The robots are adopting human aesthetics and behaviors without understanding them: the robots don’t know *why* humans would dream of being farmers, or fishermen, but the robots know that the humans felt such things were important, and so took after them.

I liked when the kitty got a bag stuck on its head. 

There aren’t any humans in the game at all, which I think is an important note when discussing the lack of Asian humans. None of us can look at the game and see people who look like us. (I’m not sure having the only humans left be Asian would have been an improvement, given the setting.) 

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

What does “grapple with its history” look like exactly?

I actually don’t think using a real life aesthetic makes you have “a responsibility to grapple with its history.” I see the rice hat idea is being a bit more questionable, but “they didn’t insert a painful history lesson about a real life community (that had nothing to do with the story of their game)“ is... a plus?

Yet this site name is Kotaku. If there is a sense of irony about “appropriation” being ignored here... *shrugged*

The fact this article is posted on an American gaming site named "KOTAKU" of all things reaches honestly an impressive level of irony. 

Can´t shake on how pretentious “Stray Falls Into The Usual Orientalism Pitfalls Of The Cyberpunk Genre” sounds for an effing 5 hour game about a cat.

It´s my fault for coming back to this site. I missed the Brian Crecente era, even if he was an asshat end called people asshats, but people wouldn´t cry and complain from…

Acting like this is some big surprise is disingenuous at best. Did you not watch any of the trailers? They made setting apparent from the outset. Claiming offense after the fact and ‘just wanting a cute cat game without...’ Is like going to KFC and wondering why you can’t buy a pastrami on rye.

I agree with the classic cyberpunk tropes and orientalism especially with the hats (“Get it? These are Asian robots...”), but I’m not so sure the developers had an obligation to explain the history. Sounds like the choice for the location was very much inspired from the perspective of a cat. It’s also a fictional…

This just in! Once again Kotaku nitpicks a game everybody seems to love!

It has been! It’s so weird to release it in a state like this, it’s not like there was a new Blade Runner movie or anything they had to peg the release to.

Nightdive’s reputation up to now has been pretty glowing so this is a huge disappointment, and I’d be curious to hear about the decision-making that led to this final product.

Monroe@Steam: ‘This is how the original game looks like when your eyes are full of tears in the rain.’

“62. futile quarrel, the dishonest discussion, and having the taste for dispute.”

I guarantee he’s already guilty of at least 12 of these 

He’d have to prove that they fired him specifically because of his religion, as religion is a protected class legally. Therefore, they can simply say he was fired/release due to conduct unbecoming of so and so, and he’d have to prove otherwise.

This is why it’s incredibly difficult to prove even actual discrimination…

Capital G “Gamers” are a plague upon our species.

“I don’t agree with how he went about it, but it’s his religion and we have to respect it just like people apart of the lgbtq community should be respected,”