It’s Thursday, so it’s time to break down TheGamer’s best features of the week. In the past seven days,♕ we told PlatinumGames to stop it, and get some help, we dove into the world of Magic: The Gathering content creators and how they’re being exhausted by a relentless PR cycle, and we looked into the sexist conversations around Adriana Chechik🧔.
Kratos' Stoicism Reflects A Clumsy But Sincere Attempt To Untangle Toxic Masculinity
Kratos is a pretty masculine guy. He’s buff, fights gods, cuts down trees and then carries the logs on his shoulder, and more, but freelance writer Harvey Randall pulled back the curtain to look further at this charmingly clumsy depiction of toxic mascuꦅlinity. Males are all violent in God of War and 🀅seek to control the world around them, and Kratos is no different.
His anger co🦄nsumes him and has blunted his other emotions, harming the way he cares for his son, showcasing the generational impact of toxic masculinity as Kratos tells Atreus to shut off his heart to the pain. Kratos is continuing a gruelling cycle, one that he seems stuc🐭k in himself, but Atreus should shake himself free of that path and break from the shackles of his father.
We All Owe Adriana Chechik A Lot More Respect
Chechik has been in the news this past week following an accident at TwitchCon where she broke her back in two places following poor safety procedures at a foam pit. She’s a Twitc🐼h streamer and a fairly popular one at that, but a lot of the conversation around her has focused on her being a former porn star, belittling her for her past, and highlighting just how little respect there is for adult performers. One outlet even tweeted, “Former porn star Adriana Chechik gets her back blown out” before deleting the post.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:As editor-in-chief Stacey Henlౠey points out, Chechik has leapt from one career that’s maligned to another, as women on Twitch are routinely put down and diminished, with sentiments that they&rs🐷quo;re only popular for their looks being push🧔ed continually on the platform. And all of this boils down to one thing - people like to humiliate women.
Jon Stewart's The War On Gender Stands Up For Trans Kids In Ways The Mainstream Never Has Before
The Problem With Jon Stewart debated The War on Gender and it was a far c𝄹ry from the usual conversations happening in mainstream media. Rather than putting trans people down and treating them as lesser, Stewart tore apart arguments about trans women in sports, anti-trans legislat🐼ion, and outdated views on sex and gender. These kinds of videos, as lead features editor Jade King highlights, are unfortunately rare, and Jon Stewart’s segment should set an example for other ce🍷lebrities and cis creators.
Magic: The Gathering Content Creators Are Exhausted
Magic isn’t slowing down. In fact, the last few months have been filled with previews for Dominaria United, Unfinity, Warhammer 40,000, and Alchemy: Dominaria, leaving creators exhausted. And that’s just as the 30th-anniversary celebrations begin. Hype is building, but Wizards of the Coast is leaving creators in the deep end without a paddle. As tabletop editor Joe Parlock writes, that means 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:content creators don’t get to 💎turn off.
Joe spoke to a few other creators like TCGPlayer content editor Emma Partlo📖w who echoed that sentiment, “The second you start earning regular money from something that was once your hobby, it is now your job.”
PlatinumGames Needs To Give Up Its Live-Service Plans
Babylon's Fall was a huge failure for Square Enix, immediately losing players as poor reviews flooded in, all culminating in its support ending prematurely. And yet developer PlatinumGames isn’t dissuaded and seems to be pushing on with even more live-service games, though as Jade King argues, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it shouldn’t. It’s time to give up. Only 15 people played Bablyon’s Fall and most thought ꦕit was crap. It’s ti💮me to try something new.