I mean, I’m always down to visit Cabal Hedonismbot, so...

Everything I’ve read about this matters seems to situate nearly all of the risk on the developers’ end. So why does it seem like it’s largely the consumers, who are by far incurring the least risks here both short and long-term, that are not only being loudest about this “issue”, but also most likely to harass the…

I know this movie isn’t “good” or faithful to the loose thing we’re calling a “plot” for the original games, and by all accounts the process of making it was hellish and the directors were dicks, but I really appreciate how just friggin weird it is, like of all the ways Hollywood has fucked up what should have been an…

As others have said, I’ve never understood the major complaint about the oversexualization of women in video games to be about women’s body image and sense of self, but about men’s and especially young men’s developing views of women, and that’s had to do both with realistic physical expectations as well as belief in…

I didn’t say you were privileged because you were closeted. You were privileged because you grew up as a white man in a middle class liberal family and there is no greater demonstration of that privilege than getting on the internet to whine about how it’s the mean gays who think you “aren’t gay enough” that kept you…

No offense, but if you were so enormously lucky and privileged that you could choose to stay closeted out of fear of what other gay people would think of your type of gayness and not out of fear for your life, you are not representative of the large number of gay people and especially young people, who continue to…

This seemed like the exact sorts of group chat jokes me and my other gay friends would make about this man who is far richer and more privileged than we will ever be, coupled with legit critiques, because for us those jokes take some of the sting out of seeing such a politically hollow figure be the guy propped up as…

As someone who used to play (stopped due to expense mostly) my tips would be:

This is a really poor attempt to softsell misogyny as “actually it’s about ethics in medieval historical accuracy”.

I think what’s being lost in the (understandable) mockery of Steam faithfuls and gamers launching disingenuous critiques of the Epic store is that in the grand scheme of things, it’s actually not good for games that in an age where PC availability should make games *more* accessible, rather than less, exclusivity…

Higher ups taking home fat bonuses and celebrating their overwhelming financial success showing up in Jaguars and Teslas while the “rank and file” employees and contractors who are logging 60-70 hour work weeks with no paid leave or holidays are still commuting everyday in their shitty cars while receiving none of…

There are people in this very topic scolding a dude for wanting even the slightest positive acknowledgment for catching a potentially lawsuit-causing issue because “it was his job”. Funny how that logic never seems to be in play when higher ups are cashing fat bonus checks for doing the bare minimum their job requires…

Wish men had this much energy and anger for all the women who die at the hands of abusive men on the regular as they do for women who tweet that men are trash. Like if you’re so concerned about how men are perceived, maybe stop letting your friends, cousins, brothers, uncles, nephews, and roommates treat women like…

I would argue that while it’s less bad, models like Overwatch still produce problems.

The entire crux of your argument seems to be that measures which address one way to stop predatory behavior are bad because these companies will always prioritizes nickle and diming the consumer. That’s a really weak argument, as you’re essentially saying that anything less than a perfect solution is worthless and so…

I think one solution would just be to have an in-game lfg system honestly. So people aren’t able to just queue up for an activity and immediately get thrown into a raid with randoms, but they can more directly specify what they’re looking for and find deliberate and likeminded players that they’re on the same page…

Yeah, but in Destiny, Borderlands, hell even certain things in Anthem, they diversify the gameplay loop of “shoot enemies” by changing how a given weapon works and impacts your playstyle, so two weapons may both be grenade launchers, but the way an Edge Transit works is very different from how an exotic like Anarchy…

There’s also no quicker way to learn to hate the playerbase and the game than trying to do a raid with 7 other random people who are completely incapable of doing any activity more involved than “shoot at it until it dies”. I straight up stopped playing Destiny 2 during Season of the Drifter when I realized it was a…

Okay, but does the game’s use of this image, or its general approach to cyberpunk actually engage with the original critiques brought forth by cyberpunk about the way capitalism and corporate greed alienates humanity from itself while also destroying the world around us, or does it just “portray” cyberpunk only by…

The problem with claiming it’s “commentary on corporations” reducing individuals to objects is that you now have to explain why so much of your own marketing for said game seems content to also reduce the image of women’s bodies to objects for the sake of sales. Gonna claim it’s meta-commentary? Engaging in…