https://www.polygon.com/22538276/five-nights-at-freddys-creator-retiring-scott-cawthon-fnaf-new-developer
I have no appreciation for Five Nights at Freddy's so... yep, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
Non-casual republicanism not accepted in video games
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
Hadn't seen this mentioned (the details of the case raised by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing can be pretty harrowing tbh)
https://kotaku.com/the-activision-blizzard-lawsuit-fallout-is-what-women-h-1847350882
The cherry on the cake is who put out the "nothing to see here" statement
*squints* wait the Bush-era torture lady is an exec at Activision? https://t.co/fiOJ8AnOIl— 10,000 Motivated Rats (@bombsfall) July 23, 2021
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/07/female-video-game-journalists-on-what-to-do-when-the-mob-comes-for-you/
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/over-1-000-activision-blizzard-employees-sign-letter-co-1847364340
― Action Bell (Leee), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/back-4-blood-beta-players-think-they-hear-zombies-yelli-1847443163
I mean
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Monday, 9 August 2021 06:13 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/boyfriend-dungeon-is-being-subjected-to-tumblrs-messies-1847506425
there's a lot going on in this article, some of it tangential to this thread, i think, some of it not. some of it has to do with Fan Service stuff, and what Fans are entitled to. but also some of it is about how to respond to games where the professor has the hots for a student, or vice versa.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
I have a headache now
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
it's just another flavor of reactionary gamer harrassment campaign against women and queer creators, this time from people who claim to be progressive
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
xp
i know exactly what you mean lol
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
i think where i come down on this is that i am
anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:13 (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this seemed very much to be assuming a thing that is huge in all anglophone culture is actually a product of the specific corner of anglophone culture the writer grew up in to the point i decided to stop reading it before i also got a headache
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Just when you think that Activision/Blizzard can't be more of a cluster than it already is: https://kotaku.com/bobby-kotick-actually-wrote-fran-townsends-deranged-co-1848069983
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:04 (two years ago) link
Uh.
https://www.fanbyte.com/news/activision-inexplicably-introduces-tool-to-rate-character-diversity-metrics/
― JimD, Friday, 13 May 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
the classic 'try so hard to be woke you loop back around to phrenology'
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 May 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-co-creator-john-carmack-is-headlining-a-toxic-and-proud-sci-fi-convention-that-rails-against-woke-propaganda/
― Nhex, Friday, 19 May 2023 12:27 (ten months ago) link
https://kotaku.com/sweet-baby-inc-consulting-games-alan-wake-2-dei-1851312428
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:40 (three weeks ago) link
The users of that Discord are some of the most pathetic people on the internet
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:59 (three weeks ago) link
Coverage and (derisive) commentary from the Western Kabuki podcast: https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/gamergate-15/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:25 (one week ago) link