Unpopular opinion maybe, but is being sleazy in a podcast 7+ years ago really worthy of cancelling this guy from all employment opportunities?

Anyone remember Deep Blue? We should just get them to host Jeopardy

*incriminating evidence of a tryst with Microsoft’s Tay and nazi radicalization ensues*

Can we just hire Levar Burton and get it over with?

Yeah, it’s wild that in a game whose structure begets a whole bunch of branching scenarios, there are only two that actually progress the story: drugging your wife and torturing the “cop,” or convincing your wife that you’re in a time loop. Everything else is superfluous. And then even THAT is made irrelevant by the…

Its so bad! It is *phenomenally* bad. Outer Wilds is probably my favorite game of all time, so coming into this I was a bit excited and its just... An absolute mess. Also, I say this for a line but it bears repeating, holy shit its stiff to play.

I think something else that needs to be mentioned is how shallow the entire thing is mechanically. I played for about an hour-and-a-half and realized that I was kind of getting into the puzzle end game.

Twitch chat is a poor litmus test for what a reasonable response is.

“ others have argued that the content around emotional manipulation should be made optional altogether”

Jesus, can we just stop with the sanitizing and safe spacing of everything, especially art? “oooh I’m so triggered it would be nice if Friday the 13th didn’t have murders and show breasts”, “oh no this song called…

Honestly it is sufficient and always was - I totally get not wanting to play a game that contains those things, but if you’re sensitive to them, “may include” and “does include” shouldn’t really be the difference that makes you not play the game. If you bought the game based on being ok with the initial content…

See also “we couldn’t find the flashing lights warning for Cyberpunk, even though VIDEO GAMES ARE MADE OF LIGHTS THAT FLASH,” or that one game that included a slider to hide spiders because of people vocally complaining about seeing spiders. Folks are babies.

So, the content warning accurately reflects the game's content, but people made bad assumptions about that warning and are now mad at the dev and want the dev change the game itself? 

There is a difference between showing fit hero types and sexualizing them to the extreme. For example, no actual person would dungeon crawler in panties and high heels.  Sexy people can wear pants and flats too. 

I agree. I mean, one of the EARLIEST pioneers of story driven PC games was Roberta Williams. Gaming didn’t start out as a ‘boys only’ club.

I’m guessing a lot of that stems both from ‘bro culture’ and the active discouragement in our society of girls in STEM - both classes and careers.

I think it’s cyclical. The devs on the panel were emboldened by the crowd, but the crowd had been groomed by years and years of WoW where almost every female character looked like a sexual fantasy of one sort or another. From their point of view she was basically complaining that water was wet and the sky was blue,…

Truly pressuring people to resign for extramarital affairs

So this guy had perfectly consensual affairs. Why is it on kotaku and why is he even losing his job over it? It’s none of our business.

It does raise a concern about the slippery slope of manufacturing news stories. You rightfully acknowledge you can’t assign ill intent because you don’t know the context. Does writing an article that boils down to “people assume someone meant something, they responded they didn’t mean that, and no one has context to…

May be wearing fur coats is wrong today, but 60 000 years ago it meant life or death for half the worlds population. Same for clubbing baby seals, clubbing them is wrong for today but before there were blades and guns it meant your family ate tonight or not.

I read the conclusion entirely differently. To the degree that this article criticizes him, it’s more about how he bragged about doing all of this as recently as 2012, as opposed to criticizing him for what he actually did back in 1974.

Loved the article, but I don’t understand your conclusion. it seem like you already knew you wanted to paint Bushnell in a bad light, regardless of what the women you interviewed said/thought of him...?