Xbox's good guy, underdog mask might have slipped for the last time. Studio closures, layoffs, and an onslaught of questionable PR missteps add to a decade of irresponsible mistakes and decisions.
My piece on the subject:
There's three reasons people don't like Meghan Markle, and you can't convince me otherwise.
1) Racism, pure and simple.
2) She's a woman.
3) She's attractive.
Everything I ever hear or see about this woman is that she's lovely, and yet people froth at the mouth to slag her off.
Let’s not forget when
#MeghanMarkle
took her cameras to a literal CRIME SCENE, 3 days after the mass murder of children. Using Uvalde to raise her profile & get press. But she’s a hUmAniTariAn. You want to pay respects? Be respectful & leave the cameras.
#MeghanMarkleIsAJoke
@supersuperyon
@GaryLineker
You should try learning that Hamas and Palestine are not one and the same, and you can voice support for one while condemning the other. I believe in you.
Yeah someone who's independently successful, not white, and is outspoken married into our generally useless monarchy, who gives a fuck? More power to her
@supersuperyon
@GaryLineker
You're indicating that Gary needs to speak out against Hamas, if he's voicing support for Palestine. He doesn't, the two things do not always need to exist in the same sentences together.
If anything, it should be *assumed* that people don't support a terrorist organisation.
@Polygon
As they should. The whole show will, otherwise, be an embarrassment to an industry that's usually so well spoken on other important crises.
Everyone that gets on that stage, and gets in front of the mic, has a responsibility.
@verge
Really well written, and highlights a few points (like the one below) I've been trying to drive home. Sadly, most of these people have already decided they're right, and don't care to be better.
Still. Really good reporting.
@adashtra
What's funny is, with the way the last highlighted sentence is structured anyway, it implies that Saga had already been defined as a main character and PoC before Sweet Baby were contracted.
Which immediately disproves half of their arguments lol
@PaulTassi
Lawsuit material, pretty sure it's illegal to divulge medical info publicly like that, and it's *definitely* illegal to fire someone because of it..
@supersuperyon
@GaryLineker
Maybe because Israel are already getting enough sympathy, empathy, and support around the world. At a certain point, it's much more valuable to voice support for the oppressed (Palestinians), rather than the oppressor (Israel).
@VGC_News
This is a depressing read, if only because it's incredibly sad that actual real people, like people who actually exist unironically, got this attached to a brand and corporation in the first place lol
You're all very weird people who are seemingly obsessed with what seems to be a perfectly nice woman
I hope you all find some form of peace from whatever tragic turn of events made you this way
@Anthonyisback33
You (or anyone else not directly involved) can't specifically say what Sweet Baby did to any of the games, regardless of what you think of the games as they stand. You can't 'tell' anything.
@MetalBlakedowns
I'm gonna listen to it a couple more times yet, but genuinely think it's one of the best straight-up metalcore releases in years. Not a single bad or boring song on there, and they're all right in line with how good the singles were.
@OhNoItsAlexx
Not a game journalist, have been playing games for 25 years, and yeah I didn't find the correct route here for 10 minutes at least. Backtracked incredibly far before figuring it out.
@alyssa_merc
The speed and dedication of the weirdos criticizing Sweet Baby - and anyone defending them - would almost be admirable if it wasn't such a deep cry for help lol
@KRoyallyloves
It doesn't surprise me one bit that a staunch supporter of the royal family is so keen to assume I'm poor, and take the piss out of that 😂
@nickjcal
Last I checked, it was STILL advertised as a survival MMO on Steam, the same thing they pushed with the early trailers. But it has next to no Survival elements, and isn't an MMO - it's an extraction shooter.
Nvidia is launching its new RTX 3080 Ti card today. It will be available on June 3rd, priced at $1,199. Performance should be very close to a RTX 3090, with 12GB of GDDR6X. Full details here:
@StellarBlade
From
@GenePark
's excellent review, that I think might actually be a must-read if you're interested in a fresh perspective on Stellar Blade.
The Palestinian genocide just outing people as utter shits left right and centre aye? Neil Druckmann, Rachel Riley, the Stranger Things fella, Biden, between them (and sadly many more) I've basically never seen so many cases of 'telling on yourself' as I have the last week or two
@rpg_haven
@stephentotilo
All of the things you could put that energy towards that actually matter, and you're choosing this way to expend it
Embarrassing
Lots of talk about a 'Destiny 3' happening at the moment. I'm gonna be a spoilsport - no version of 'Destiny 3' exists. There's no way for Bungie to develop and release a Destiny 3 without halting/ slowing support for 2, and that's the natural limitation of AAA.
The fact that people (men lol) read this entire thing and still don't see an issue is legitimately terrifying/ embarrassing depending on what sex you are.
I'm a man, so it's a bit embarrassing that people like me can't see any issue with this. Fuck Jonah Hill.
This is from Sarah Brady - Jonah Hill’s ex - this is manipulative, abusive bullshit.
SHE IS A SURFER AND SHOULDN’T…post pictures of herself in a bathing suit? WTF.
What a tiny little man.
