The option to vote with your wallet does not preclude vocal criticism, nor should it.

“That being said, this is still just a form of art, and shouldn’t necessarily have to be one size fits all. I firmly stand 100% for human equality, but our recent expectations for ALL media to represent ALL groups, ALL the time, is just a little ridiculous.”

“We have no idea what their development cycle was”

“They shouldn’t have to justify”

Imagine using this “2 year old game” argument in the age of perpetual open/closed beta early access constantly in development games. The game has not been finished. It entered closed beta 2.5 years ago..  It has been in development for nearly 8 years.  At what arbitrary point in the development process did you decide…

There are good reasons and bad reasons for making choices.  There are reasons that you find justifiable and reasons you dont.  There is nothing hypocritical or wrong about liking/accepting some reasons and disliking/rejecting others.

“2 years after release”

How is “demanding” (which, let us be clear, in these contexts is just a polemicized, more emphatic synonym for “asking”) a change to a game *still officially in closed beta*, that will likely continue to be modified as a “living” game for years to come, ridiculous and entitled? At what point does one lose the privilege…

“This coverage is probably going to give them more publicity and exposure than they would have otherwise had”

“On the other hand, don’t demand that a developer change or edit their game after release to align with your politics and get riled up when they don’t want to. It’s their game, their vision, they owe you nothing.”

I really like the borderlands cosplays. The way they incorporated the cell shaded aesthetic looks great.

“ they do however care when impotent ideology is injected into beloved fiction in a gambit to win political points”

I mean those two things dont have any necessary connection to each other.  The pantheon of Olympus undoubtedly had great powers.  And yet they also had fragile egos.  Being fragile and being powerful are not contradictory qualities

“out of laziness, realism, lack (at the time) of women gamers, and the designers being men who just didn’t think of women.”

I see plenty of people disagreeing in the grays. Their “arguments” are trash, but they are nonetheless visible

“Creators should of course be able to profit from their work for a period of time” 

On the contrary, the idea of a company or person controlling a piece of media that they created and have exposed to the public is logically absurd. It is a destruction of value, which must be fueled by the waste of significant scarce human resources. Images, sounds, designs, programs, text, &etc are now infinitely…

I thought it was the Dylan McDermott/Dermot Mulroney Paradox 

Is there a political thinker whose thought does not contain precedence for justified violence? Outside of the most stoical resignation to the state of the world? Most people have a limit. Complete non-resistance is not exactly tenable. Marx wrote in response to immense human suffering and misery. To qualify that world …

I knew a guy who wore a t shirt saying “Sherman Rides Again” when he went to conventions in Atlanta.