Twig

You're right, I was confusing you with someone else, re: Polish mythology. Your arguments are very similar, so I conflated your posts. Sorry about that. That was my mistake. But I stand by what I said, re: silencing. I believe that it's not intentional (which is where my "whether intentional or not" bit came from), but you're obfuscating the issue with unnecessary statements. A Korean drama doesn't matter, because it's so far removed from this issue as to be meaningless to the argument. Same for Bollywood. No relevance whatsoever. These things just get in the way, make the argument so complicated and so far away from what it actually is so that it all fades away into nothingness. This isn't a contemporary, realistic setting. This is a completely fictional world with magic and dragons and what have you. The only excuse is ignorance (again, not a sin, unless it's willful), but then you claim they aren't ignorant. So what is it? Why is it all white? And for that matter, why does it even matter why it's all white? All that matters is it is. EDIT: Ah, I found where I got your Polish mythology thing from. It's true that you don't explicitly say this game represents Polish mythology, etc. But then you compare it to a Korean book that does. You can see why I'd be confused, yes? You're comparing a book that represents Korean mythology (a thing which, as far as I know, can be confirmed through preserved history) to this video game which doesn't, for the most part, represent Polish mythology (as far as we all know! maybe there's some crazy coincidence and it perfectly represents Polish mythology! wouldn't that be a laugh, and we'd never even know it).

Well all the cods are the same game anyway!

Idle Thumbs does that all the time, hah. Nobody can get everything right!

But that doesn't even matter. At all. Who fucking cares. This is criticism. People here are actively arguing against criticism, like they shouldn't be criticized, and that's dumb. You yourself are still doing it, despite claiming not to. "Oh but what if a Korean drama only had Korean people." This isn't a Korean drama, this is a fantasy world where anything could happen. You've also brought up how it's all Polish mythology and yadda yadda, which indicates you didn't actually read that article, written by a Polish person, pointing out that there isn't really any such thing as Polish mythology, and it's largely made up. What you're doing is largely a silencing tactic. Whether intentional or not. You're being dismissive of the complaints that people have. The legitimate complaints. Your reasoning is logically sound, I guess, but it's a reasoning that ignores the larger picture. Stop focusing on the so-called cultural heritage of a fucking fantasy book with dwarves (decidedly not Polish in origin). It's a waste of time. I repeat: change doesn't happen without talking about it first. And another thing! Ignorance isn't a sin. Willful ignorance is. Saying they are ignorant is not an insult. But if they intentionally and willfully ignore these kinds of criticism, that is where the problem lies. It remains to be seen whether or not they will.

Haha, for what it's worth, I think we are keeping it closely tied to the forums. I don't remember why we decided to use real names over forum handles. Maybe because calling someone "ninja squirrel" or "twig" just feels weird. Anyway. Gorm is Ben. NinjaSquirrel is Andy. Codi is Duncan. (I'm assuming this is the Kieron Gillen wannabe, as we're all American besides Codi and NinjaSquirrel!) Twig is Jon. Blambo is Ray. This upcoming episode has Ben, myself, and a newcomer Delerat (I think we end up calling him Delerat, as that's what he preferred since he's another Andrew, like Blambo). We definitely name-dropped a million different anime(s?) without really going into detail. I tried to be better about that on this upcoming episode. Hopefully I succeeded!

