Non-Japanese fans of Japanese game: We are mad that a character from said Japanese game appears a slightly different shade of color in Japanese cartoon series based on same Japanese game!

My dad dealt with a lot of racism growing up and while I’ve had an easier time of it, I’ve got my share of problems too. I just get tired of my people getting treated like fragile porcelain by white dudes who want to feel woke. The word savage isn’t gonna hurt us. Institutionalized racism hurts us. Police hurt us.…

But here’s the thing. If a person finds a word offensive, apologize and stop using it. For 99.99% of the population, savage is a word with no baggage. We need to stop saying “you can’t say X because I can imagine a specific scenario in which a person might find X offensive under certain circumstances.”
We don’t need to…

stopped reading and started skimming when he tried to explain the word savage to me and ti turned out to be a history lesson

trying to manufacture controversy where none exists

If Kotaku wasn’t the only games site that got through the filter on my work computer I’d never come here again.

Keeping up with the “you can’t use that word” anymore treadmill is definitely exhausting. 

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

“Unless that was poorly-worded sarcasm, I guess.”

Like the entire article is sarcasm

Thats clearly sarcasm

You don’t seem to have the attitude toward a LEGO set that one would expect from someone writing for Kotaku.  

Now? I agree. But I was in cub scouts in the early 80's, when wedge cars were all the rage. I had a Countach, a Vector W8 and (somewhat embarrassingly) a Fiero on my wall. I thought it was rad as hell. 90% of the kids in my ‘den’ or whatever it was had cars that looked similar to mine.

She was just looking for new opportunities to mention she went to Stanford.

I had a female “sometime” Mech Engnr girlfriend once comment that her favorite core ME classes at Stanford had been “Vibrations” followed by “Advanced Fluid Dynamics”...

I also vibrate like crazy with mechanical stimulus

Wait, you subscribe and STILL pay for the games?

And God help you if Stadia ever shuts down.

I think that swagger’s going to be mitigated by the fact that there’s a subscription fee (for the pro level, anyhow) combined with having to buy the games (which isn’t the case for most other sub-streaming services) on top of the latency problem.

It’s a grand idea, but its pricing model sucks, and the connectivity…

It’s a beta test, and one that Google has a lot of stones to ask people to pay to get into.