensitive or respectful they might be, white people should never explore anything outside of their own culture and heritage? It is WILD how the far left is swinging all the way back around to the idea that segregation might be a good idea

Imagine a group of allies and progressives being like “hey we want to explore some other cultures in a fun and not appropriation way so let’s hire some people to guide us on that way and present it to people” and standing on the sidelines and being like NO YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!!!

That would have been the complaint instead.

Maybe they thought that dressing up in traditional attire of cultures that aren’t their own as white people would’ve been 10x worse.

No one is ‘so mad’, it’s just like 20 people on Twitter. I’ve seen just as many people be happy to be represented and feel seen by the campaign.

In the end...it really is just Dungeons and Dragons.  It has inspirations from other cultures...sure.  It also has dragons and talking robots and people who can shoot fire from their hands.  Why doesn’t the author make the same complaint of Wizards of the Coast themselves?

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

In Dying Light 2, the zombies you see were infected by a new, super-strain that the vaccine couldn’t fight. All of those zombies could be people who got the vaccine back in the day. Or they are folks who have turned in the years since the fall of the planet, post-vaccine. 

Well, no. Seeing how in the game there seem to be hundreds of zombies per living human I’d say people got vaccinated in a somewhat realistic proportion.

Low effort headline to a low effort article. More people are playing more games, spending more money on them and spending more time with them. Have you even looked into the earnings reports for the major publishers for 2020? Take Activision and there Q3 quarterly earnings results. Every single game listed in the first…

I think it’s a combination of the game being open world and actual missions being small “dungeon” style encounters that can be tackled out of order, as well as a troubled development.

The article also describes a 2007 party Oneal attended, along with Kotick, in which “scantily clad women danced on stripper poles,” while a DJ “encouraged female attendees to drink more so the men would have a better time.”

Did you watch it? He defended trans MULTIPLE times during that and other specials. All jokes are at the expense of someone or some thing. His weren’t dark. Why can the trans community attack those they don’t agree with while at the same time complaining about being attacked.