Well...glad you took the high road and realized otherwise.

I'm from NW Indiana, which is practically the same place (see: Gary). I know what you mean (I wouldn't make the same generalization, but okay). But, again...what he said is that "It takes all [his] willpower to convince himself" that it is not the case. It sounds like any less than 'all' of his willpower would fail…

Yeah it's good that you're absolutely certain about things, because that's never ever a gamble.

People of all ethnic backgrounds come in all flavors of personality. We are not a monolith. Watch some documentaries or something...wth.

I have an idea for an open-world game without guns...but alas: I can't do it alone, and I don't think many people would buy in because of the setting. It'd be cool though.

I think he might have different upper lip contours in the second one, as well.

Had to add:

Anonymity. That's what makes it so hard, apparently. I can hardly see many of the raging social issues we have today if these people were all occupying the same space as those they denigrate and demean.

Don't let the rage wash over you. More marginalized people are becoming empowered by the opportunities granted by social media and the internet in general. Voices that have long been silenced by the masses are now free to be heard.

Let's also remember that POC, people of color, are not all just 'black'. Some people are conflating those two terms, when really a person of color is more accurately described as just non-white.

Good point, and I think we should all be more open to these possibilities. I personally have a dream (far off as it may be) of starting a black-owned development house and cranking out at least two or three solid game IPs that I've been noodling on for a few years.

To your point:

wrong culture, but relevant.

You win for the post. The artist wins for the image. If this is an actual series with story, I might have to get into comics again.

Derivative: I see a lot of Steve Smith in The Squid.

Have you ever heard of 'stop & frisk'?

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Sounds like room for opportunity to me...there've been plenty of things we've never seen before that ended up working. Let's see what the final game plays like, first.

So you're saying that, by definition, a 'game' requires tactile input of some sort in order to be played. So, when we get to the point where there's a neural network and people are playing holograms with their brains a la The Matrix or some more pertinent movie/book franchise that currently escapes me, these won't be…

All it takes to play a game is a mind.