In a word: Representation.
People of all stripes want to see someone “like them” in glamorous venues. It’s the dream, the realization that you too can become great. It’s projection; wish-fulfilment. But liek children need heroes to aspire to be great, so do adults.
That SonicFox represents two oft-maligned constituency…

Even disregarding my Big Gay Crush for SonicFox, he’s honestly such a huge inspiration for the queer gaming community. The downside is that whether he likes it or not, he’s our representative and advocate now, especially in the FGC, which has been largely a (straight) boy’s club for far too long (Even the very few…

am not

We topped out at 50 today, and will tomorrow, as well.  I am as happy as an arctic pig in chilly shit.

Stories are products of cultures, so yes, you fucking well can.

I know I’m completely in the bloody minority, but I would just much rather see NON Disney versions of all these stories, be it this or Beauty and The Beast.

Hell, give me some Grimms’ fairy tales in all their dark weirdness, preferably with Guillermo del Toro at the helm. . . just anything but Disney.

“We’re going to change juuuuust enough to piss people off, but not enough to justify this existing in the first place.”

Faithful adaptations are great, but they need reasons to exist.

“It’s hard for me to resent a giant, publicly traded corporation for wanting to make more money.”
But shouldn’t you? If we’re reducing this to simple economics shouldn’t we, as consumers, want as much as possible for as little as possible and begrudge them every penny?  It seems fair that if we are going to excuse…

A fetus has a detectable heartbeat about 6 weeks into pregnancy. A roll of toilet paper: pretty much the moment it comes off the assembly line. If you wipe your butt with toilet paper... well... you’re basically a murderer!

Wrong. When people whisper among themselves about how dumb something is, they overinflate their views of what the rest of the world was doing. And we have extensive evidence (such as the facts presented here to rebut this speech) showing that the general field is still perpetuating sexism and discrimination. Public…

I mean, on one hand. Yeah, you’re completely right. On the other, these ones transcend “just books” for actual millions of people, and that’s not even taking the greater impact of the entire property on the pop culture hivemind. These books, movies, play, and whatever Pottermore actually is have a tremendous impact.…

Everyone wins! Well, except for actual representation, that is, and the people it matters the world to.

I mean if you play every single game then I can see that being exhausting. I imagine that is a small minority though. Books can get long too but authors probably dont think to themselves “I should make this shorter for the people who read every book that is released”

It is worth noting that during Giant Bomb’s stream they encountered a situation as Alexios where he resolves a situation by tricking a women into believing that he is the voice of a male god’s statue. Alex Navarro mentioned that during his playthrough as Kassandra during the same mission it was a notably different…

I also submit “The Renumbered Sequel” where games go from having number sequels to dropping the number only to suddenly start renumbering them. There’s two forms of this: one in which they pretend they never stopped numbering, like Mario Kart suddenly just having Mario Kart 7 and 8. The other is when they bring…

Developer during an interview: “We did a lot of research into Oedipus Rex, the Odyssey, crazy stuff like Lysistrata – all of these amazing Greek texts.” 

Actual game dialogue: “Hey, shit-face”.

Yeah same. It’s good to have a choice. :)

It’s not enough to rely on consumer pressure to get devs paid severances when they’re axed like this. Those who want to see companies do right by devs should be regularly supporting and encouraging unionization efforts, long before things ever come to a head.

It bothers me more than it probably should that she’s being called “Bowsette”. Peachette is a combination of “Peach” and “Toadette”. The Bowser/Peach combo should be “Bowseach”, “Peachser”, “Bowpeach”, or something along those lines.