Fuck Don Mattrick and the rest of the douchebags Microsoft had at that time- they passed over Phil and Major Nelson to install that awful team of yes men. I agree they’ve righted the ship (too late though) but they have a chance to really get it right next time. Xbox360 was waaaaaay to successful and they drank…

I dunno if we really wanna hope for that......no competition means the winning console maker doesn’t have to do jack shit to improve because we will have no choice in the matter. I’m personally terrified of the consequences to consoles being totally interchangeable for the masses

Yes, but how many games would actually be cross-compatible with the Switch and the Xbox One and PS4? The number of titles is going to be relatively limited, so it still comes down to “Where are my friends going to be?” and “What first party titles interest me the most?” In this case, it is in Sony’s interest to try to…

This has to have come from Microsoft. Since last year when they announced the Minecraft patch that finally showed up now, they’ve brought up cross-console play in every interview or PR piece where they could cram it in.

Realistically, what does Sony have to gain from enabling crossplay with xbox? One of the major deciding factors for people as to what console to buy is “what system will my friends be on?” Since the ps4 is dominating the marketplace, that’s an incentive to choose them over xbox. Going crossplay removes that incentive.…

D’aww this is cute.

remember when there was the rumor that microsoft was buying/merging with Nintendo? that would have been crazy.

EVERLASTING PEACE! LONG LIVE THE CONSOLE WARS

I may be flippant, but I’m anything but dismissive. I’m simply pointing out that if a person wants to seek out offense, it is easily done because if you frame it properly, you can find it literally everywhere. Even in the well intentioned words of an advocate against possible offense. If we are all policing each…

They don’t want discussion, or to educate. They want to beat their chest and prove how much more enlightened they are, even if they have to make up thoughtcrimes to crow about.

Comparing the plight of segregated black people to this situation is idiotic beyond reason and a textbook example of a strawman argument. You also clearly suffer from a reading impediment, since I only said my country doesn’t have a black/white racism conflict, bot other forms of racism. You do realize there are other…

Yes.... kinda. There are still a lot of cultures (like Japan) that use swastikas because it was and is a part of their culture. Of course it’s not the swastika that got turned 45 degrees with all its arms pointing right but there are still swastikas that people use that have no racist meaning.

Yes call a spade a spade. But don’t make something racist when it’s not. The character was a ball of hair. If you think it looks like something else then your the racist one. Racism will never die if people are constantly getting butt hurt or the smallest thing. And also just because Sony is a big company doesn’t make…

So are we just going to say that an all-black character with bold lips is never going to be okay again because of how it was used in the past? It’s clearly not meant to be racist at all. Will we ever stop being so sensitive about it? Or is that kind of “imagery” just banned forever?

Yup, because we can only tackle one thing at once.

Pretty much. I can probably see a lot of people in the board room rolling their eyes over it. I think it’s similar to “black Pete”, Santa’s helper in Netherlands area. He’s black because he’s the one who goes down the chimney and gets covered in soot. Ends up looking like “blackface”, even though we’re talking about…

I’m familiar with it, but this still just seems out of hand. It’s just a black and white character. In printed format where you only have black and white, how else are you supposed to show features like eyes and a mouth?

Except that no one’s tackling anything right now. So unless you do something about real racism and bigotry, I don’t give a shit about a stupid mascot in japan.

So it’s no longer possible to make a character whose color scheme is black and white without it being racist? Come on. Is Mr. Game and Watch racist since he’s all black?

2018: where things interpreted as racist are now considered racist, regardless of original intent.