Which of those contexts are you in need of being able to portray in Overwatch?

And it’s not always racist.

There’s not really a whole lot of usage out of those other contexts, while it’s use purely as a way to threaten racially motivated violence is a pretty common one.

Seriously. Weird people acting like they’re losing a part of their culture over not being able to spray paint nooses. “There are non-racist killings via hanging, you know!” is a weird hill to die on.

I don’t get the “there are hangings that aren’t racist” defense. It’s it being used as a reference to racially motivated lynchings by players that makes it problematic. Removing it is a pretty low cost way to deny racists (and ironic jackasses) a symbol they can use.

Honestly, it makes far more sense to censor handguns because those have taken far more black lives than nooses ever did.

If Microsoft couldn’t do it it seems shortsighted to jump ship hoping Spotify can somehow pull it off through sheer money dropping ability.

There’s usually about a 5-10% difference in performance between the mobile version of a graphics card and its desktop version. There’s also no 2060 Super in mobile, so you’re just looking at a regular 2060 and the next card up is a 2070, which you aren’t getting for $1200 most likely.

Doesn’t seem very likely, personally.

The cart really only has value because of the box it’s in. After it’s taken out it doesn’t really matter what they do to it. It’s not a particularly rare cart in itself.

Honestly I’m not sure Abrams is interested in a good sci fi story. It just seems an excuse to throw around certain trappings because they look cool or he’s playing on their familiarity to bring audiences in. So he has an evil-er empire with even bigger death weapons fighting an even pluckier rebel alliance. They blew…

Well good thing there’s nothing particularly pressing about our current cultural situation that might need addressing, I guess.

I feel like a lot of games abuse the player by denying them agency in the horrible things they often inflict on the characters you’ve come to care about. A game that just makes me feel miserable about the consequences of events I had no choice in isn’t necessarily one I want to play.

I feel like this is the sort of detail that makes reviews like Kotaku’s worth more to me than the aggregate score any day. Like Naughty Dog can make an incredibly high-polished game, that due to the things that the Kotaku review talked about, I don’t want to play.

Balking at the idea of games being political is inherently problematic, especially with the incredibly obvious bias these sorts have on what counts as “political.”

I feel like that 95 doesn’t really tell me anything though. I learned more from the Kotaku review than that 95 will ever say.

I find no score reviews like Kotaku’s more useful lately. Like Kotaku’s review of TLOU2 was more useful as an indication of whether I thought I’d like the game than the 95% aggregate score it’s got on Metacritic.

Even if they weren’t review bombing a game that isn’t out yet, you’d still have lopsided scores probably. Seems like practically everything on the PSN store has between a 4-5 star rating. Occasionally you get a really shitty game with less but with user scores there’s not a lot of meaningful variance between 4-5…

I feel like Apple still skimps on the video card a lot of the time, and waiting for their refresh probably isn’t going to change that too much.

Who did Kotaku cancel, exactly? The literal staff of the website in question walked on their own volition, as a group. Kotaku reporting on it didn’t make it happen.