They’re just trying to create a pavlovian effect in your brain so that you eroticize violence. It’s no big deal.

I’m baffled by the response to this post. Are people really that jaded that they can bag on Sony after the past few years they’ve had? Boo fucking hoo, they didn’t show 8 new things you haven’t seen before. It’s not like 9 of the 10 best console exclusives of the past 18 months have been on their console. I don’t…

Last year’s keynote was a slow, largely unsurprising presentation, though Sony had already blown much of its wad at PSX six months earlier.

its not hard to fulfill their promises from last year because they didnt make many. that conference was VERY sparse compared to the others. not to mention alot of the promises listed here are not on sony’s shoulders to fulfill, most of these are third party titles. so sony should get neither credit, not blame for…

If you really want the “Heather isn’t fucking around version,” here it is:

Loot boxes are, ignoring the hair splitting of insufferable pedants like yourself, gambling. They are crafted, from probabilities to visual to their contents, to condition individuals and encourage repeated purchase and use. People with…

Worker and consumer rights are absolutely moral issues, largely because compensation for labor and the cost of goods (at least under capitalism) is fundamentally exploitative in execution. Usually, we roll with it and that’s fine. For instance, I don’t have a problem giving my guy at the bodega a buck for a soda even…