There’s going to be a group of people just furious with the changes being made here, but I am in for all of it.  Love everything I’ve seen so far.

My dad dealt with a lot of racism growing up and while I’ve had an easier time of it, I’ve got my share of problems too. I just get tired of my people getting treated like fragile porcelain by white dudes who want to feel woke. The word savage isn’t gonna hurt us. Institutionalized racism hurts us. Police hurt us.…

Let’s also not forget the entire game is a blatant criticism of being the colonizer in this situation. You aren’t treated as the good guy as you parade around this planet destroying its wildlife.

As someone all for trying to put more thought into the language used and it’s appropriateness going forward, I’ll ultimately have to admit this fell short of convincing.

Agreed. Intent and context always matters.

In my opinion, this article feels a bit damaging to general cultural progress if you’re trying to handcuff someones intent to something they didn’t intend. Historically, there is a million ways we all could be up in arms against every facet of everyday life if we want to deadlock ourselves to the negative and ignore…

You’re super good at logical fallacies. Like, crazy good.
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What an incredibly disingenuous take on what I was saying and how incredibly naive to think a words meaning and context can’t change over time or isn’t inherently tied to how the person is using it in their language.

This feels like the most manufactured of manufactured controversies. I Googled “savage” as requested, and got the following as the first result.

None of the definitions feel inherently racist, and the initial adjectival definition feels like it serves the game perfectly. Sure, the developers *could* have chosen a…

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

I call BS. Kabukicho is full of tourists and absolutely no one bothers you there unless you got talk to them. It’s a tourist spot to even those who don’t play Yakuza games lol. There’s no one guarding the place for god’s sakes :’D

It’s a shame Shinsekai was cut out of the remake, I love Billiken!

It seems like the game was made less out of a desire to explore the possibilities of the monster catching rpg genre and more out of indignation at Nintendo for removing all of those fan made Pokemon ROM hacks off the internet. 

What in the world are you trying to contribute to the conversation with a comment like this? Saying “everyone is entitled to their own opinions” after someone expresses an opinion is, like, completely meaningless. 

It’s almost like it’s an early impression article.

This isn’t a review.

fam, 90 percent of all anime is shit. if you think it’s verboten for a white man to say that mahou shoujo kindergarten panty idols isn’t actually worth the paper it’s printed on, then you do you, but maybe you could try to get some higher standards. dragonball is piss

First article you’ve ever read on The AV Club then, I take it?

There’s nothing unfair about an opinion that doesn’t stop you from enjoying the show and it certainly doesn’t “whitesplain” anything. Christ.

Are you the performative woke demon from "The Good Place?"