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She also has her own issues with consent when it comes to fans, so I have no doubts she is complicit

I certainly would

Because he’s a very, very stupid cruel person.

FTFY I’m tired of the narrative that he doesn’t know what he is doing. He knows exactly what and why he is doing it

Yes indeed. We are already seeing the cruelty on display with ICE threats and raids, secret service going after 11 year olds, and just the incredible about of bullshit attempting to legally dehumanize trans people

Unfortunately so will everyone else. I can’t foresee a lot of good endings for this one

I dunno if you read the response, but Linus was a fucking fool for asking for receipts. He looks like your MAGA uncle asking you to prove vaccines aren’t harmful

I don’t think they were bought by anyone, but their distributor did recently approve them for ads. I suggested that as a possibility, but she was pretty sure it was PocketCasts inserting them. We shall see either way.

My partner noticed a ton of ads in a similar situation (listening to older podcasts). She was also under the impression these older casts did not have ads, but she is getting more and more each listen. Maybe it is the creator inserting them in older episodes, but she is trying AntennaPod, so we shall see

It was AAVE for a long time, and momentum is a hell of a thing. Ultimately whatever the culture wants to call it, it is really up to them.

Of note here, AAVE is an outdated term. AAE - African American English (still a little outdated) or AAL - African American Language (the newest, most accurate term) are more accurate. Linguists dropped the “Vernacular” because it is not a slang language, and are starting to change “English” to “Language” because it is most likely derived from creole, not English

It is not just slang, though. It is a whole language that black folks have been constantly asking white people to stop using as slang. This is just one public instance of it happening

I would be willing to believe that if he hadn’t said:

The other claims about Bill Gates being made in this thread are exactly that -> claims.

Everything you plus the fact that you cannot become that wealthy without exploiting people. Just fucking sickening to see people defending billionaires

I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation

I disagree. The writing of Taash, while basic, has a lot in common with folks early in discovering their trans identity. Yeah, it is awkward and uncomfortable. Guess what, self introspection often is. I would say with Taash we see a lot of what would be internal struggles being vocalized. The good news is that Taash isn’t the only character you can interact with.

Breaking with an established formula can be a big detriment to a franchise.

Of course it can, but it doesn’t solely make it a bad game.

Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.

I disagree. I really like the gameplay. It gets better almost immediately after the tutorial, though the tutorial is a little long for my taste.

All time peak on steam is 90k - that’s horrendous. Obviously, that’s not the total sales and it’s also sold on other platforms, so we do not know the real number. However,the game went on discount not even 2 months after release, and a pretty hefty one at that, 35% I think.

Yeah, again, I don’t think the numbers are great, but 90k on 1 of 4 or 5 big platforms isn’t dismal. And the discount could be telling, but (I just looked it up) it was around 29%, which is still $50. Part of that could be backlash to the $70 AAA price tag. All that being said, all of this is speculation without numbers being released from EA

If the discourse I’m seeing on dev/gaming twitter/bluesky is anything to go off of

It’s probably not. Everyone I know that has actually played has found it to be quite fun. It’s not perfect, but highly enjoyable 7/10. Most of the negative reviews I have seen are 1 of 3 things:

1. It’S tOo WoKe And
2. It not a CRPG like Origins
3. The writing is not up the same standards as previous Dragon Ages

So the first one can be thrown out. 2 is true, but doesn’t make it a bad game. 3 is true for the tutorial portion for sure, but after that things open up. The story isn’t amazing, but it suits the gameplay well.

EA hasn’t released any sales numbers, so hard to say on that part, but probably not in the multiple millions. From what I can find it is probably selling fine. Not amazing, not bad, but fine. That also could be due to a variety of factors like marketing clarity or using an IP in a way that fans of the IP did not want. It does not necessarily mean the game is a bad game

The issues of consent are very present with her too

I am going to put the same warning on this post as I did on the one in literature:

For anyone about to read the article, it is A LOT. Like, I don’t have any particular triggers and I had a hard time reading it.

The CW itself almost needs a CW, so I spoilered it here:

If you don’t want to read it, the TL;DR is that Gaiman is a monster

This was published in the same journal that published the black plastic study that had a huge math error. Also seem to have problems with conflicts of interest and studies changing authors immediately prior to publication. Dubious at best

Instructions unclear, got a job working 12 hour days

Tell me more of this morning light. Where can one purchase it?