Sections played: A few hours (Brett: 3, Tim: 6) Podcast breakdown: 0:49 Dark Souls 56:52 Break 57:25 Reviews & Feedback Issues covered: an exception, the thing we mention all the time, the look of Western fantasy tropes by Japanese developers, exaggerated architecture and the third person perspective, working on the same style of game for so long, picking female characters, pushing against normal choices, picking classes and not understanding what all the stats mean, cheesing the final boss in Demons's Souls, picking a rogue character, figuring out what the builds are, not being a transparent game, accentuating the moment to moment, punishing gratification, allowing players to customize the experience, the in-game messages that other players can leave, tutorialization messages, beautiful grotesquerie, series that don't maintain consistency, whether you can plunge on the Taurus Demon, a Singing Review, the mudcrab merchant and all the books in Skyrim, lore reasons, a listener makes his own game, lack of accessibility vs usability, vibrancy in a medium, stagnation, "I guess this is my life now, I'm Dracula," rebuilding a temple in Morrowind, being pointed in the direction of everything vs not, being grabbed by the weird friction. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. We briefly set it in its time before going on to make our characters and discuss the outset of the game. Damon plays an American father attempting to secure his daughter’s release from incarceration in France, where she has been convicted of murdering her friend.Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on Dark Souls, the 2011 breakout from From Software.
The actor is currently promoting the movie Stillwater, released at the weekend to mixed reviews. And then it gets represented that that’s what you believe.” It’s stupid, but it is painful when things get said that you don’t believe. “Somebody picked it up and said I said gay actors should get back in the closet. Right?” he told the host, Ellen DeGeneres. “I was just trying to say actors are more effective when they’re a mystery. In a 2015 interview in the Guardian, he said he thought gay actors were better performers if they kept quiet about their private lives, comments he later claimed were “misconstrued”, during an appearance on the US television show Ellen.
It is not the first time that Damon has prompted concerns over his views on homosexuality. Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ rights charity in the UK, describes the word as a homophobic slur and among the many “terms of abuse” still commonly used. The episode was trending on Twitter on Monday morning, with numerous other users mocking or criticising the actor for his comments. “Matt Damon reveals he JUST recently stopped using the word as a slur after his daughter forced his hand…like what?” O’Keefe wrote.īilly Eichner, the actor, comedian and producer, tweeted: “I want to know what word Matt Damon has replaced f****t with.”
In another tweet, Ben O’Keefe, head of diversity and impact development at the digital film studio CreatorPlus, called the Sunday Times article “such a weird interview”. It is not clear from the Times interview which of them wrote him the letter. I do not use slurs of any kind.”ĭamon, 50, who won an Academy Award in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, and his wife, Luciana, have four daughters ranging in age from 10 to 23. He added: “I have never called anyone ‘f****t’ in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening.
To my admiration and pride, she was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was.” “ in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly. “I explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003,” Damon told Variety. The actor later gave a statement to Variety, claiming he had never used the slur in his “personal life” and saying the the Sunday Times interview “led many to assume the worst”. Travon Free, the bisexual comedian, actor and Oscar-winning director, said in a tweet: “So Matt Damon just figured out ‘months ago’, by way of a ‘treatise’ from a child, that he’s not supposed to say the word f*ggot. Damon, who in 2017 apologized for saying sexual assault was “ a spectrum of behavior” after a similar outcry, has faced criticism from LGBTQ+ activists over the Times interview.