This is Michael “Knightmage” Wilson as Afro Samurai. The outfit is great, but it’s that cel-shaded make-up that…
This is Michael “Knightmage” Wilson as Afro Samurai. The outfit is great, but it’s that cel-shaded make-up that…
“Someone has a different opinion” is one way of putting it. Here’s another: A person in a position of power thinks that people with less power should stop acting like victims. This person, who helped create a game called AXE Body Spray Pogo Xtreme, argues that making games is not a job but an art. Therefore, he says,…
I have two major takeaways from this:
Probably a similar mechanism at work: Social progress means that the intersections of poverty and race start to vanish. When race become less indicative of power and status, those who were once “high status” now believe themselves to be just as susceptible as everyone else to poverty. They now have something new to…
When my son was in kindergarten, I consistently spoke up as the parent of a kid with autism, bringing those issues into conversations, and I worried that it would mark me as the Weird Mom, but after a couple of years I saw attitudes changing among the parents.
1. Last summer, I watched with pride as my 4-year-old daughter raised her foot, said a “kee-yaw!” from the bottom of…
Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but…
I wanted a singleplayer campaign in the latest Battlefront. You probably did too. You know who else does? John…
“Once we’re in international waters, every woman on the ship gets to make love to whoever she wants,” Sean David…
By the time that Power Man and Iron Fist #125 came out in the late summer/early fall of 1986, I’d already learned…
I think the problem is that they hit the reboot button in order to “do away with baggage” and “get back to basics”, but then they end up taking the baggage back on for various reasons. They can’t please all the fans and they invariably find bits of discarded baggage that they sorta liked and want to recycle in some…
Cosplay has always prided itself on its ability to transform fans into their heroes, wherever and whoever they are.…
Rand Paul dropped out of the Republican presidential campaign after he came up shy of five percent in the Iowa…
A joke has structure. It has a central rule. Setup, punchline. The setup produces a tensed, expectant state; the…
One of Nintendo’s biggest releases in 2015 is the sprawling 100-hour adventure Xenoblade Chronicles X, released…
Last night, while wandering in Fallout 4, I heard something strange in the distance. A man on a megaphone was…
Monday afternoon, video emerged of a white man approaching a small, black girl sitting in a classroom, noosing a…
Ever wonder what the world would be like if the British Empire had been built upon a working class of reanimated…
Some think that being poor is simple. You don’t have enough money to buy a lot of stuff, so you’re forced to buy…
They are all insane people. Even poor, stressed-out, occasionally lucid-seeming John Kasich: bonkers. Pathology is…