@bubbibguy
@patrickklepek
It's not convenient - review codes for Legacy have been reported multiple times to have not gone to everyone/ arrive late, even to large outlets
In this case, he didn't get a review code, which isn't the first time
@Toadsanime
We need some sort of new category in between the tiny teams and self-funded studios, and then games published by Devolver or Annapurna, and then whatever THIS is, because the term 'Indie' has become so muddied
@misskaybea
@Elsan271
Speak for yourself. I can count on one hand the amount of people I know who give a singular fuck about our decrepit, outdated monarchy
Most people I know think it should be abolished, and any power stripper away
@supersuperyon
@ASpitzWithAPipe
@GaryLineker
Israel are committing daily war crimes, the proof is just about everywhere to see. Innocent Palestinians are being murdered by their thousands every day - the number of children killed over the last four weeks in Gaza outweighs every other conflict annually worldwide since 2019.
@xoxogossipgita
If we're talking Dark Souls, it's because the game punishes mistakes instantly and without any kind of warning. Boss fights require near perfect action to succeed. The damage you recieve is massive. The mechanics are easy to understand, that isn't what equates a hard game.
@astrodrac
@austin_walker
Requesting someone get banned, and asking people to report someone acting in bad faith, isn't harassment lol
What's happened to everyone since though, that's the very definition of targeted harassment
@RichieGill15
@adashtra
The director of Alan Wake 2, and the screenshot I was replying to? Not to mention the fact that Saga's father is an allegory of Martin Hatch, a black character introduced before Sweet Baby were created.
@markdea92900405
She was a main supporting character on an incredibly popular TV show for years lol, I don't know how much Suits actors were paid, but I'd wager she was more than comfortable when she met Harry
@Doctor_Cupcakes
The thing I always use for this is that you can't have Magneto without him being Jewish, because him being Jewish and experiencing the Holocaust is a major driving factor for his whole personality. Same thing with Doom, albeit in a fictional country.
@jeremy_peel
Easy to see this in a game like Suicide Squad to be honest. What would've been exciting when development started, is now a little tiresome to many.
@APZonerunner
Colt, Klobrille, few others all come to mind
Talented content creators, no doubt, but it's a weirdly toxic brand-creator relationship that undermines a lot of the professionalism in other areas of the industry
(Not saying this is who you're talking about obvs)
@NekrosLy
@astrodrac
@austin_walker
The curator pretty much said (without saying exactly) that his problem with Sweet Baby is that they encourage diversity and woke culture. That thought process alone should disqualify someone from being able to suggest or not suggest games.
@samwrite
Think most people in their late 20s and early 30s are acutely aware that comfortable retirement is an impossibility, unless they're earning significantly above the UK average. Bleak thought, but no-one I know my age ever speaks about retirement because it's just not very likely
The fact that JK Rowling is definitely absolutely seething over the fact Radcliffe and Watson are infinitely better people than she is makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
Finally got around to watching the new Black Panther movie and man, what a set of acting performances it is. It doesn't rely on big action or set pieces, simply actors and characters carrying every scene.
In particular, Shuri, Namor, and Rahmonda are just excellent.
@PaulTassi
These people don't seem to understand that requesting people use a built on report feature to report someone isn't actually harassment lol
But sending death threats, stalking profiles, spamming comments, or QRTs, issuing threats, and everything else absolutely is. Can't write it
@ElTortugaGames
@jaymcastello
Refusing to review it is one step, yes. But a lot of sites will rely on bankable traffic to get by, so it's not always viable.
Another alternative is to actually criticize media through the lens of the bigoted creator, or from the perspective of her persecuted minorities. (1/2)
I present to you - CallMeKevin, who regularly plays entirely random games that don't share common genres, mechanics, or even quality levels.
Yet people watch him play random games because he's fucking funny.
It feels like gaming as a whole has stopped growing. Like we hit a wall or a peak or people got it all out of their system with the pandemic and what not.
I don't know any gaming YTers that are really growing rn. Everything is stagnant and I don't see how it picks back up.
@TheCartelDel
Game development aside, I think it's actually incredibly weird and silly to expect migrants to earn *higher* than the average UK salary to move here. Which, reportedly, was just shy of 35k in 2023.
Every clip I've seen of this prick has him being either racist, sexist, or simply just screaming at a camera
Yet every streaming related outlet pushes his stuff because they know it'll do numbers
an embarrassment to a scene that already gets negative attention
Caroline was told that a puberty blocker would relieve her child's psychological distress. That's not what happened.
More reporting from inside Washington University's Transgender Center by
@EmilyYoffe
:
@SkillUpYT
This, I've gotta say, is about the least surprising verdict on a video game in a while. From what little we'd seen, I don't know how anyone thought it looked good lol
@PaulTassi
Even though it came out five years ago, it essentially hasn't aged in most respects. Bar the frame rate restrictions and Rockstar's signature wonky third person shooting, it's pretty timeless
Think people are just excited for *that* Rockstar feeling again
@JohnnyDi17
@alyssa_merc
I dunno, I reckon making a list of games that a consulting company assisted on, purely because you're racist and don't like black people in your games, is much worse
I'd want the Curator's list removed too, ngl 🤷
Some of you don’t seem to understand how narrative consulting on games works, but don’t worry: I do!
Yes this is about Sweet Baby, because I’ve worked with that team, and they’re one of the finest in the biz. 🧵1/12