Uh...how is this at all a “dick move” exactly? They blatantly used the Pokémon brand in their advertising. This isn’t some obscure thing like “Elder Scrolls vs Mohjang.” This is actual copyright infringement.

When reports come out that renowned pachinko manufacturer Konami treats its game developers like prisoners, you won’t hear much.

I wish I could answer it for you. I assure you, I am also perplexed by how ridiculous American culture and mindset can be. There are nice things too but unfortunately the negative things seem to heavily outshine the positive. People seem to seriously lack common sense nowadays and it seems to just be getting worse.

“but I will say that I have yet to see a cutscene that’s run longer than a few minutes”

My husband is a truck driver, and the stories are appalling. One that still disturbs me to this very day was when he got a new truck, and the other driver hadn’t completely cleaned it out for him. All over the bunk walls were naked women from adult magazines- and their eyes had been cut out. Hundreds of them.

He used…

Jesus fucking christ, EA didn’t put him in jail or suspend him from playing. They just think it’s probably smarter to avoid using him as a marketing tool to sell a game. He could be charged tomorrow, he could be on trial in 6 months, and then they’re stuck with him already printed on the cover...it’s not a smart risk…

Losing a sponsorship deal is hardly “persecution”. And if you want to keep your celebrity endorsements then you’ve got to behave - that’s part of the deal, whether implicitly or explicitly. Kane goes out all the time and gets wasted and does stupid stuff, so even if he didn’t commit rape, he’s done a lot of stuff to…

Classy.

The border between America and Canada is a friendly one, free of the fences or political drama that characterizes the line separating the U.S. from Mexico.

Yup—if you’re complaining about this shit and you don’t personally attend women’s sporting events/buy merch/etc., you’re a part of the problem.

This game was SO f*cking fun to watch for the USA too. Also just noticed that the women spend a lot less time doing sh*t like this:

Revenue is a sexist pillar of the patriarchy.

Yes, I agree, women who play professional sports should be fairly compensated. And the disparity between losing in the first round of the men’s FIFA World Cup and winning the women’s FIFA World Cup should not be so stark - particularly for an organization wit h so much money running around. HOWEVER, some of the reason…

How much revenue does the women’s team generate relative to the men’s team?

tl;dr It’s just standard anime-grade Japanese weirdness, not homophobia. Everybody relax.

I was also curious about what makes Vávra tick. I’d only seen him from afar, in figurative armor. I’d spotted him as a pugnacious user of Twitter who would mix Tweets about game design with angry complaints about so-called social justice warriors and charges that, as he put it last October, “the future of our biz is…

Another fun fact is that the house belonged to Final Fantasy XIII’s level designer.