I just don't understand why asking for More Than White People in a fucking video game always leads to these long pointless arguments where people try to defend lack of representation. Nobody's accusing CD Projekt of being intentionally racist. It's obviously just not something they thought about. I thought the article Mangela linked earlier was pretty fuckin' spot-on as far as explaining what happened, and it sounds entirely reasonable. (Here it is again, since it seems like some people here didn't even bother reading it: http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2015/06/04/witcher-3-and-diversity/) I just don't fucking get it. Nothing is immune to criticism. Likewise, criticism doesn't automatically mean the subject of criticism is the worst thing in human history. Without criticism, nothing will ever change. You people understand that, right? The only reason gay romance existed in Mass Effect 3 after not existing in Mass Effect 1/2 is because people spoke up about it. Anyone else remember that whole kerfuffle? I don't believe for a second that they intentionally left it out of Mass Effect 1/2. It's just not something they thought was important. If it had been intentional, they never would've added it in the next game, you know? (Although I just remembered the whole Asari thing so yeah. ANYWAY.) It was ridiculous the amount of people (i.e., more than zero) who fought against it, but Bioware listened, and rightly addressed the issues in future games. Their romance stuff has only improved with every iteration, and while still not perfect, is better than most. Because they listen to, what's that word again? Criticism! Likewise, I honestly believe that CD Projekt has listened to a lot of criticism (and not just in terms of. Anyone remember the first Witcher? It had fucking collectible sex cards. I do believe they're actively trying to make their sexy-fun-times more believable, or at least less absurd. The Witcher 2 was a huge improvement in that regard. Like immense, vast improvement. It still has a good deal of titillation to it, and I'm not sure I believe they'll ever be as good about it as, for example, Dragon Age, because I think they like their titillation. (I haven't played TW3, yet, but I hear it's on the same level as TW2?) In a perfect world, titillation would be fine, since not everything (i.e., most things) would be titillation. Just like, in a perfect world, having 100% white people would be fine, since not everything (i.e., most things) would be 100% white. You see how it all comes together? Because I don't I just fuckin' ranted and rambled but there's a coherent point in there somewhere. Man I hate this stupid fucking argument every time it fucking comes up. It's the same shit every time. (EDIT: Could've sworn there was a gay romance option in ME2, but it appears that was only added for ME3? Huh. Maybe Dragon Age would've been a better example, eh?)

Maybe I'm just used to the internet, but I didn't find them THAT annoying. I'd never watch their show if it wasn't for this, but hey. I've seen worse. Pewdiepie, for example, is infinitely more annoying to me. At any rate, those screenshots look nice. The sacrifice thing sounds... well, I don't really get it. But it has me interested. We'll see, I guess! E3's almost here. O:

In that case I don't really know what you're complaining about. U:

Who cares? This isn't Poland. This is a fantasy world with Scottish dwarves. There are pretty much no Scottish people in Poland. Oh wait there aren't any dwarves in Poland either, because they don't exist in real life. brb writing to gamergate central about the scottish sjw conspiracy

If you're adding over five bucks, you can just add the exact amount.

It's specifically for people who want a PC but don't want to have to think about building one and who don't already otherwise have one and (ostensibly) won't have to think about managing it or installing weird shit once it's actually in their hands. It's not for people like you. Whether or not it works out as such remains to be seen. But I don't think it's that hard to see what they're trying to do.

You definitely don't need both. The Steam Link is a clean $50 for all your streaming purchases. megaspel: The streaming we're talking about is in-house streaming from computer to computer, not like Twitch streaming.

I remember when Lost was really amazing for the first two seasons. And then it devolved into merely good. That was a sad day.

It's gonna be a remake of Demon's Souls!

edit: changed my mind i don't feel like getting into this shit

...I thought it did work like that? I've played using that server finder thing pretty much exclusively ever since the old GAF server finally died, and I've never run into any wacky servers.

Haha I'm definitely not surprised to hear this. I should watch it again, too.

I just avoid playing with people here 'cause I rage too much. U:

Oh you're right. The original movie blew my mind with how good it looked at the time! That's literally all I remember about it.

My old old guild once made a bunch of Tauren characters - wish I could remember my name, but it was so long ago, maybe Beeftacular? - on another server, got naked, and ran to the area above the dwarven city, while an inside-man on the alliance side of things advertised free burgers. Then we all jumped off and died at the entrance to Ironforge. Our corpses remain there to this day. Well, in spirit, anyway. Literally. My dead Tauren's spirit is still sitting there.

Ahhh WoW that game that every time someone mentions it I want to go back and play but never do!

Hey! That's not what I said!

I also pre-ordered but I'm the best!

Okay I will also continue doing so, until informed otherwise!

I've actually being wondering recently if the "dwarf" fantasy race bothers people with real-life dwarfism. I don't know why I only started wondering this recently, but yeah. I love love love the dwarf fantasy race, it's my favorite thing. But they're nothing like the real life condition. So I feel bad maybe I dunno. D: