That...doesn’t automatically nullify any criticisms. :-/

The only thing I would point out here is that 1) most people aren’t like this chick, and 2) even if they were, most aren’t Playmate of the year (most of us aren’t going to gyms with famous/semi-famous people), so were they to do something like this, it would be to the 20 people who follow them on Snapchat.

Yep. The gym is a scary enough place to set foot into when you’re uncomfortable with your weight. Add this to it, and lots of people will be scared away. The gym itself is intimidating, let alone worrying about whether you’re going to be judged, photographed, and displayed to the whole world while in the locker room.…

I always reassure myself by thinking “No one is even paying attention to you. No one cares what you look like.” Then I see something like this.

This woman is the exact embodiment of most of my nightmares since about 8th grade.

This woman just kept A LOT of women who were insecure about their bodies from setting foot in a gym. She has been valued for her looks for so long, she probably has no idea that she made real someone’s worst nightmare. Exercising in public when you have body image issues is hard enough. Thanks for making it so much…

One group was a victim of genocide and have basically no media representation. Pirate skins for another group don’t have the same cultural effect. The dynamics are different.

Nah she’s 100% Egyptian. That skin just follows a trend of poor taste. They look cool, but it’s kind of messed up to put a brown character in the garb of a brown demographic she doesn’t belong too.

hey man she was just excited about video games, we’ve all been there

You do understand that fiction has an important role in helping people empathize with and understand unfamiliar people and social settings, right?

Like, this game is not going to save any sex workers. But it will do something useful if it can help a few gamers see them as a little more fully human and complex.

I thought it seemed faithful to his condition at that point of the game. Perhaps there might be a character ark of some sort that is used to develop him. I hear a lot of times a well written character changes over the course of the story. I’m guessing thats what would happen considering that they will probably follow…

Suffering from poisoning probably won’t make you look very beautiful, no.

Muscle atrophy after spending 4 years in cryogenic sleep will do that.

As a fan of both Steven Universe and Undertale, all I can say is I don’t involve myself in their fanbase and still immensely enjoy both.
I don’t say this as a fan of either, but just a general fan: if you dictate what you enjoy by how obnoxious other people who enjoy it are, the only one losing here is you.

Whereas the people throwing absolute screaming hissy fits over its existence and tearing their hair out over the fact people aren’t voting for “real games” are not annoying at all :v

If you’re pissing people off with your journalism, then you’re doing your job. Ruffling feathers, even if you’re entertainment reporters, is par for the course. Don’t stop doing it just because a couple publishers are a wee bit on the childish side of things.

This is a fantastic article on the complex relationship that exists between the developers of art and the people whose job is to review that art. Well written, well stated, A++++ would Kotaku again.

No matter how skeptical/pragmatic I am, mirrors still freak me the fuck out at night time.

I think it just goes to prove that “haters gonna hate” regardless of the situation. You didn’t have to clarify anything. Thank you for sharing your story.

I feel like my story needs a bit of clarification. I was not “spoiled”, as you put it. I am autistic and severely physically disabled, so “normal” ways of earning money were and are not accessible to me. My parents buying all that they did for me had nothing to do with being spoiled. I was the weird kid who hardly…