I mean OW1 still got 3 years worth of free content and launched at just $40 ($60 for some extra skins).

Or could be one of those black people, Karen’s refer to when they claim they got a black friend. Or passes out N world passes, ha. There is no way a minority who visits kotaku or any gaming enthusiast site hasn’t encountered this bullshit.

People in general like to play someone who represents them. As white people we have been so blessed with this it’s harder to see the issue. 

Just to be a bit pedantic, robots don’t have ethnicity. And even using your examples, “Zenyatta” isn’t Tibetan by concept - his name is derivative of Japanese terms and is more representative of Japanese Chan Buddhism. And while I can’t speak for all minorities, I’ve never look at any four-legged mech and went…

To me, the issue is less that the cast isn’t “diverse enough,” and more that they’re not meaningfully diverse. Yeah, you have people from the Middle East; from Future Australia; robots that are clearly Tibetan (but not really because we don’t want to anger China); characters from Asia and Europe and the Americas;…

Imagine believing that having dark skin and being African means you’re black....

No, this is like celebrating Marvel for taking 19 movies to have a black lead and 21 movies to star a female heroine. Yes, I’m glad they did it. No, that doesn’t mean they should have dragged their feet as long as they did, and it doesn’t retroactively make it better either (if anything, their respective successes…

Everything you just said about writing is absolutely true. When they released Ashe I was like a simple race change wouldn’t have been so hard. 

As a storyteller, to say that you’ve “had” to save your black woman for a story is a bit weird, because you’re the writers, and you write the story, and there is nothing you have or don’t have to do. You could have altered the story (most of the story isn’t even in the game proper). You could have changed the…

Man, there’s a bunch of dipshits in the comments essentially all crying “I don’t like protests when they’re inconvenient!”

Gee, I’m so sorry. It’s crazy that people like me care to point out silly things like companies participating in the suppression of dissent against an authoritarian government during a massive crackdown on millions of people wanting nothing more than democracy and personal freedom.

Announcing that they’re revoking Blitzchung’s suspension would be a good start towards showing actual remorse.

It’s not just to drag Blizzard. There’s also the fact that the conservative/alt-right gamer sphere is also pretty fashy, and the only thing fascists hate as much as blacks and gays are commies.

I guess he would say he ain’t trolling but whatever it is he’s being stupid.

it really is the weirdest, dumbest hill to die on.

Mmm, nope. The right is definitely more inclined to use them I’d say.

I mean, some “dumb shit labels” have their place, and their existence should be evaluated on individual merits. The “who, what, when, where and why” is pretty important distinction for having a discussion with actual nuance.

We don’t live in a vacuum after all. So equating two actions to being of the same value because…

Honestly, the people who feel it necesary to equate the two sides as being equally awful are the hardest to tolerate.

“Both sides” as in “the one side spewing misogynist, racist, absolute shit-tier takes” and “the other side mocking the first side for being misogynists and racists”? Yeah, absolutely the same thing. Great take, chief.

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