Because certain people have worked very hard to make racism and offensiveness socially acceptable again.

It hasn’t been “innocuous” for a long time now, and people who say it is are either lying to themselves or simply lying outright.

People’s refusal to acknowledge context doesn’t mean context doesn’t exist. By now, I see most of these arguments as attempts to generate plausible deniability.

Some folks here are struggling with the idea that a thing can be unacceptably offensive for reasons other than racism.

Have you asked her how she feels about your doing it? That would be a good place to start if you’re serious about determining whether it’s offensive or not.

Says a guy whose username exists for the sole purpose of offending people.

I don’t want Anthem to fail, even if it’s not the game for me. I want this game, and BioWare as studio, to succeed.

Goblins are not stupid, and if you’re playing them as stupid, you’re doing it wrong. Goblins are clever, slippery little fuckers, and they don’t brawl, they snipe. I write a whole blog about how not to play monsters the way you just described. My very first article was about goblins.

It was also free, but don’t let that knock you off your high horse.

What’s your fucking problem?

Ratings for TV series are much less reliable than ratings for movies. The more niche the show, the more the rating gets inflated by die-hard fans.

Yes, it did. Either you didn’t pay close enough attention, or you joined Netflix after the system was already hidden. I started using Netflix in 2003.

You know what? Screw Netflix. At one time it had a user rating system that made recommendations that were reliably on-point. Then it changed its “Recommended for You” listings so that they were no longer based on that predicted-rating system, but rather on whatever direct-to-video garbage Netflix wanted to pimp. But…

And that’s where you’re wrong on pretty much every possible level.

The Witcher 3’s sex scenes were also constrained by external factors. The game has sex in it, but it’s not a sex game.

As a onetime copy editor who wrote a column on games and pastimes for an alternative newsweekly, I settled on the following style rule for games: A public-domain game (e.g., chess, poker, crokinole) was treated as a common noun. Proper nouns within the name of a public-domain game or variant of a public-domain game…

It’s “Kett.” Kinja needs a copy editor, and I will do it for you if you pay me.

Planting my flag right now: I will vote for no one over age 60 for president in 2020. You had your chance, boomers. You even passed the torch and then had the chutzpah to snatch it back. You’re done. You get the hook. No more of you, ever.

Batting in the light
My reptile-lidded eyes

No other E ability is as disruptive as Mercy’s, except maybe Scatter Arrow.