People who prefer the PS2's “quality” visuals are the same people who think VHS offers an experience you can’t get with Blu-ray and that the distortion and low fidelity fuzzing sounds on ancient LP’s are better than than crystal clear audio where you can hear all the instruments.

So Blizzard wants their best pro players treated like actual people and employees of a company rather than “just gamers who should feel lucky to even be involved”.

I kind of wanted to give you shit for a weird analogy, and then I realized that this is actually pretty perfect. The idea that its too much hassle to help people is downright stupid. If you hear someone bashing someone else, step in and say something.

Having an ally to either tank, heal, or DPS those toxic comments is incredibly helpful.

Sure, they may keep mouthing off, but being willing to

A lot of commenters have suggested that in previous articles. A thick skin is necessary for online gaming, don’t get me wrong, but these commenters fail to understand that harassment in games is a reflection of a real-life culture that pays women less in the workplace, resists healthcare coverage of birth control (but…

I agree with the idea of being an ally in these situations (ones that pop up far too often), but I am also worried that chiming into these scenarios with jackasses online will just result in more aggravation and shouting matches with them. If they’re already big enough tools to behave this way at the outset, I doubt…

Protip: if you have ever written or said the following phrases or something similar in regards to online harassment:

Well, I believe this game will have multiplayer, based on the fact that on the Switch’s reveal trailer (back in October), you see a girl playing the new Mario game on her house, then she goes to a rooftop party to keep playing with her friends, giving one of her Joycon to another girl. I presume she kept playing Mario…

Yup, we do. My gf and I just finished our time with Destiny.. The Last of Us is this week (she’s never finished it), then on to Uncharted 1-3 before 4's DLC comes out.

No, gtfo my Mario. This dad needs some mustachioed sugar in his life.

This bodes well for Nintendo. We’ve left the “Nintendo is doomed” comments and returned to the days of “Nintendo is for kids.” Once we hear about the other consoles having “blast processing” again, we’ll know Nintendo’s comeback is complete.

Four? So is the XOX a next gen system or a stupid mid-gen upgrade? If it’s the latter that would be three generations. MS sure did screw up the marketing on this on top of not announcing exclusives and making the price completely stupid.

Uhh... why are they considering the Xbox One X to be a “new generation”? It doesn’t have any of its own games. It’s a Xbox One with extra power. It’s not a new generation at all.

It is not really as simple as that. Even if you removed all the radicals that truly desire gaming to be a male-exclusive hobby, we would STILL be incredibly polarized. It comes with the development of the medium, really; gamers in general have just started coming to grips with the fact that their favorite pastime can…

Yeah at least back then we were banded against a common enemy. Then the assholes started attacking women and minorities for having the audacity to want to have representation in video games.

I wonder how many folks will take a swing at this and miss the implicit message; my guess is that the number will be fairly low, given that the initial audience is likely to be comprised primarily of folks who were already on board with the message the parody is trying to send—but still.

As for the existential…

“‘Last shower’ will await you. But there’s a difference: you can get out of this room alive.”

Very cool! So am I and this pleases me greatly! Can’t wait to see more from you! Welcome indeed! :)

Always love to see more trans writers. Welcome aboard!

I am!