Stan co-created numerous characters alongside Jack Kirby, who passed in ‘94. Unfortunately, considering his quickly deteriorating health, it’s highly unlikely Stan will live for much longer. So what, do you really think that within 1-2 years the rights to Spider-Man, Captain America and Iron Man should go in the…

I don’t know about that. I mean, I can get behind creator-owned stuff getting into the public domain (such as books or indie stuff like comics, games and movies) once their creators have died, but should “The Fast & The Furious” enter public domain once Vin Diesel dies? Should Spider-Man and dozens other Marvel…

Everything you just said sounds AMAZING. How have I not heard of this franchise before in more than name mentions?

Not really on a different scale, it’s more of a cultural thing - obviously most of the materials about it would be in Bulgarian, since the West has rarely cared about Eastern Europe unless it’s talking about Russia-related fear mongering. Not to mention, with Turkey now being as big as powerful as it is, many fail to…

However, some words have very strong historical connotations that cannot be divorced from present use simply by wishing that it be so; saying that certain words—particularly those that were used as part of a systemic effort to enslave, oppress, and dehumanize a race of people—simply “shouldn’t be allowed to hurt” is…

This was done after a push from big publishers for Steam to find a way to keep the sales of their games private. I guarantee it.

It’s okay to love things that are problematic

Screenshots of conversations appearing to indicate that DreamKazper was communicating with a person he believed to be a 14- or 15-year-old girl surfaced today. The girl in question said in public postings that he sent her lewd images of himself—and received explicit pictures from her.

That’s literally what gaming has always been. Actually, I’d argue that it used to be way worse. One company making one popular game defined an entire console generation, with a good 80% of all NES, Master System and Genesis games being sidescrollers because of Super Mario Bros. The SNES wasn’t much better, with the…

If a single word can elicit the same response in you as someone brandishing a knife on you, that doesn’t speak to how powerful the word is. It speaks to you having some kind of mental issue.

The racial slur doesn’t bother me. There seems to be a story of “X said the N-word” every week or so, and despite the very public shaming obviously most people don’t mind the word that much, so maybe it’s time to drop the ridiculous stigma around it. If it’s no longer a “bad” word, edgelords will use it less. Remember…

I don’t get why people get so hung up on words. Words are just air coming from our lungs altered by the shape of our tongue. Words in and of themselves don’t matter. It’s the meaning we should be looking out for. When Keemstar said “Alex, you’re a stupid fucking n****r”, that was fucking horrible and racist and…

That’s a crazy solid selection on GWG. I’m honestly a bit disappointed in PS+ because the only decent game in the bunch is one I already own, but that’s really par for the course these days.

The Vita still has so many amazing games, a lot of which haven’t been released on Plus yet. I was sort of hoping that Sony would give it a last hurrah and release some cool stuff on it, but alas, we’re stuck with the D-list trash once again.

It’s so weird to see a Disney game being published by Warner Bros. Lego games have always lived in some kind of weird bizarro world as far as their licensing is concerned.

That’s presumptuous of you. Do you also have a distrust of teachers and pediatricians? Believe it or not, some people have a talent and passion for making cartoons and kids shows. Just because one of them was a creep doesn’t mean they should all be “automatically distrusted”.

In what world is running around an empty map for 20 minutes before being shot in the head by a dude half a mile away considered “fun”?

However, while the Overwatch Contenders rulebook has a general provision against “drugs,” the OWL rulebook gets more specific by banning illegal drugs, as well as “alcohol or marijuana.” The rulebook does permit prescription drugs, so long as they’re actually prescribed to the player in question. Unless that…

On one hand, I’m okay with a game featuring sexism. I mean, why not? That’s like trying to censor the N-word from “Huckleberry Finn” (which some idiots, naturally, have tried to do), as long as it’s intentional and important to the narrative I don’t give a shit. But listing “sexism” as, quite literally, a selling…

Wow. And all of them at the full price of $30, according to SteamSpy. Seems like I severely underestimated just how popular that thing is.