“We feel it’s hypocritical for Blizzard to punish Blitzchung but not us,” the players told USgamer. “The response from Blizzard shows that as soon as the messaging is out of the view of China, they don’t care about ‘political’ messaging.”

Wow. Never thought of it like that. Totally invalidates every single point. China is SO KEWL!

“I will not be a smiling face on camera that tacitly endorses this decision.”

I really like the way he put this. 

{I don’t know why this made it back into the Kotaku rotation, but I did all this before noticing this was a four year old article, so I’m posting it anyway, dammit.}

The next step is that a woman who stays with her abuser out of fear and miscarries a fetus after he hurts her gets a harsher sentence than the abuser, because she shouldn’t have stayed with him. But for the woman who leaves her abuser and is stalked by him, hurt and miscarries is also responsible, because she should…

hurting China is not a win. The goal was supposed to be getting more jobs in the US by getting more things built in the US. moving this from China to another non US country does nothing to boost US based jobs.

I’d suggest they come and make them in Canada instead, far more stable Country.

They can write to Trump all they want, he still won’t understand how tariffs work. He’ll still go on thinking that they’re a fee that the exporting country has to pay. No one will ever get it through his skull that he’s imposing taxes on imports, which are passed along to American consumers.

Counterpoint: Loot boxes are bad, that’s obvious, everyone knows it, and you like getting attention for saying things that are wrong.

Why can people not understand the difference between physical and digital? Is the concept so hard to grasp. When you buy a physical item, you own it. It’s yours to do with what you will. Digital items are “licensed”, you don’t own them, you cannot do what you want with them. They hold no post purchase value.

Calling a thing garbage as an objective fact should really be reserved for the most obviously awful things. Being a nazi is garbage. A mobile game is not garbage objectively, it’s garbage in your opinion.

I’m curious, do you operate on the assumption that comment section are the equivalent of screaming into the void? i.e. Do you comment with no expectation of conversation?

By this criteria, Endgame should have done really well.

Kotaku commenters never fail to amaze. From “deplatform someone without a shred of proof” to “yeah, he’s probably a literally rapist.”

Says innocent until proven guilty and then just assumes guilt.

It’s probably due in large part to cultural indoctrination.  There’s some things about Japan I don’t like either but, I don’t write off all of Japan for it.  Which is what he seems to be doing, it’s sad but I understand.  It’s difficult to rise above your programming.

Here’s the thing though.

Even if he was going to lump it all together both of those film series have historical context that goes beyond american values to place whatever time period they represent in a justified violence. Even if tolkien wasnt being alegorical with his use of race people like Attila the hun STILL set the world on fire, you…

You mean you want gamers who pay $60 of their hard-earned cash for a broken AAA title to be nice and friendly with the fucks who ripped them off?

Even the swordsmanship is lacking here because he didn’t even cut the baseball. It looks like he hit is but it slid off the sword. Which means he did not hit it precise enough to slash it in half.