“The item’s description references the Fettmilch Uprising, renaming it to the Goblin Rebellion. It wasn’t accidental.”

Yeah, and by that same logic playing a video is not the worst someone can do. Scale matters. Intent matters. Lumping people together into a bin with transphobes and Nazis is throwing the baby out with the bathwater in this case. It is counterproductive and damages the very cause the community and its allies are…

I’m conflicted about this. On one hand, I’d love to not give Rowling any more money. On the other hand, the developers of the game obviously don’t share her views, and hurting them to spite her doesn’t seem like the right way to go. I wish there was a way to support the devs and indulge my nostalgia without any cash…

This item in the game does not resemble a shofar (other than the fact both are horns, which is hardly somehow unique to Judaism) nor does it reference any sort of anti semitic violence.

*sigh* posting this is a mistake, because everyone on Kotaku is biased... Case in point the attitude of this opinion piece in the first place but.... What did all of you legitimately expect?

I think picking battles is important. I have seen people intentionally posting spoilers and calling people Nazis just for liking the game.

Boycotting or not boycotting something should be a personal choice. Anyone who harassess anyone about doing/not doing it is a jerk.

I have no particular beef with trans people or their supporters, but you’re condemning the bad behaviour of one side whilst refusing to do so for the other; threats and abuse levelled at streamers to the point of making some of them cry, randomly going into threads to give spoilers, etc. It’s utterly pathetic.

I guess…

I don’t condone any messaging that directs anger or hatred toward anyone. It’s not useful. In fact, it’s actively harmful to the mental health issues that only serve to inflame these issues further. The anti-trans language being alluded to here is absolutely ridiculous culture-war propaganda that has no place in a…

Yeah it’s a bummer for sure, the story isn’t anything special but still, it just released, emotions and passions are high, but spoiling the game doesn’t help or aid anybody.

I see what you’re doing, but all you’re accomplishing is the very thing I’ve called out in my original comment and in other replies below. You’re twisting the issue to make me sound insensitive to the plight of the Trans community when that’s not it at all.

Incorrect, I’m upset at the fact that the people screaming the loudest and threatening people for even considering playing the game are not doing anything productive to further their cause and instead making themselves look worse and in-turn bringing harm to the cause.

They never just say “eh, not for me”, when it comes to the MCU. It’s always couched in gate-keeping snobbery and insults to the viewers that like it.

Arachnophobia.

I sincerely hope it wasn't a spider  :/

Why not a police sim? It’s a game and games should allow one to take up the mantle of someone else and walk in their shoes, be it a person of another gender, profession, country or a dragon, a spirit or a cloud.

More gatekeeping by crybaby artists who are making false claims and lies about how AI works in order to garner sympathy and outrage culture. Their art is not stolen, it’s not even used in any piece. To say that the computer looking at millions of different pieces of art from all over the world to train it on what…

Every single Pokemon S/V Article in a nutshell.

I still feel like everyone in the global hot take economy overreacted to hell and back from Yoshida’s statement re: diversity. If you actually read what he said (and register the meaning of the actual words and not your hot take interpretation) it is quite clear that there are other ethnicities in the world but that…

So let me get this straight... Nintendo lawyers sit down with SWT TO’s a YEAR AGO to say “we want you to get a license to do this but as long as you do you’re okay,” SWT says “we’ll try,” later says “lulz this is hard we want to operate without a license for awhile,” Nintendo says “we never said you could do a…