“Most people can live perfectly happy normal lives without ever knowing what a nazi dogwhistle is.”

1000% on the callout of the fucking cheapest, shittiest, hackiest impulses of these braindead dickbags making edgelord horror crap.

At this point there are two things that should be standard to first party controllers yet aren’t:

I’m honestly a little flabbergasted that somebody could talk about the state of turn-based RPGs in 2017 and not even mention Dragon Quest XI.

I’ll never be able to stop getting a laugh at the fact Twitch is filled with hundreds of millions of gaming videos of depictions of heinous acts of horrific violence, cruelty, war crimes, etc.... but holy hell SHUT IT ALL DOWN! THAT’S A BOOB! SHUT IT DOWN IMMEDIATELY! CODE RED! CODE RED!

Let’s make this very clear-

Yes it is you.

For the last fucking time (and you should know better!):

Some of these comments make me think it’s computer hour at some retirement community right now.

Why are you even here?

This site regularly criticizes C-suite executives of gaming companies, and this article is explicitly about female journalists and developers. That’s the text of this article. Representation in this context refers to the gaming news desks that cover games and the development teams whose labor produces the games we all…

The people you’re describing are the ones selling this grift.

I’m a white man who has benefited greatly from my privilege over the years (even if I haven’t always been aware of it) so I know my voice probably shouldn’t be the loudest on this issue, but my god even I’m sick of how many talentless white men have infested this industry I love.

You’re right.  That was a step too far. I apologize.  

You’re right.  I was out of line with that comment. 

As a dev, let me just say big L-O-L at “inflation” being the reason. It’s corporate greed, period. You think those profits go back to the devs?

“So rising prices of gaming primarily goes to increased development costs.”

Just false. Maybe take a look at how many layoffs there have been this year.

I’m conflating the business tactic of sneakily advertising to children while being able to plausibly deny such a thing is happening.

And ultimately this goes back to personal responsibility, which is at the heart of any addiction.

at least three of the games mentioned are meant for an age group above that of the child. So you can cross those off the list of “marketed to children”.

TL;DR? Let me make it simple. “I’m special and the rules don’t apply because I found a term that makes me sound special "