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
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 (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 (eleven 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (four weeks ago) link