I'm not begrudging the notion that they got proportionally large bonuses or even that they get paid a healthy amount... but - really - does anyone in the world need to pull in $13m in a year? I know that's relatively peanuts compared to athletic salaries and what the Modern Warfare series has made in profits - but…

Performance-based industries (read: creative) aren't averse to paying mostly through bonuses instead of salary. I know it seems weird, but it's just a different compensation paradigm. In a way, it keeps the devs on a tighter leash, as they know they'll only make the big bucks for actually putting out a high-end…

"part of recognizing that we're privileged is that privileged people don't get to define what is a legit conversation and what is not,"

I'm not sure what that fallacy's called, but that's essentially the basis of scientific thinking. (The opposite, of course, is religious thinking, which is the faith-based assertions defined by Kierkegaard's notions of absurdity... which is basically what Scalzi's asking people to believe.) Considering that the…

More or less, that's about it.

"4. This is not an attack; it is a call to responsibility. No matter who you are, you have some level of privilege based on the skin, the family, the gender identity, the sexual orientation, etc. you were born into. Recognize it, and be responsible about how you use or misuse it. There is *nothing you can do to change…

"4. It ends with a bunch of self-congratulatory back-patting."

"Well, that's up to you, isn't it? What I'm doing is pointing out a thing. What you do with that thing is your decision.

I like the music, but it's way too busy to solve any puzzles to. Ya gotta have something with a simple melody that doesn't have too much of a "wall of sound" or "too many notes" effect to it. The original soundtrack versus this reimagined on is like the difference between the Sherlock soundtrack and The Twilight Sad.…

"One thing I'm really getting tired of is the spoken or unspoken assertion that action-heavy games can or do not have 'intellectual depth.'"

Good to see that Jenova Chen and I harp on the same things...

"It could be the best article written on Kotaku and it would still piss people off."

Yeah. That's it. According to this article, at least.

"How do you change this? By acknowledging your privilege and being aware of it."

The trouble with "awareness" campaigning with privilege theory is that, if you do it wrong, you piss a lot of people off. Whether you're saying the right things or not, it's just as important to realize how you're saying these things. I don't think a lot of consideration went into that - I dunno, maybe it did, and it…

Wow... Kotaku managed to post this comment completely in the wrong place... Huh.

Two things:

I hope you're not joshin' me. (And there's one I don't like...)

Them's dueling words. Pistols at dawn, ten paces?

Oh, I certainly don't oppose the concepts of "progressive," "avant garde," or "vanguardist" - "progressive," in particular, likely doesn't get the critical real estate it deserves.