Because she owns the Harry Potter franchise. Because some people don’t want to participate in a financial transaction to purchase a product when you know a bigot like Joan will be profiting off it. It’s not rocket science.

Nah, she will keep doing this. Because Joan’s demonstrated that she lacks the amount of empathy to listen to people explain why she’s wrong, make an apology, and make a decent effort to correct her behavior.

PogChamp and the Pepe variants POGGERS or POG are a good thing when it comes to its meaning

Did the same yesterday and it did make things better for me. Actually watched his whole reaction to the Game Awards.

That looks like a guy I went to high school with.

Nothing will beat his Cloud reveal IMO.  That was so much less expected at that point.

Sending virtual hugs!

It’s amazing that in my 36 years how much truly regrettable shit I’ve witnessed/experienced with this country. Like I remember during Bush W. era thinking “This is rock bottom, it can’t possibly get worse than being lucky to work in fast food” and comparing that to a literal attempted coup by rednecks led by a literal…

Is there anything better on YT than Max & company’s reaction to fighting game reveal trailers?

Better use of your time, tbh. Have you seen the man’s/angel’s/weird space alien thing’s abs?

I disagree with this assertion, across the board anyway.

excellent suggestion friend:

but it seems disingenuous to immediately turn it into some misogyny thing.

The point was that it managed to depict diverse characters without doubling down on extreme violence that had already received negative feedback in the original game, where at least the grounds for that violence felt real and understandable. You spent that game killing people pretty tamely who were either bandits,…

The more I’ve seen of the game the less I can see any meaning in it, or at least the meaning they wanted it to achieve.

And Last of Us Part 2 explores breakdowns in communication, the dangers of what is left unsaid, the extent to which we will commit to a lie in order to preserve our relationships, trauma, survivor’s guilt, ego death, and the ways in which we perceive our in-groups and out-groups.

Uh, we know, dude. Kotaku is not a government agency. What you are commenting on is not a law or bill or proposed city ordinance. It is a blog containing an opinion about what Ash (and, incidentally, a whole lot of other people) would like to see happen in the future of video games. It is aspirational — a request for…

sure, and people can criticize them if they’re not happy with the choices developers make. it’s a two way street, mate.

if you’ve always been hungry, you don’t know how much food it might take to feel full, because you don’t know what “full” even means. doesn’t mean you aren’t hungry.

You can’t just endlessly want “more”