Team Xecuter specifically was known for being predatorial. They sold hardware in places such as Latin America (where I happen to be from) and preyed upon people who thought it’d just let them play Switch games for free, instead, their hardware was ransomware that would brick your Switch if you didn’t pay a monthly…

no it isn’t. if you hate her that much you just shouldn’t consume her content. plain and simple. advocating stealing (not just from her but everybody involved) makes you the same or even worse (depends on pov).

I think that boycotting HP is less about inflicting actual fiscal harm— which as you’ve pointed out is moot— and more about forcing her out of the mainstream. Any hateful artist should have to reckon with that, and there should always be an asterisk appended to her works.

Also a lot of modern Lovecraft inspired work does engage with his awful racism and xenophobia - Lovecraft Country being one of many recent ones that included a TV show on HBO.

It’s interesting isn’t it? Characters in fiction associating themselves with villains to fulfill their wants while people in the real world convince themselves it might be ok to give an actual scumbag money. The in-fiction answer is the same as the real world answer: Slytherine will remain as long as people don’t mind…

Sad to see it go, but I got the full three years out of the deal and I was honestly surprised they let it go on as long as it did. Even $180 a year is still insane compared to just the games I would have bought day one otherwise.

“that are all connected”

It’s because of the way journalism is taught in college-level courses a lot of the time. Who are we studying in these classes? Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson — the great longform essayists. But all of them are personality-driven, whether they intended to be or not, who approach social…

Why is it always seem like everyone acts like it’s a dick move when Microsoft pulls this kind of shit but shrewd and savvy when Sony does it?

The LEGAL presumption is innocence. He got the benefit of that presumption with the domestic violence allegation, and now he’s a free man. Doesn’t mean people who aren’t a judge or an empanelled member of his jury can’t look at his other skeevy behavior and draw their own conclusions.

I mean, there’s still all that horrific shit of him sliding into underage girls DMs and telling them they’re hot jailbait.

Why? What does it matter? Do you ever disconnect your console or computer (whatever you’re playing on) from the internet anyway?

meme stocks and crypto

Nothing "bit" about it. I wouldn't have clicked through on a more honest headline.

It’s become vogue lately for self-proclaimed radical leftists to differentiate themselves from “classical liberals” by which they mean economic liberals in the post-mercantile industrial revolution sense, not social liberals. It’s a pointless identarian game of word hopscotch that really does nothing to elevate the…

Headline made me think Dead Space got added to Gamepass as a surprise :(

trans allies ARE the problem here.

Mildly impolite criticism is literally 1984!

What are you talking about? Bow the fuck do the actions of however many assholes translated to all trans people or all allies or even the movement itself. This is “a gay guy unfairly called me homophobic so now i decided to be a homophobe logic”

Your entire reply is mealy mouthed and suspect. It is literally the lowest effort to not play a thing. There are plenty of other things to play. And your complaint about not being able call out marginalized groups, oof. you are just aching to use some slurs aren’t you? You are giving big “if you aren’t nice to me I won…