God dang it Bobby. Avakianis, overseeing sexual harassment issues, was a Trump appointee for the SEC. Politics not withstanding, he doesn’t have a fantastic record on sexual harassment, and her history at the SEC lead to a reduction in overall enforcement. You coulda picked anyone... Not a great choice.

I’d imagine Sony probably does care if PS5s are slurped up by resellers. Consoles generally are sold at a loss in order to create the market for their games. Getting consoles into the hands of consumers should be lubrication, not friction.

That’s a nice thought, but realistically I think it’ll just teach players to get mad at their tank when they don’t pick Rein/Orisa/Sigma

How often is any character’s gender identity substantially relevant to a narrative of a typical game? If it’s not relevant, how does it get brought up? And if it is relevant to the narrative, I feel like it’d be inappropriate to couch it in some sort of trauma vehicle for character growth.

As someone who works in composing/licensing, it’s likely that it’s either a deliberate homage or they used Ghostbusters as placeholder music, ended up really liking it, and then said “give us something that sounds like this”. It happens very often. So it’s an interesting catch, but nothing to see here.

Giving the game the maximum benefit of the doubt, I wouldn’t put any of that in the trailer. I’d use the marketing to attract maximum audience and save the morality for the end of second act/entire third act.

Gender is a spectrum. Expecting someone to perfectly align with a binary, and alienating them if they don’t, is inherently problematic. Opinions and politics are also spectrums, and expecting someone to perfectly align with a binary... well, you know.

Subscribing to a service and then buying full price games within that service ecosystem is big stupid friction to me. If I had to buy the individual shows I watch on Netflix, I’d cancel that naked cash-grab in an instant.

Heh.... “uncut”. Nice.

“For the nine-month period ending December 31, 2019". Wrong year here.

He drew some inaccurate conclusions, and that’s an important thing to point out. NOT the fact that he is not poor. His wealth should not at all undermine the fact that he speaks and acts sympathetically about being poor. It should only contextualize his perspective. It’d argue that wealthy people making good faith…

When you play blackjack at the casino, it’s your choice if you hit or call. Robinhood decided not to let you hit.

There is a growing subset of the population that only wants reporters to tell them what they want to hear. This isn’t too different.

Arch just sounds like one of those guys who makes women uncomfortable by talking to them.

I think we’re well past a critical point in hot sauces, where any new sauce must justify its existence against the tried and true. I don’t think a Mountain Dew hot sauce really “passes mustard”.

Ian, are you registered to vote here? If you’re part of the Australian contingent, kindly keep your opinions on our politics to yourself. If you’re actually registered to vote here, then it’s time to stop feeling sorry for yourself, grow up, and enthusiastically work with the people whose values most closely align…

I dunno what kind of “bump” occurred here before the video started, but it seemed like she was trying to get out of the situation respectfully and the people with the cameras wouldn’t let her go and called her a racist a bunch of times. For what? Video doesn’t show. They try to leave and something happens to cause the…

Heard they got Leslie Jones.

From your article - “Pitchford told Digital Trends that Gearbox’s recent complaint is more about “goodwill” than any minimal profit the Duke Nukem franchise might bring in these days.”

I’ve been watching the NBA off and on for a long time. I’d take 92-94 Knicks style grit and grind over today’s Houston Rockets.