Ah, you’re right! My apologies. I meant to say: underage children wearing latex fetish wear designed specifically for erotic play.

I respect your use of the following logical fallacies: red herrings, goalpost moving, and strawmen.

Man, that is one huge leap from: “don’t have 13 year old girls in thongs” to “no one should ever have sexuality”

If you’re refusing to purchase this game because you can’t see panties, just look up porn. There’s literal years of footage you can use to entertain yourself from all styles and fetishes. You’re not trying to play a game, you’re trying to get off.

In the words of Last Podcast on the Left (which is deeply problematic on its own) “STOP PRAISING HIM, HE KILLED OVER 30 INNOCENT WOMEN!”

I get that. I also understand that that kind of mentality ultimately leads to less choice, as what happens in game design in the real world. Hence the DnD 4e comparison.

Not to hate, but this is exactly how you get boring, narrow scope of characters. The more you minimize options for what you can do, the more you’re going to end up with lower replay values, lower dynamics in character design, and a loss of connection to making a character ‘you’ in whatever context that may be.

I toast to you, sir.

They didn’t choose money. They chose China’s money. They chose a market to cater to, the Chinese market. The company could, if they so chose, take a moral and ethical stance and fight against the Chinese market, instead of immediately cave to them.

Blizzard is not being a neutral party in this instance. They have clearly chosen a side.

“Every voice matters - unless you disagree with us. Then, keep it to yourself, and make sure your demonstrations are meaningless.”

I think the general writing quality of Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment come down to the writers not being dismissive or skeptical of the reading abilities of their audience, and how much they’d care to hear the story at hand.

Kotaku remains deep in Epic money.

Professors have tenure, which protect them from being fired for voicing personal opinion. It was created for that exact purpose. Following that, we do have opposed views. I am not putting words in your mouth, I am spitting words out of mine.

So you’re saying a politics site was shut down for repeatedly reporting on... politics...?

Because your second paragraph is completely undermined by your first. “Blizzard should have the right to shut down dissent, but they went about it roughly, which is bad.”

There is literally nothing that shows writing about Hong Kong shut down Splinter.

Fortnite is just a playable billboard that allows people to shoot each other while staring at product placement.

Running away from politics and ‘hard discussions’ doesn’t make the topic go away.

...You’re kidding, yes?