But here’s the thing. If a person finds a word offensive, apologize and stop using it. For 99.99% of the population, savage is a word with no baggage. We need to stop saying “you can’t say X because I can imagine a specific scenario in which a person might find X offensive under certain circumstances.”
We don’t need to…

Thank you for reassuring me that there are other intelligent sane people on the internet that also think the outrage should be at appropriate sources.

This feels like the most manufactured of manufactured controversies. I Googled “savage” as requested, and got the following as the first result.

None of the definitions feel inherently racist, and the initial adjectival definition feels like it serves the game perfectly. Sure, the developers *could* have chosen a…

trying to manufacture controversy where none exists

If Kotaku wasn’t the only games site that got through the filter on my work computer I’d never come here again.

I remember this! The memories

I always thought of them as grandma’s reading lenses, but for a game.

I had a fried that had one of those. It actually did make the experience surprisingly better, though that fake joystick kind of sucked.

All that is so over the top. I just remember this one (I had one of those):

I was thinking of the Hyperboy, but the hyperboy actually looks sorta reasonable compared to that monster.

The art direction is lovely, transforming iconic cartoon characters into stout Fortnite-looking characters.

Fuck CDPR.

The privilege is literally oooozing out of every word you just typed. Someone does not “fail” if they do not experience life exactly the same as you do. They are not a “failure” for not having a deep seeded knowledge on all global cultural backgrounds. That’s a far jump between video game cosmetics and your soapbox.

Speaking of lazy: look at Hanzo!

I will assume that at no point in your life have you heard someone say they were upset by something and gone “jeez, that’s a dumb thing to be upset about”. In which case, congratulations on being so very, very noble.

“because you’re privileged enough not to have to deal with the actual issues that the people who are made to wear these sorts of uniforms in real life have to deal with”

Ya I know they should have totally kept her in the skin tight latex suit she normally wears... 

40MB hard drive?! Sweet! Our first when I was young was 10MB. Swapped out the second 5.25" floppy drive to do it.

Using the title of a decade-retrospective listicle over a feature story collection of extremely personal anecdotes about the author’s life strikes me as a narcissistic bait-and-switch. Both genres of story are fine but readers going in expecting one won’t be happy to find the other.

I have an OG Switch that is perfectly fine, even though I use it at least 6 hours/day (I have over 730 hours on Zelda alone) and 80% of the time handheld (I’ve even fallen asleep on my bed with it running more than once).