You don’t though. The thing is worth whatever anyone will pay, and whatever anyone will pay is what it’s worth - because it has no worth independent of consumers.

Judge: “It was delayed because I had severe medical concerns that I needed to have taken care of for my own health. It was necessary.”

Love we’re still going with “Bloomberg Reported” as opposed to ‘every writer who could manage it left this sinking ship a long time ago - but we’re petty so we refuse to invoke Schrier’s name’.

“COMPANIES ARE CENSORING PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO REPRESENT THEM AS BIGOTS!”

Fun fact: Nathan Grayson cannot be hired anywhere else, as he is a gigantic ball of radioactive mess that Kotaku had to repeatedly defend hiring when he first joined the team.

HAHA! You’re so right! Everyone who doesn’t immediately know as much as you, or takes cues from social media should be threatened with hospitalizing injuries or potentially death!

SO MUCH THIS. US laws around pornography are incredibly hazy, and do not have strict definitions anywhere because strictly defining what is pornography is impossible. The Supreme Court even ruled on that. It was literally boiled down to ‘I know it when I see it’. ie, it was entirely up for the interpretation of the…

They’re a paid crony for Epic, I thought we knew this?

Every article about this lawsuit has been either ‘neutral’ or ‘in favor’ of Epic. Even in the recent article on Epic stealing money from developers in their free give-aways, Kotaku had apologia. Even this is ‘WHY DIDN’T THEY CARE ABOUT TIM SWEENY!? HE’S IMPORTANT!”

“where one executive issues an impassioned selfishly motivated plea for marketplace reform more profits for EPIC, which is beholding to Apple to get onto an app store so they can bleed kids’ parents for money on questionable products that are called gambling in countries outside of the USA, fine-tuned to exploit…

And as other consumer reports have cited: EPIC’s exclusivity deals this year dropped from ~100 over the last 1.5 years, with only ~20 prospective exclusives on the horizon.

Oh, man. It’s like I and many other detractors said way back in the day when this started: this is some shady shit to shortchange some folks in favor of Epic.

Cool, can’t wait for the EULAs to describe how they own all content posted onto ArtStation, so Epic can just steal artwork from creators without paying them, and then saying ‘well, you agreed we own this to do with it as we please when you posted it here’ a la facebook and twitter.

The sheer number of times video games companies have tried to stop nude cosplayers, R34 artists, etc. goes back decades.

You are completely misunderstanding the whole point of the Gamestop pumping that was done by Reddit folks.

I played CP2077 from start to finish with a pile of glitches and a terrible frame rate. It didn’t bother me that much, I’m not one to really care about graphics - I want a good story and a good gameplay experience.

I can confirm, having lived in Newport News (Bad News) for a few years that Windsor is the backwater, horrible township of a bunch of poor white people that didn’t want to live in the Black majority Newport News, Black-saturated Hampton Roads, and the generally mixed population of the Tidewater.

Same thing that happened with Occupy Wall Street: use the media to mix the message and turn folks against one another, then commodify it into a product.

Folks can call me cynical all day, but I’d definitely call it realism. I’ll be optimistic when an AAA company gives me anything to be optimistic about.

But that’s what I’m saying: it’s not just the title ‘action RPG’, it’s how everything they’ve shown us looks like everything that they’ve already shown us.