Man, these grey comments about workers not being able to handle the content of a game they signed on to make, way to miss the point. Exposure to material like this effects the human psyche negatively, blanket statement, end of story. Even if the extent of that damage is desensitization and is largely not at a…

I’m particularly wary of the scary language around developers monetizing addiction in children.

I get where you’re coming from. MK is one of my favorite series, but I’d be lying if I said that the more recent games didn’t give me slight creeps when I did one of Jacqui or Kotal’s fatalities.

“You’d walk around the office and one guy would be watching hangings on YouTube, another guy would be looking at pictures of murder victims, someone else would be watching a video of a cow being slaughtered,” they said. “The scary part was always the point at which new people on the project got used to it. And I…

It’s almost like excessive violence can be bad for a person. Interesting.

...oof.

Defining the transactions really is the key part though. While there are certainly obvious cases on either side that few-if-any people would argue with, there’s a vast degree of judgment involved in picking transactions.

Loot boxes are definitely predatory, but this bill really sounds like it’s targeting a wide swath of DLC and microtransactions without regard for what parents are already able to do. I’m particularly wary of the scary language around developers monetizing addiction in children. That’s... well, that language is not…

Yeah, exactly. Wrong guy, but if we get the right outcome, I'll take the win.

I was a bit surprised to see a Republican was spearheading this initiative.

Yeah, non-binary (they/them pronouns, but they prefer masculine relationship titles like “husband” or “uncle” because the alternatives are impersonal or goofy). Fuckin... this is gonna keep the troll comments coming, I’m sure, because saying this will be absolute catnip to a certain kind of asshole. But the reason why…

Perhaps your version of “helping” isn’t actually accomplishing anything? Or you’re not helping or supporting in the way that they need to be supported.

Yeah, I’d definitely rather focus on the fact that she shared, like, a thing implying that grieving parents’ pain was false then the fact that she’s not the best voice actor.

Oh yah, winter’s coming, dontchaknow. Heckuva deal for us white walkers.

“White Walkers HATE her! This one neat dagger trick will end the Long Night”

I like people who didn’t get sent to the cornfield.

There is nothing in the goddamned world like the absolute fragility of folks who occupy majority (race/ethnicity/sex/sexual orientation/religious affiliation) status feeling like they might have to share the pie they’ve previously had 99% of.

Think about this for just a moment: Every time someone screams about “SJWs,”…

This is why whenever people try to correct me and say that I should’ve said couldn’t care less I say “No, I cared at least enough to be talking about. I care less than that about a lot of things.”

It’s literally not possible that you couldn’t care less about smash bros when you clicked on an article about smash bros and clearly at least skimmed it. Unless you spend all of your internet time clicking on whatever article you see and reading it, whether you care about it or not.

Stop violating the developer’s intended vision u filthy casual