Adam Sessler trying to defend his comments by saying that people are being misogynist to criticize him for his racism is pretty fuckin’ rich. I’ve encountered the man once in my life, at an early PAX East, and he spent the five minutes I was near him harassing my spouse and their sibling over their cosplays. He asked…

This is not the first time I thought the show was very, very sad. But it is the first time where I felt like that sadness was kind of purposeless. It felt a lot more like it was just going out of its way to make the viewer feel bad than anything else. Nothing was communicated to me except “man, this world is just...…

No, they’re taking it out because the ESRB is a reactionary, puritanical organization that often tries to punish game makers it sees as trying to skirt their cryptic regulations.

My assumption was that the terrified backpedaling to make sure to remove it would be because the ESRB could re-rate the game as AO based on this, and it could become a Big Deal and force the ESRB’s hand because of the wide coverage. If it broke out of niche industry reporting and got a write-up where someone’s mom…

It’s deeply stupid. There seems to be someone at the ESRB who will have a stroke if they so much as hear the word “labia.”

This one was a favorite of mine.

After she left, I remember hating myself for driving her away. I was alone at home with the kid and I think I found my center in time. My partner was helpful, but I am not sure why I shut my partner out.

What are you talking about? The graphic novel was a National Book Award finalist. It won a Printz and an Eisner and a bunch of other awards. It was a really big deal, and it’s about the experiences of being a Chinese-American teen feeling split between two identities and belonging to neither. It isn’t pandering to…

The WARN Act is federal US law that requires 60 calendar days of notice before mass layoffs or closings. It just only applies to companies with more than 100 employees, and there are a handful of exceptions to it. It’s one of a handful of exceptions to Right to Work laws.

I’m listening to the eleventh vote now (McCarthy has already lost), and definitely heard Ruppersberger of MD vote with an extremely “Leeeeeeroy JENkins!” tone when he voted for Jeffries. It’s not impossible, but looking at a photo of him I have to wonder if it was coincidence.

See, I fucking really like Haneke/Funny Games and really dislike Roiland. That might just be me, though--and I’ll be honest, I’m always going to be biased towards the creator who can be up his own butt WITHOUT also being an NFT bro.

The idea of a game which mocks you, the player, for expecting a traditional structure while also playing out a traditional structure (but also saying “fuck you!” throughout) sounds just… kind of annoying. It sounds extremely Justin Roiland being proud of himself for making a fart noise and doing his one voice again.

I know the whole game here is personifying and ascribing agency to these algorithms until we can justify art theft. But no, those chatbots didn’t “decide” that their language was inefficient. They didn’t “decide” anything, because they are not agents or actors, they are programs. More complex than other programs,…

It’s not singling her out??? It’s an article about her recent behavior????? I did not choose at random to talk about Sinema specifically below an unrelated article???????

I don’t really see any of them as all THAT significant, but I’m a bit of a genre anarchist to begin with. If it sort of makes you ~feel~ like it’s a roguelike, I’m not gonna take the time to get mad at anyone calling anything a roguelike.

You will be unsurprised to learn that this take is just as wrong about Bastion/Transistor/Pyre/Hades as it is about Final Fantasy 1-3.

Who gives a shit about fit at any size? The problem is not when or if someone is fit. A person does not cease to be a person whether or not they are fit. That’s the thing of it. That’s what matters. A person is not less of a person for being less fit, and the very idea that someone’s physical fitness or lack thereof…

“Most politicians are corrupt; therefore, it is naive to spend ten seconds writing a derisive comment on the internet when someone is corrupt.”

I’ve heard four or five different ways to distinguish between roguelikes and rogue-lites, including progressing between runs, the use of obscured information (e.g. potions with an effect you can only discern by drinking them), turn-based action, and more. It just doesn’t seem like a valuable way to distinguish between…