No one suggested it was “stifling creativity,” but most people with half a brain find those “progressive pressures” to be extremely fucking annoying. There’s only one side here that actively foists their belief system on others, and demands that they be “cancelled” if creators don’t actively embrace them.

I literally have never met a bigger group of gamers who are crybabies than the bloggers and commenters on Kotaku. Every other article is “OMG THIS GAME IS SO SEXIST” or “WHY CAN’T THE MAIN CHARACTER BE A TRANSEXUAL PUERTO RICAN WHO GOES BY ‘THEY/THEM’ PRONOUNS, REGARDLESS OF IF THE GAME TAKES PLACE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE?!…

Stuff it, homo.

Decency? In a game focused around mowing down countless people with firearms? You have a weird take on where the “decency” line is drawn.

Offended and annoyed are two very different things.

Boo hoo, hate speech, uwahhhhhh

Except no actual journalistic outlet would ever hire anybody that worked at Splinter, or for GMG in general. Everybody with talent hauled ass on out of here when they saw the Hogan Leg Drop coming so that their careers weren’t stained by it.

He “only wears it ironically,” I’m assuming.

Why not? They’ve never used the bombs or planes we sold them against us.

If I had to guess, I’m going to assume Crosbie was about as far from the action as one could get without actually leaving whatever country he was in.

God damn it, Tomato.

Counterpoint: No, and fuck you and the retarded horse you rode in on.

“I’m terrified of people having opinions I don’t like!” shouted the left wing nut job.

That’s because in the United States the government isn’t allowed to regulate your speech so long as there’s no call to action.

I’m not sure, but I feel like if you’re THAT worried about guns that it’s giving you chronic anxiety and your first thought about a car backfiring is “MUST BE GUNFIRE!” you’re either in the wrong neighborhood or you may want to consult a medical professional.

Given their propensity for bombing civilians, as a Palestinian I would probably have taken more care about being friends with people actively advocating against the country where I plan to attend college.

Interesting that Splinter chooses to refer to Bret Stephens as a guy who will make vague threats regarding your career, but not the fact that he was maybe just suggesting you ought not to send unsolicited emails calling another person within your chosen profession a dumbass, especially when that person is more widely…

Now this..This is some baller ass Kinja.

Yes, because the solution should be to throw MORE money to an endlessly corrupt South American nation so it can be siphoned in to one of their bank accounts.

It’s a bit hypocritical for HamNo to publish this trash, given that him and the rest of the bloggers at Splinter change their opinions on publications like the NYT based on whether or not they’ve checked all the virtue signal boxes in their articles.