I may be over-attributing the bigotry of many to one person, but Persona 3, 4 and 5 were all directed by the Katsura Hashino, who also directed the egregiously transphobic Catherine. He’s still at Atlus, but directing games for a different team. I’m sort of hoping that with him out of the lead seat, these games could…

It’s not “Joker can’t be gay” that made the game homophobic, it was all the homophobia that made it (and the couple previous entries) homophobic.

People complaining about this are either doing so in bad faith (unlikely) or they’re being useful idiots for the AMPTP (extremely likely).

Your numbers are outright incorrect.

Oh c’mon, Hasbro isn’t responsible for everything bad and Wizards everything good. That’s ridiculous. The FIRST example I gave was Orion Black, and that’s all Wizards. Wizards brought Mearls back to D&D before he left.

Look at the art that people noticed is clearly AI-generated (not all of which is here). It’s VERY clearly AI. An art director would 100% have to be asleep behind the wheel to not have noticed. Plus, look what they did to artist April Prime, whose concept art was run through AI for this same book. Wizards’ denial is…

Looking at some of the images, I struggle to imagine how they couldn’t have known that it’s AI-generated (even if earlier versions weren’t). And the artist advertises himself as making AI art. I don’t see a realm where this work was approved without Wizards knowing it was AI.

I absolutely hate that this hobby is so overwhelmed by a company that seems addicted to making the worst possible choices at every single turn.

This is so miserable. I’m gutted by this. Fuck capitalism, go home.

I mean, it’s the Dave Chapelle shit that’s actually unlikable. The stories Mulaney tells onstage may be true (may be), but he’s playing a character up there. It’s all an act for laughs, that’s what comedy is. But putting your brand behind Dave fucking Chapelle in his TERF era? That’s not an act, that’s not blurring…

This is a pretty big misinterpretation of what is meant by the phrase “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.” It doesn’t mean you stop trying.

I don’t know who Dunkey is, and found the whole bit vaguely weird and really off-putting. Like, it was a bit, right? I genuinely couldn’t tell. Would it have been funny to see them be just kind of briefly uncomfortable if I followed his content?

You are not missing out!

“Either loved or hated” seems kind of par for the course for Illumination. Which is weird to me, because some of the positive reviews (I’m almost invariably in the “hated it” category) of their films makes me feel like the reviewer saw a different movie. It’s very odd to me and I’m not entirely sure why it works like…

If anyone out there finds themselves still in the market for a gaming table but suddenly less excited about owning a Wyrmwood, I’ve had an exceptionally positive experience with Uniquely Geek.

Trans people have been moving to arm themselves, and making the very vocal (and difficult to argue) case that more strict gun control laws will only apply to the already-disenfranchised, just like the abortion bans do.

https://www.swantower.com/2015/02/04/the-absence-of-women/

After escaping slavery, the main character gets a cush job working for his slavers. You’re probably not going to convince me that this is a book which actually reckoned with its own depiction of slavery. I gave up midway through book 2 before book 3 came out, and if the excuse is “you have to wait until book 3 to get…

Seriously. SERIOUSLY.

Y’all. This is genuinely unhinged.