It just seems odd to hold ground meats to some sort of condiment purity requirement.

Good to know you didn’t bother to read past the title of that article...

This is just the sort of distraction that gets us #alllivesmatter and #notallmen. It has nothing to do with the sexy dancers or some perceived fight for equal representation at game conferences.

Keeping them out of it certainly helps avoid undermining the goal in the first place though.

Oh, ok. I’m surprised they didn’t ask you first. You don’t see a problem about a representation issue that doesn’t effect you, and plenty of women love seeing other women anyway. Case closed.

No, just a little thankful to come from a state that generally seems to not give a shit about everyone else’s ketchup consumption, I guess.

If you think this is about including sexy male dancers in game development conference after parties, you’ve completely missed the point.

No one’s policing their morals. They’re free to hold the event. They’re not immune from criticism.

There’s a big difference between sexy and sexuality. The game industry has no shortage of “sexy” things. But dealing with sexuality is more nuanced, and only a handful of developers ever really delve into it.

If you think the point of the article is about securing the right for scantly clad male dancers to be at these sorts of events, you’ve completely missed.

They aren’t banned from doing this. They’re just not immune to criticism for doing it. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. It’s perfectly within the realm of free speech to criticize their decision to hold an after party like this.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding about freedom of speech. The freedom of speech allows Microsoft the ability to hold this sort of event, but doesn’t in any way provide them immunity from criticism for it.

The heart of our nation apparently has weird control issues with condiments.

Wouldn’t hold my breath, Skyrim is still a decent ways away from reliable multiplayer (if it ever gets it), and it’s likely no easier to add to Fallout 4.

I don’t know that all Western mobile games rely on this, but Japanese (and likely much of the rest of East Asia) ones frequently use gatchas to draw people in.

They almost certainly did something somewhat on par, but the fact remains Microsoft is also the party that closed the studios in the first place.

Microsoft’s end of cycle failures seem almost entirely built around how they pitched the XB1. In part, they mirrored the sort of hubris Sony went into the previous generation with, when Sony assumed the success of the PS2 would carry a year late and considerably more expensive PS3 ahead of the competition.

And there’s plenty of indies they’ll never get around to. And many that prove popular and get multiple articles. It’s still not a site dedicated to only giving the level of coverage you seem to want.

Sounds like you want Kotaku to be something it’s not. It’s not your indie game finder.

It’s not especially surprising, given they’re workstation cards.