As someone who started their career working at one of the big Japanese houses, this is an incredibly rosy-tinted picture that ignores a lot of the history of Japanese game development (and our larger culture). Buckle up, I’m going to take you on a little ride through the seedier parts of Japanese game dev…

I’m a AAA game audio programmer. HRTF is a big part of it. The current gen consoles have 3d audio support which means sounds are actually fed to the console hardware as “object data” opposed to being rendered and mixed at a higher level in the game’s software. That’s what lets the HRTF be applied to individual sounds…

As opposed to all of your hobbies that you spend hours upon hours doing over and over to what I’m sure is much greater societal impact

Hey, Ethics in Games Journalism crowd: The corporate breach of editorial independence is kind of a big journalistic ethical issue. It’s maybe the sort of thing that a group which bills itself primarily upon its concern of Ethics in games journalism should be up in arms about.

I mean, I know it isn’t POC or women in…

The “those usually outraged by it” being discussed here do not actually give two shits about corporate censorship, it’s all just hyper reactionary screeching about wokeness.

It’s pointless if you don’t care about international law, human rights and historical record, sure.

How many stores give anything to charity? Even if Humble reduced the amount you could donate, something is still better than nothing. People really need to take a step back and reconsider their all-or-nothing mentality because it’s getting pretty silly.

Yeah, sure it’s Kotaku that is biased here. Come on. Your comments are absurd.

It sounds like your position is you don’t care if it’s disadvantageous to the software creators, just that you benefit in the end. Except you aren’t benefiting in the end either, you are paying more for a limited library of applications. You sound like an apple pr person, or an apple fanboy.

I imagine the change points to the possibility that what they’ve got is not a sustainable business model. I appreciate being able to donate, but how do you maintain a business where your users can opt out of providing you much of a cut at all of the transactions you handle?

“Don’t talk about racism! We solved it by electing a black president and watching Black Panther!”

I mean you should feel bad for that. Corporate greed is corporate greed so this may have been an inevitability, but consumers who act in a way that would literally prevent the sustainable operation of the service can certainly accelerate that process.

And even when they “quote” MLK, BOY is it selective.

“We...must...love...our brotherhood and...have a dream!”

~MLK(...?)

That’s freaking genius. I left school a naive libertarian and ended up a marxist. So much for “liberal university brainwashing.”

He added that “we should be fostering unity to come together and heal—not division. The question is how?”

Yeah, the MLK moment, which used to be second, after the, “I have a Black person(s) in my life!” moment.
Lessee.
Howzitgonow?
1. MLK (formerly: But I know Black people! Could be I’m married to)
2. Unity!
3. I gave money to a cause!
4. Unity!
5. I know Black people!
6. Uh, did I mention Unity!?

“the dominant ideology of America’s public institutions”- Lol, this line right here lets you know the guy is full of it. This is not, and never has, been true, but racism was the dominant ideology of America’s public institutions for the vast majority of this country’s history.

As long as they can keep their base distracted and angry, it makes it easier for the grift to continue and expand. Trump’s loss, nothwithstanding has shown Republicans that even as many times as Trump has fucked things up, even his own reelection, his no-filter ways are here to stay and that catering to the extreme…

Careful! You don’t want people thinking you’re a Dirty Socialist™, do you?

It’s a way to more effectively wage unjust wars which results in people dying, period. Troops are deployed in a lot more places than just the Middle East, although it continues to be a shitshow there, and was all under false pretense to begin with. Supporting the US military in any way isn’t ethical. We squandered…