I have no issue with companies pushing multiple different skins for a little bit extra as long as there are no gameplay advantages given.

Pay-2-win is never fun for anyone.

“Incessant social justice seekers” isn’t how I remember it.

This is a totally normal, well-adjusted way to respond to someone else’s life threatening illness and closure of business.

This is the answer.  If you’re going to use the service, you have to buy into tipping as wage.  If you want to protest it, don’t use the service.  

If you don’t like their business model, you could... not use their service?

The lesson we all need to learn from this and NieR: Automata is that when somebody asks you, “Why is this character design horny?”, it’s perfectly acceptable to answer “Because I like it.”

The reason she’s a fan favorite, I think, is on account of her great character arc. She starts that way for sure, but over the course of the adventure, and the more you interact with her, the more her character evolves. Her character softens some and the arrogance turns to a sort of nobility, her disdain to…

The most common(and generally, the only) reason Karlach would ever leave your party is if you choose to raid the Grove and kill the refugees.

Karlach is a Golden Retriever and absolutely the best party-member in the whole game! Delete your entire save file and start over you heartless monster!

It’s almost as if some people like things that you don’t.

Counterpoint: they taste good.

Extremely weird and problematic take to automatically say sex and sexual assault. Sex and love are *the* most universal things as a part of the human experience

sex and sexual assault

Why should sex not be represented in games?

Nobody bats an eye when Blizzard, or EA, or Naughty Dog, or Bioware, or almost every other developer on the planet creates derivative content...

...it’s a little wordplay in the least critical part of the article.

I don’t know anyone under 60 that doesn’t know DTF. OTT i can maybe accept, but it’s still pretty ubiquitous.

this is a nuts take. you’re inserting your own manufactured outrage where it has no business. You’re literally equating being DTF with harassment or worse. That’s absolute nonsense.

“consent be damned” is a *really* weird thing to have imagined and added in there yourself.

Complains about a thought out article discussing an attempt to play a game in a non-standard way.  Kotaku commenters at their typical.  lol