I would love to get to a point where videogame discourse doesn't come down to "the games I like are good, the games I don't like are bad". Nothing new consoles can do about that though.
@vhdblood: because believing people first is important, and was discussed on the podcast at length. Accusers come under much more fire. The majority of the time the accusations are things that can't/won't be taken to court and the only recourse they have is to publicly tell people. Otherwise they just get away with it forever.
None of the accused need random internet people defending them, and the accusers definitely don't need people trying to play detective. That's all you're doing. Playing. You will never know the truth. In an imperfect world all we can do is support people coming out with their stories.
I didn't always see it that way, but I was wrong. I have suffered minor abuse and know many more women who have confided their story of abuse in me and I believed them 100%. I try to extend that to stories from strangers.
Abby says at one point (around 18 minutes): "It doesn't matter what is true and what is not true, it matters..."
While I understand the point that Abby tries to make, that any allegations need to be investigated and brought to light (which is absolutely correct), I believe that it matters extremely, what is true and what is not.
There is no way she is saying "the truth doesn't matter, make up whatever you want". I took it more as "hey, it's not our job to put on our detective hats and get to the bottom of this". Same goes for reactions on twitter. A lot of people treat these allegations like they're a prosecutor cross examining a witness. It's almost certain you'll never know the whole truth, and people have to be OK with that.
I could be wrong but I feel like in redoing the character models they completely fucked them up. They don't look like the same people anymore. Everything else looks good.
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