Religion and superstitious bull crap is already normalized as ok so you are fighting windmills here. As for Ramdan, if you knew anything about it you wouldn’t use it to attack this religion. It’s a noble tradition of self control and exercise in humbleness. people use ramadan to stop smoking, stop overeating, stop…

Regardless, it’s considerate, and the world would be a better place if more people were more considerate. Doesn’t have to be an issue of being offensive or not; it can just be nice.

Read the article and maybe you’d understand.

Absolutely not the same. What’s happened here is stupid. However, making a game about an existing game, regardless if you charge money for it, is a legitimate threat to revenue streams. Particularly if you’re a stupid company that has lost its way and has a very real threat of being outshined by a free game of your IP…

While I agree with the sentiment there’s really not a lot you can do to check facts when a paper publishes an interview with someone, because the only two sources that actually know anything are the interviewer and the interviewee, and in this case not many people can get into direct contact with The Rock or even a…

I got to the “action” or “more action” choice and turned it off instead of choosing. I like boring movies, okay? >_<

I enjoyed the experienced game creator’s (Colin?) acid-fueled monologue about Pac-Man, though.

This is an interesting case. If he had initially used the six-character abbreviation of the word instead of the six-character word, we wouldn’t even be talking about whether the comment is racist.

Conan was designed for dudes by dudes. Women designing men as pure sex objects for it’s own sake wouldn’t really make him. He’s a male power fantasy.

False equivalency. It’s common to see this argument, but no, Conan isn’t a sex object. He’s a power fantasy.

He gets declared male power fantasy rather than sex object.

.is Conan not a sex object decked out in a loin cloth with bulging muscles?

On the flipside (and I’m biased being a writer), I think nearly everything including this is worth thinking about and therefore writing about. 

What a great article about how someone can have a variety of complex, nuanced—and, most importantly—evolving viewpoints about not just a divisive topic, but all the sexist/misogynistic baggage around that character. Thank you for writing this.

Naga... Naga... Naga... Not gonna work here anymore, anyway!

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I think between siding with an obviously evil, lying witch who wants to take over the keep, kill everyone who passes by, and steal their stuff or weird old men who are raising a child in a keep and apparently charge a toll for a bridge that their family may or may not have built, the choice doesn’t seem too difficult.

“Peer reviewed”? Really? That’s the standard? OK bro. Here are D&D’s designers explaining that its growth/renaissance is being driven by women (D&D’s playerbase is now almost 50% women, compared to 20% back in the 3.5 days, and maybe 5% back in the 1980s), oftentimes cosplayers. And that moving the game away from…

will be even better when we get smart paper or roll up screens so you can grab and go.. rather than trying to play on a delicate 42 inch flat screen that is just waiting for a mad player to slam down on the board and crack it.

I’m hype for the inevitable D&D 5e supplement that is going to come out that details the setting and some player options.

He still has Nebula. You all still have Nebula!