Even if Rittenhouse wasn’t a murdering racist, even if we painted him in the most flattering light, the broke-brained mentality to celebrate what he did (killing people) would be off the charts insane.

You’re missing the obvious, pointed statement the game is making by featuring zombies: the devs don’t consider Rittenhouse’s victims, or progressives in general, to be fully human. They don’t consider shooting left-wing protesters to be murder.

#0: brought a gun to a civil rights protest, had previously expressed interest in shooting protesters but he didn’t have his gun that night, was later photographed flashing white supremacist gang signs with such a gang

“Once I went to dinner with Gabe,” explained Faliszek. “And he was beating me up, that um…’if you look at zombie movies’ [Newell said] ‘Night of the Living Dead is about racism…Dawn of the Dead is about consumerism.’”

It seems like Gabe’s objection was more philosophical/conceptual, but from a saturation point he’s also not wrong. That era was rotten with zombies in movies and games. It was a really tiring fad. In my mind, the only reason l4d really shined was because of just how ridiculously well executed it was as a co-op horde…

You’re not understanding how this works. “Keep YOUR politics out of video games; not mine.”

So let’s talk about it honestly. A child with an illegally obtained firearm crossed state lines and, while only equipped with said gun (instead of the first aid he claimed to possess), brandished it at multiple unarmed civilians. After being called out for being the punk he was, he shot and killed an unarmed man after…

That’s because they’re not marketing a game, they’re marketing an idea - an ideal, even. Not something to buy, but something to buy into.

Why I have zero sympathy for victims of crypto scams: These people are out there simply begging to be scammed. In fact, the majority are hoping to be on the ground floor of scams in hopes of selling their worthless crap before the bottom drops out.

Can’t wait for the handful of crypto dorks to roll in here talking about how Kotaku never says anything nice about NFTs and no one understand their potential except for them and it’s all so unfair because how are they ever going to become fake crypto Pokémon pyramid scheme landlords if people know that it’s just a…

They’re also overwhelmingly conservative, no? I feel like I never see anyone on the left saying this. They might say “this developer is wrong” but they don’t generally say “keep politics out of it.”

but the league doing a publicity event with an Air Force flyover is something that just appears all by itself and has no political implications whatsoever.

They’re also idiots, because they don’t even realize that what they think of as “apolitical” just means “politics I agree with.”

people who demand “no politics” in gaming are all cowards.

I’d love to see how much revenue Steam earns from the marketplace compared to MTX revenue from popular games like Fortnite and LoL (with adjustments made for user counts). I imagine most developers/publishers don’t allow item trading because they think they can earn much more money by selling items directly to users.…

Don’t mind me, I’m just rolling around in all this sweet, sweet money I get for negging on NFTs, paid by... paid by... um... you know... the anti-NFT lobby!

How about a receipt for a link to a photo of a tulip?

Finally! Maybe now these tulip bulbs’ll really take off.

“LET EM DIE!” — The Republican Party, well before COVID.

Yeah, and the eating areas were very specifically designated, you couldn’t just eat anywhere, which in theory at least would let people who didn’t want to be around unmasked people to avoid them.