Oh no......

To be fair, she accused a gym who kicked her out for streaming inside it of discriminating against her for being white and that she would have been allowed to film people without their permission if she was a “wealthy Saudi prince.”...

I think they really need to have a skip editorializing link to get to the actual content we want from reading the headline, or leave it for the end. If I already have the game that I care about the settlings, I don’t really care about the drama surrounding said game.

It’s a dumb series built around shooting nameless enemies, hunting animals for their skins, taking down forts, and blowing shit up. Personally, I really don’t need it to be more than that. 

Just like those nonsense “don’t pump gas for a day” boycotts, unless you’re willing to boycott for the long-haul (and take your audience with you) then don’t bother. They know you’ll be back tomorrow and ultimately the gesture appears performative over anything else you’re trying to achieve. Commit.

No there are 3 groups:

- normal people who think it’s nice he was able to buy a house in the city he lives in and understand how much money he makes because it’s been transparent the whole time.

- always online parasocial leftist weirdos who feel like they can dictate how and where he lives his life (he doesn’t know who…

I hope that these two Polygons come into contact with one another and annihilate each other matter-antimatter style, leaving nothing behind.

This is a nice longform article in the vein of Jason’s Schreier’s reporting of behind-the-scenes game development. Glad to see this article type again. Great job!

Kind of funny how we’ve done a 180 in terms of it used to being the bible thumping Maude Flanders of the world policing words and it’s now the people who’d consider themselves “liberal.”

This reeks of AI or Machine Learning. Or some algorithm pointed at 8chan and just banned the most used phrases.

Here’s how I mostly use game pass: I don’t have to put the disc in. It’s great!

“Controversially old-school” is a heck of a thing to slip in there when said controversy was, as evidenced by the link, largely limited to the AV Club itself.

I mean that’s every game ever though. That’s Doom Eternal. That’s Aliens. I understand that yes, they bothered to provide context to a multiplayer game. And that is where this is coming from. But for me personally, that context just doesn’t matter in a multiplayer only game. I just do not care.

They could have said nothing. That’s an option.

Kotaku has the most biased comment section I’ve ever seen. If you bring up a point that contradicts what the majority believes, even if you’re polite and right, you will be met with 2 different things. People telling you that you are stupid or people attacking who you are as a person. That’s on every single kotaku…

I dunno, I kind of see it as Ubisoft saying, “Nope, ain’t political,” then lighting the fuse.

Lol articles like these are why these devs jump through hoops. Let the art speak for itself and call it a day. If it has a message it will show it. If it’s just using current political tensions as set dressing then the analysis wasn’t worth the time.

Who cares? People just can’t have fun anymore 

The reason we decided to go down this route is so we could create a narrative with this world that we could create through the eyes of the No-Pats.

It’s a video game. The trailer is clearly over the top. As long as it’s fun, and the Devs aren’t being woke, the players don’t care. I’m not sure how this article can claim ‘the internet disagrees’ when the response from the gamer demographic has been largely positive..