“Obtuse” isn’t grammatically incorrect though. Only one of those words is used far less frequently than the other.

I already gave up hope for Europe and its internet after the whole Article 13 debacle, but this is something else.

Some might celebrate this as a win for consumer rights, or a kick in the dick to a huge corporate entity.

The flaw with that approach is that it equates the size of a game with its value, which is problematic for all sorts of reasons. Size can certainly be one factor in assessing a game’s value, but most people would rather pay $60 for a 15-hour experience like Uncharted 2 than they would pay $60 for 100 hours of, say,…

This came up in the thread about Apple Arcade, but I’d like to point out that our reluctance to pay $50-60 for premium games is what’s leading the industry towards more pay-to-play and subscription models.

Today I didn’t shit on the floor at a restaurant ZOMG SELF CENSORSHIP

It’s not the “ogay” thing in isolation. It’s that the devs saw consequences for engaging in active hate speech on discord which clearly filtered into their game, and their ultimate response is to signal to the worst people in their fandom that this is who they are, and this is who they support. It’s not “ogay.” It’s…

Uh, what’s the joke?  You don’t think they could come up with any other pun besides one that uses being “gay” as the source of it’s humor?

I’m not het, my husband’s not cis, we play a shitload of games, and this fucking sucks. I don’t give a fuck about how you’re Totally Not Offended, that doesn’t change how much it sucks. All you’re really communicating is that you’ve found yourself in the enviable position of being insulated from the consequences of…

Sure, it’s a dumb joke.. well, joke is pretty generous, but the bigger problem is them coming back and saying, “You know what? FUCK YOU, YOU CAN’T TRAMPLE OUR FREE SPEECH” like some basement dwelling mouthbreather that doesn’t understand what censorship actually is.

As a straight-cis-white-male-liberal-establishment-democrat, I would like to say that it’s about time for us all to STOP CARING ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED ABOUT. You be offended for you when you are, and work to change whoever’s behavior you were offended by for the future if you so desire. But why is it…

Removing something from your own work that you feel do not stand by is, just saying, not fucking censorship. It’s called editing! Ya know, that shit that you do in order to create a good work?

Ah, right..”censorship”...the cowards reasoning for accepting and brushing off hate speech.

Cool, that’s one less game I have to play.

Just how full of white dudes is craft beer?

In before the white-hot nuclear takes about reverse discrimination and prejudi—oops, too late:

“It can’t always be just about putting us in our places.” 

Hey I can respect that you came back and admitted that after reading the garbage. I appreciate that. 

Who the fuck is ungreying all of the people trying to mansplain all of this to justify any of it? I also want to observe that while there are obvious gender politics at play here I can’t help but feel this just speaks to how our society has a huge problem with basic empathy skills: It’s your body, what you do with it…

Read the Twitter replies when it was trending. It was absolutely about shaming her. Everyone just assumed she was wealthy because of her immense popularity. People were absolutely gleeful that she made so little from porn. It was disgusting.

So I have a side business in which I am my only employee and I don’t imagine ever expanding it beyond that. However, if I did attempt to grow it into a full-time operation with a staff of 10 or more (or whatever the union-eligible threshold is) I kind of think I’d want my employees to form a union. Not for any…