So a business (WoTC) fucks up and you end up the legitimate owner of something ahead of time.

Damn. I was expecting people defending their right to consume media in the comments, but damn is that a lot of straight up transphobia down here.

How do you put pressure on Youtube though? If a great many youtubers strike, you essentially see a sea of scabs stepping up to fill that hole. Youtube doesn’t care about the reputational damage.

What’re you gonna do if your favourite content creator moves to what, Facebook? Twitch? Is a significant percentage of the…

I feel like this is a good change for the healer Moiras, because it allows them to operate more at a distance, with more healing to dispense and less incentive to hare off and get distracted by closing in for a quick top-up.

But it changes literally nothing for the more dps focused Moiras. They’re never running out of…

Even better question is if Stake.com has to roll out the big bucks anymore, or if they’ve sufficiently captured him that xQc’s not even thinking about the Stake deal when he does stuff like this.

The most successful Vtubers are still dominated by agency Vtubers though. If only through how they bake in collaborations, and share resources.

Whether the agency catapults them to success, or if already successful independent Vtubers banding together to take advantage of those effects.

For every Snuffy or Juniper,…

Its not particularly offensive on the surface. Sure, there’s a level of dehumanization and pandering to it.

But the fact that this never got red-flagged by any of the multiple people involved in the process? Insane. It says things about the diversity and competencies inherent within the current system. Goddamn.

Could be that most of the fans who grew up on Pokemon are so dazzled by the fact that finally, finally, Game Freak is ‘caving in’ to what fans have wanted for ages. Fans who grew up and wanted the Pokemon franchise to grow up with them in to something more grittier and ‘realistic’. Its just that those fans span almost…

Came looking for Liar Game as well, heartily disappointed.
If people want something that hews close to Liar Game, there’s also the Korean gameshow The Genius, which went on for 3 seasons but had a little bit of controversy in the beginning for hewing a liiittle too close to its inspiration.

Any A-List celebrity would have been a likewise step too far. Because it’d mean they just wanted the glam, instead of making an actual good product. There are personal biases where I might make an exception, casting Jack Black as Donkey Kong is hilarious for instance, but for the most part that’s it.

I’m pretty sure…

I feel like the conversation can get so much more interesting when its about actually good media that either does Japanese culture well, or poorly. Like Ghosts of Tsushima or the ads for the Tokyo Olympics.

When its just a run-of-the-mill flick with meh stereotypes, the conversation just ends up circling the fact that…

I’ve forgotten where I sourced this, but the case I know of was when two anime youtubers (of American and Japanese-Australian nationalities respectively) came out to their fans as dating, they both lost either 30% or 70% of their viewership overnight. Which was surprising in the moment because you normally hear about…

According to Twitch, swimwear is allowed on streams, just that they have to be in an appropriate setting. If Twitch wanted to ban swimwear, they would/should ban swimwear.

The part of the controversy that gets my goat, and what I think is the true core of the issue, is the fact that Twitch finds the idea of clarifying…

It seems infuriating, because the assumption is based on the fact everyone assumes it would benefit Twitch.

What benefit could Twitch receive from shrouding their guidelines and inconsistently applying the banhammer? Outside of sending a clear message to Twitch partners to diversify, diversify, diversify. Create a…

Ok yea, this image is pretty amazing. Maybe there’d be less (expected) blowback if the article lead with this instead of the worst of the 4 Vogue pictures? In terms of execution anyways.

Good for them. Seems like a win-win for the consumer as one Giant corp spends money to gain marketshare against another Giant corp.

Either this fails and we all get some free games. Or the Epic store improves enough or spends enough to gain some marketshare against Steam, and Steam is forced to roll its eyes and do…

The sass in the first two paragraphs makes me smile. While I look for very different things in my MTG content article content itself, this kind of sass is appreciated in general, and made me scroll up to make a note of who the article’s author was :)

Given that this type of sentence structure doesn’t seem to be the norm, and given its a pretty serious topic at hand:

The only thing I can (barely) compare this to, from someone who has not experienced any kind of serious abuse , that could have potentially resulted in that kind of output (and may be a useful guide for…

>Yeah I’ve never been entirely clear about when they intend to sell.

Based on what I’ve gleaned from the subreddit over the past two weeks: No idea about DFV and the initial wave of people convinced by him that GameStop was truly going to make a comeback.

But for most of the people who jumped on later, the intention to…

Isn’t u/jartek voraciously hated on the sub for trying to monetize WSB a long time ago?

Picked that up even as an outsider from before this whole GME fiasco. Maybe that’s a justification after the fact, but I’d never heard the moderating hate speech angle until very recently, via his interview. Don’t know what’s the…