This is the best artictle title of this year too for sure. I love it.
What a stupid article. But hey, I now know that Stellar Blade has been released on PC.
I’m with you. Very puritan, kinkshaming article. Stellar Blade might not be my thing, but I know not to yuck people’s yum. One could take the opportunity to discuss sexual objectification, but apparently that’s off the table.
The title was funnier than the article, I must admit.
Gooner detected
Would be nice if this place could refrain from sliding into reactionary conservatism even ironically.
I’m forced to agree. It feels weird to do so, but, I guess yeah- the thing which should be focused on is the how and why of this and not just focus on the puritan disgust angle.
I’ve seen the Shaun video (linked in these replies somewhere) so I’m familiar with what’s going on socially around this video game. Being upset because of misogynistic objectification is appropriate, but sex isn’t inherently bad.
I couldn’t make it through the whole 2hr essay, but I can’t disagree with some of his criticisms of the game. It’s just that they never bothered me, and I found the AAish quality of the game really cozy.
I completely agree with him about just how manufactured the “woke outrage” seemed to be, though. I just fundamentally believe “woke” lost its meaning some time ago and doesn’t really define anything anymore. It is really handy for letting mindless culture-warrior types flag themselves, though. I certainly doubt the IGN article was the ONLY article criticizing eve’s character design, but I think it served as a great example of just how far up their own asses the anti-woke crowd love to be.
Josh’s articles seem to be bangers most of the time.
Unlike the people he’s writing about, which probably never banged.
41% is way less than I was expecting.
And this is a problem, why? Mods are from the community. It’s what they want to add or change in the game. You could probably get similar numbers for a lot of games.
Hell, forget Nexus, look at lovers lab (or don’t if you wanna stay pure lol).
Conservatives should be banning mods if they’re banning books. Games are for children, right? Right???
Gooner is my word of the year for 2025, it’s an instant classic
This is the same team that made Nikke they know exactly what kind of audience this game is pulling
