Which particular conservative views do you want to see positively reported on here?

“The thing is: not everyone is capable of feeling empathy, and the way a materialistic society that values things over lives and well-being, it’s indirectly encouraged to be a sociopath instead.”

The grammar of my comment doesn’t flow exactly because Kotaku for some reason either strips out links and then moves the text somewhere else, or just can’t handle links in general. The line “Remember Tmartn...” should be further into the comment, and hot-linked to a BBC story talking about the ethical issues revealed…

Do you know what’s so, soooo sad about this story? It’s actually a step up from where we were a few years ago. At least these scumbags are relatively honest and (some of them) are admitting they’re being paid to gamble on these sites. But remember TMarTn and ProSyndicate? Back in 2016, they were not only advertising…

I am so god damn sick of the unprincipled, amoral greed that is using gaming and adjacent communities to target the young and vulnerable for pump and dump scams or similar; it’s not just the fact that even many of the targets will be woefully unprepared to understand why these schemes are so sinister and they’re just…

Good news. And folks, take this as a reminder that activism works. It’s often depressingly slow, so slow that the original people involved may long have moved on to other concerns; but it’s enough that people care enough to stand up, say no, and at least keep the baton in play, even if someone else ends up running it…

Just thought I’d drop in again and say I quickly skim-read your comment history. Most amusing, and exactly what I expected it to be; abusive, immature, and hilarious in just how much the reality differs from how you’d like to imagine yourself.

I don’t, and can’t have an opinion on how accurate with regards to safe and sensitive bee handling the videos are, as I’ve no experience in beekeeping; but it’s certainly the case that she’s been getting an enormous amount of coverage across the media recently; it’s almost every day that one of her videos seem to hit…

I won’t praise NMS as a game that much, but do you know what is genuinely fantastic about it?

You do realize that this time period is part of production time, even for AAA titles right?

“Because nobody is allowed to have a different opinion unless money is involved. I’m fucking tired of people shitting on other peoples’ parades for their own amusement, shitlord. Kotaku used to have decent reporting and decent commentators.”

And with that, you prove you’re not only not an honest responder, but that you’re literally denying objective reality to defend the game.

Except you can’t do that if you’re in the Horizons client, can you? You need to purchase Odyssey to access the separate instance, just like Elite players without Horizons couldn’t go down to planet surfaces...

“by highlighting only one population, the post mistakenly left the impression that we were politically aligned with one side.”

I think it just shows the problem of how poor we do as a society in educating people in logic and responsibility; An argument that goes “Thing X doesn’t do Y enough” isn’t an argument against Y by definition. Modern cynicism might mean we presume X doesn’t believe in Y, but that shouldn’t change the position on…

If this were any other car than a Tesla, it wouldn’t have a trash fire of a CEO constantly hyping it, making ridiculous claims for the technology whilst deliberately putting down public transport (which is the real solution to clean transit), whilst spreading COVID denialism and removing any environmental benefit of…

Hong Kong was ceded to the British during the Opium Wars, wars literally fought to force China to legalise British sales of Opium on the mainland. Hong Kong was claimed to be a British owned island from which the United Kingdom could trade, and launch further attacks from.

I had a quick fiddle with Occulus Home when I first set up my Rift, and it acted as a nice place to test the hand controllers and poke around; but I think I’ve only ever been back once since, saw there was a huge set of store items that required some research to discover how to unlock, thought “Nah, can’t be…

Just some wider perspective on this, to help inform some of the questions people have in comments below;

Except that doing public mod work is often the way into the industry full time; like the black hat/white hat approach to hiring hackers to run security, the games industry tends to poach from public works.