Seems a bit much. They were both single, divorced, long time collaborators, execs. It’s not great but this feels out of proportion. 

Meanwhile Dialga is just...

Calling the cops NOW.

Is it the players putting the Reddit mods in a difficult position? Or the game devs and publishers who release incomplete and broken games literally every year?

I really appreciate your insight and love the article. I also appreciate there are people who enjoyed this film, I’m unfortunately not one of them and consider this to easily be the weakest entry in the franchise

“They wanted the pretty white people to ride off into the sunset together,”

“What if thats not the case? What if there’s no reason for them to have been white this entire time? What if it wasn’t supposed to be that way, and was instead just lazy? What if there was never an intention for it to be depicted that way?”

I mean, I’m talking in terms of real world parallels. So for example in The Elder Scrolls, Cyrodiil is equivalent to say America/Europe, Skyrim to Scandinavia and then there’s Hammerfell with its mix of Middle Eastern, Asian and African cultures. So, if that applies to WoW (I have never played and don’t even have a…

This is a really reductive take on this, which is par for the course at the moment with Kotaku. Just a hot take that glances over the issue and panders to nothing and no one in particular.

the Ubisoft co-founder said the backlash to the Quartz announcement was expected, and likened it to initial public outcry over previous new developments in the games industry like DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes.

I mean that trailer you linked literally says it’s inspired by Céline Dion but thanks for cracking the case. 

I didn’t ask for this...

Yup. I remember. The Root also embarrassingly fell for it to. In fact they still act like this was some vague mystery thats the cops' fault and that they weren’t taken. Its very embarrassing.

And it’s still truly baffling to me that otherwise intelligent people believed this for a second.

Just because you’re a first time offender doesn’t mean there’d be no conviction, just likely a lesser sentence...
You seriously saying he shouldn’t be punished just because you think white people wouldn’t? If anything he has made it harder for real victims of racism to be believed.

JK Rowling is not a transphobe and 99% of normal people either don’t know what she said or don’t care.

I count two mentions of transphobia in this article. Surprisingly restrained, AV Club. 

I can’t hate keighley because of all he’s done to bring the medium into the mainstream... But he accomplished that mostly through corporate sponsorship and partnership. He can’t go any further, and that’s why the game awards are not the “oscars of videogames” (even though they so desperately want to be).

This comment didn’t age well. You DO realize the “internet mob” 99% of the time relies on doxxing and death threats, right? Think about that next time you want to post something like this, ESPECIALLY when the entire thing ended up being fake anyway.

Honestly hard to imagine how the Grammys could implement a system where they barred artists for such transgressions. As far as I know, Manson hasn’t been charged with a crime (though he faces multiple lawsuits) and Louis CK isn’t accused of committing a crime, he’s been accused of (and admitted to) sexual misconduct.…