xpatriciah
Patricia Hernandez
xpatriciah
Kotaku's EIC. Beats: internet culture, gaming communities, fandom, Pokémon, and Nintendo. When not at a computer, typically boxing or reading.

Oh, this is going to get so many weirdos going off on one about how because Japan does something distasteful in something they are selling to a global audience we can’t criticise it (even though they will criticise the “forced diversity” of titles developed across the world). Read more

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I don’t play many JRPGs so I can’t speak to that genre specifically but we’ve seen this recently in the fighting game space where after the reveal that Bridget from Guilty Gear was a trans woman, you had people of the absolute worst weab variety coming out of the woodwork to claim the following in sequence: it was a… Read more

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The Yakuza series is weird because they’ll do a really heavy scene about not bullying or accepting certain people and then turn around and have an extremely sexist side character or horribly written female character.

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These people are sad. Every time they cry about this sorta think I just think about Ghost, slowly removing his mask so he can suck his brother-on-arms throbbing cock.

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Creatives, here is a handy tool for determining the racial makeup of all fictional content moving forward... Read more

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i somehow won a game with Agnes controlling my deck. a location spawned her for me... and defeated my opponent. Read more

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I played a round where the first location added a random card to each player’s hand and got Agatha. She made some truly terrible decisions that should have cost me the game. In round 5, the card was played and I gained control of a location for the first time. I don’t remember what was left in my hand, but there was… Read more

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I often think about the “Pygmalion Effect” in that connection, where the outcome we expect to occur is in effect a self-fulfilling prophecy, because our expectations shape our actions and the choices we make, which brings about the expected outcome. (An experiment where teachers were told some children chosen at…

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I love when my opponents snap the first turn, tbh. All it does is take a tool out of their toolbelt for later - they lose the opportunity to play psychological games with me entirely. Because a snap on turn 1 means nothing. Read more

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Everything I’ve read mostly shows the core game is still very solid fun and all... Read more

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I hope that she’s able to get out of this situation safely! 

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there was this camgirl (adult content streamer), well known Read more

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Looking forward to hearing how this is another grift, that it’s done for ulterior motives, and that it should be ‘taken with a grain of salt’ for reasons that thinly veil misogyny. 

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Wholly unsurprising. Can’t wait for this to be the thing that breaks the flood gates and gets a load of OnlyFans ‘stars’ ousting their partners for e-pimping. It’s almost certain to be a (far too large, if more than 0) portion of the userbase’s circumstance.

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Man, threatening dogs is next level evil.

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Some things to take away from this a little bit extra: Read more

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