Not at all. For one, there can be no sense of national pride in a game made outside your country.

There’s no backlash when they are sexualized and exist for the male gaze. Them being complex, independent and strong is seen as a threat.

The sister was undoubtedly the better protagonist, but given the backlash to women and non-white people in leading roles even now in 2024, imagine what it would have been like back then. Ubisoft was playing it safe, and even now with Shadows they are trying to play both sides both in the rhetoric and probably in the choice of having two protagonists.

Comparing it to Wukong is unfair. Any game primed for success in China will have astronomical numbers just by virtue of the population size.

YouTube makes sure to remind me, even though I’ve never watched any of the videos or anything related.

Criminal of you to forget about Asmongold.

I’d argue the vast majority is anti-wokeism. It’s just that the slightly smarter types understand that their fascist views don’t appeal to the general public, so they disguise them as genuine complaints about the game. You’ll see the same thing in the complaints about the fire in space in The Acolyte, even though it’s always been the norm in the Star Wars films.

Linux is self-serving for them because it’s the only way to not have to pay a third-party for licensing the OS. Enjoying the side effects of that is still fine though.

Love is love.

It’s a great game but I wouldn’t call it uplifting at all. Some of the why is already in your comment. Some people may also get frustrated by being in a loop and having to start over time after time. Some of the puzzles aren’t easy, which again may add to the frustration.

They got money upfront from Epic, then if the revenue from the sales exceeds that, they earn 88% from each sale compared to the 65% on Steam.

Why do people even talk about that game? It’s like a pyramid scheme. Do they get paid to advertise it or do they feel internally pressured to justify their investment because it’s not paying off?

Not invading countries also helps.

CS2 being ranked higher than Siege and Fortnite is really misguided. It’s been almost the same game since before the internet. Siege was a welcome improvement on the same formula. Fortnite continues to innovate with new games and new modes, all appealing to a wide range of people and skill groups. Even its main mode sees drastic changes with each season. It keeps things fresh, which is vital for a live service game like those three.

That logic makes absolutely no sense. Look into Google before you take issue with Mozilla.

Bloober are great. Play The Medium if you haven’t. The gameplay is unique, while the story is deep and nuanced.

Blaming the West for Putin’s actions is beyond misguided.

Putin was a KGB officer who personally watched the fall of the GDR, which crystallized his distrust in the power of the people. He had close ties to the Russian mafia and oligarchs even before his presidency. Yeltsin picked him for his loyalty and willingness to disregard the law to save his boss, just as he had Sobchak.

His rise to power was marked by the false flag apartment bombings, just like the Reichstag fire. That was followed by wars and total crackdown on the local media that were independent or critical of Putin, like the NTV channel. His disregard even for his own population was also demonstrated by the response to the Kursk submarine disaster and the treatment of hostages in Beslan and Moscow. It’s also around this time that his opponents were persecuted: Politkovskaya was killed, Litvinenko was poisoned in the UK, and Khodorkovsky was locked up.

The invasions of Georgia and Ukraine were perfectly in line with the above and were needed to ensure that the Russian people don’t get too inspired by the color revolutions in the neighboring countries that spoke the same language and used to belong to the same country. Mobilizing the people against a foreign threat is also a common tactic used by dictators to distract the people from their degrading quality of life related to the lack of civil and political rights, overwhelming corruption, and so on.

The game is still unavailable in 170 regions of the world. The previous version was available everywhere.

Not quite true. At the moment the game is still available on GOG.

Looks fake. Cannot find it among his tweets.