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TommyCronin6969
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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WTF is wrong with Kotaku!? I thought they were decidedly in the camp of accessibility options being good as more people get to enjoy games that way.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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I was assuming they patched out the woke when I saw what Kotaku said, but after the notes, wtf are they even thinking?
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Cause it's no longer twitter and the truth is allowed to come out. Show some respect for X and Elon.
Cyberpunkd
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“Quick, I have 10 minutes to make a clickbait unpaid article for Internet clout!”
SlicedBread3
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They've been acting uncharacteristically as of late. Wouldn't have expected an article like this from them either:
https://kotaku.com/stellar-blade-release-date-bunny-outfit-1851214532
"Over on the PlayStation Blog, game director Kim Hyung Tae talked about Stellar Blade’s story, the preorder bonuses that include some additional accessories and outfits for Eve, and more. But let’s be honest, we’re all here for the fits. That’s the only thing that matters here, right? I mean, Eve is dressed up in everything from a bikini to what looks like a peacock outfit. The getups you can dress the protagonist up in are fire and would make good fit checks on social media sites such as Instagram and Pinterest. Sometimes, you wanna flaunt what you’ve got while you’re fighting. The combat also looks pretty slick."
MiguelItUp
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Twitter is awful, but man the addition of these has been amazing lmao.
DonF
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They only care for accessibility when it's about "genre". Aka, can trans people play this game without being triggered??
Senua
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Nah the black protag is here to stay, sadly for you!
lughnasadh123
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https://kotaku.com/alan-wake-2-1-15-update-jump-scare-option-level-select-1851213619
Full article there. Long story short: the person was referencing patching in features that make the jump scares less scary while not even thinking about them working as accessability options. They did correct it, so that's good.
Full article there. Long story short: the person was referencing patching in features that make the jump scares less scary while not even thinking about them working as accessability options. They did correct it, so that's good.
Kenneth Haight
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Tone deaf
ozz ex machina
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Have you played the game? Completed it and nothing stood out to me as woke or cringe. It's an excellent game.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Everybody is chasing clicks. So the best way to do that now is to be anti-accessibility.
It's really great when the woke get swallowed by wokeness.
So i guess woke is just used for anything now.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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I haven't. But anytime Kotaku complains I assume it's about something woke or anti woke. My bad. ha!
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
As long as they continue to keep it unbiased. Where someone can’t just make something up.
mitch1971
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Yet the criticisms in the comments of calling the people of earth Natives is....on point. Is 'native' banned in their world now?!
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mitch1971
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What a 180!
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New Alan Wake II Update Is Great For Scaredy-Cats Like Me [Corrected]
New Alan Wake II Update Is Great For Scaredy-Cats Like Me [Corrected]
Developer Remedy Entertainment is adding an option to cut down on the jump scares
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Doom85
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They also did last year a Top 30 Anime of the Last Ten Years, and immediately at #30 is Kakegurui. The anime well known for giving its female characters rather…”enthusiastic” facial expressions when they win at the gambling games they engage in. They also included Konosuba which is also fairly fanservice-y at times.
It was also a far more based and well-informed list than IGN’s fumble of a top Anime of all Time list they also did last year (most of the shows listed were good-excellent, but either the placement was way off or it shouldn’t be on a Top 25 ever list unless you’ve only dabbled slightly into anime).
There’s probably at least one, maybe even some, people in Kotaku who appreciate fanservice or at least aren’t bothered by it, but get drowned out by the people who scream about it. Like, it’s okay to not personally like fanservice, but then don’t cover stories involving games and such that utilize it and leave it to your employees who do. You wouldn’t have the person who doesn’t like slasher films to be the one to review Scream 6 last year, would you?
PharaoTutAnchAmun
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Kotaku deleted that post on X but the harm is done...Kotaku beiing Kotaku again, taking L after L. I stopped visiting them years ago...now i banning them on X. Why would sane people making such a post? Shame on you Cuntako....
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StreetsofBeige
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LOL. You know the drill. The most annoying and political people are always worse than the people they accuse.What a 180!
New Alan Wake II Update Is Great For Scaredy-Cats Like Me [Corrected]
New Alan Wake II Update Is Great For Scaredy-Cats Like Me [Corrected]
Developer Remedy Entertainment is adding an option to cut down on the jump scares
Correction, 2/1/24, 9:40 a.m. ET: This post previously disregarded the accessibility implications of this update. It has been updated to acknowledge those implications. Kotaku regrets the error.
StreetsofBeige
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it's more about Kotaku laying an egg on their own face. Thats why they changed the headline.
sigmaZ
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CherryFalls
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Erased a White character and replaced her with black:
Just so the black could shit on White people:
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nkarafo
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Is it something the community could use to challenge the woke or big companies that cater to them?
If yes then don't count on it.
FrankWza
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Forget the mass murder and meth empire, Walter white would have been canceled for making flynn use one foot when he was practicing driving.
ozz ex machina
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Erased a White character and replaced her with black:
Just so the black could shit on White people:
She's a complex and interesting character who has strong, positive relationships with white characters. Don't make her out to be some kind of two dimensional anti-white blm woke character with one screenshot. Also the actor did a great job too.
I'm happy to complain about woke issues when they exist. This isn't one.
Roxkis_ii
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So far all the community notes I've seen have been fact based. So if someone is posting something that contradicts known facts from credible sources, then that's when they usually pop up.
I don't think fighting culture wars would be a good use for them...
StreetsofBeige
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To be fair, what if it was reversed and the game character was white, and she said ""Another black asshole....."?
Cmon, youre telling me people wouldnt go nuts at a line like that? But the context is a white asshole and it's a-ok?
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DannyDanger
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This is when it starts getting to Retard Era levels. She's not a woke character. Plz let's not over-correct for the wokeness in games media. That's exactly what the purple ppl did and now they look like idiotsErased a White character and replaced her with black:
Just so the black could shit on White people:
delfrickintree
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based kotaku, getting real sick of these epileptic colorblind neurologicallly stunted not to mention suicidal) crybabies making our games too easy for the normies. gaming is not just a hobby, if you can't keep up with the pros, then stay out!
when they start inserting black characters when nobody asked, thats obviously agenda driven despite all the "natural complexity" they pad it with.
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ozz ex machina
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Of course people would go nuts if that happened.
But the reality is a black woman saying something like that is acceptable in society and it's not some kind of woke statement that a rounded black, female, police detective working in a predominately white environment would say or think something like that. It doesn't mean the game has a woke agenda or that the character is innately racist.
I'd be quite interested to play a character who IS a white racist. If handled delicately in a game with multiple playable characters...it could be interesting. But I think depicting characters in film vs playing as them in a game is felt like a different level of taboo in modern society.
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StreetsofBeige
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Maybe in your own society it's ok to say stuff like that. Wow
Senua
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You just sound like a racist mate
The Stig
Banned
ah. thanks for the clarification. this was really odd.
ozz ex machina
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Modern western society - it is okay to say that. Do you see public outcry? Do you see the game being censored? Do you see other media with similar content? Wake up you clown. I am not saying I agree with any of it, but you are deluded if you don't think saying that is accepted in society. Because it is.
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