I kinda-sorta disliked them before the Durant trade, but it was more a product of the Curry hype, and the fact that they seemed so inevitable. It’s hard for me to root for the favorite, which is I think the case for most people, unless they happen to be fans of the favorite. Now I don’t like them because of the Durant…

The Celtics were shit before they brought in KG and Ray Allen. The Warriors were a championship-caliber team (and still are) without Durant. They played stellar basketball, as always, when he was out with that knee injury. Almost looked better than when Durant was on the court. This is the difference. Only fanboys…

Sure, but Draymond, Klay, and Steph were who they are now when Durant jumped ship to join them. Not everything has to be about the narrative, but few in this world (other than dyed-in-the-wool fanboys) enjoy watching Yankees-esque teams that are stacked for maximum front-running effect.

Of course. Rockstar has some of the most polished releases in the industry, especially relative to others in the notoriously glitch-prone open-world genre. This is because they pour so much production value into the games and are willing to delay in order to get it right.

This sentiment doesn’t actually make much sense with Rockstar’s track record.

Jesus, this is looking gorgeous. Rockstar floors me with every new game.

Speaking of bullying, Ruby Rose says the only reason she inserted herself into this hideous narrative is because she was bullied in high school.

C. Christine Fair is a patriot and a hero.

Worth noting, just so we’re clear that C. Christine Fair is no human-rights-upholding dove herself, via her Wikipedia page:

Why do I want to hear him say that? Because for a long time no one said it. Because even now, when I suggest that I to deal with certain shit because I’m a member of a less-privileged group, regular people tell me I’m either lying or that I’m oversensitive. Failing to acknowledge the problem is... kind of demeaning.

When it comes to Overwatch, saying “Obviously the cast is diverse, that’s just good design,” is like saying you’re colorblind: it’s completely ignoring how people of color DO experience discrimination. “Our goal was inclusivity and open-mindedness” is better, but it’s still not validating the problem.

Well that’s where our opinions differ. I don’t think the way toward a better society is to create some fantasy world in which people with bad values simply become an underclass that can’t find work or participate at all in society. Not only would I not want to see this happen on a moral basis (even people with bad…

I guess setting a map in Iraq is old news so it isn’t political but if they decided on Syria it would’ve been? That’s hard for me to take in but that’s on me.

I’m not sure that there’s any such thing as “pure game design” once you have characters (and settings) with personalities instead of pong paddles.

I guess I don’t know what the calculus is to deem a conversation primarily design vs primarily political, since I can actually imagine what is essentially the conversation you posit.

Those games having a diverse cast being from different parts of the world isn’t something politically motivated by the games’ designers after all. No one ever tries to talk about their use of inclusivity as some political act.

Feigning a moderate or apolitical stance seems like the best decision to appease idiots.

It’s a shame that ideas such as varied characters and positive world development are deemed political and negative.

I never argued that they lucked into it. What I argued is that this is increasingly becoming the contemporary definition of good game design, that you think about these things as a matter of course, not because you are especially politically predisposed to doing so, or because people in the community have prodded you…

And yet, I think it’s pretty awesome for Kaplan to make the statements he has, because they demonstrate that this is first-order thinking on pure game design terms, as opposed to some personally motivated move on the part of himself or his team. This is a sign that diversity and inclusion are becoming part of the…