Cactuarman
Banned
Well that certainly is better than Destructoid's review of Xtreme 3 which called the game sexist and racist. I left Dtoid for a year after that. I actually don't read them anymore now since politics comes up too often for my liking.
I love that checking out Kotaku lead me to this article!
https://cosplay.kotaku.com/how-one-male-cosplayer-became-mai-shiranui-1829161435
That's cool! (I will say I have had an issue with the way Kotaku praised cosplayers in the past while attacking the characters they cosplayed as offensive in other articles. That's some serious cognitive dissonance!)
I noticed that one of the comments on the Xtreme 3 article mentions USGamer becoming cynical and mocking people who like Japanese stuff. Boy, is that true from my experience. Bob Mackey is a writer there (I haven't visited the site in two years so I don't know if he's still there) and he was the most insufferable person in gaming journalism for me. I'm serious. I used to read 1up when he worked there and he called me a pedophile for playing the Hyperdimension Neptunia games.
The last time I read USGamer was his review for Star Ocean 5 where he wrote that censorship should be on the table. I asked him why he thought that in the comments and he acted like it was absurd that sexy characters ever had a place in gaming before telling me to stop caring. Glad to see some others felt that site was mocking this stuff, too.
Going off of your last few posts - yeah I really hate when writers/journalists/commenters/etc. just shut down anyone who challenges them in good faith. To me that's the worst thing you can do. If you have a controversial opinion, fine, but we should at least be able to discuss it in an honest manner. Don't get defensive and assume anyone who disagrees is hysterical or crazy or something. A lot of people would probably consider a lot of my opinions "SJW"-esque, but I also really like fan service and don't want to see art censored. So I've certainly seen defensive reactions from both sides. It's frustrating.
I actually hadn't really heard of Mackey but after a quick google search - wow. "Insufferable" seems like a pretty good word.