No one is talking about responsibility. The question is, which is more important? Not feeling the need to show empathy because it’s not fair toward the victims of racial hate, or doing whatever it takes, even if it offends sensibilities, even if it offends one’s own sense of justice, to take a step forward? This guy’s…

So I’m the guy who approved of your 20xx comment, and I bought the game last night. This game is to Castlevania what 20xx is to Megaman. In fact, they’re extremely similar in some ways. If you like 20xx, I think you’ll really like this too.

No one starts out great at their craft. You get better by doing.

It’s easy to say that from the outside in, but I suspect you wouldn’t like people stealing your work, even if your work wasn’t widely recognized or acclaimed. Not everyone is a Mozart, but that doesn’t mean it’s somehow better to rip off Nickelback. Even the worst writer in the world doesn’t deserve to have something…

20XX is freaking amazing. It turns out, you really can go home again.

It’s true that those are core cliches, but as a sometime writer, this many coincidences across one piece is simply not possible. It’s a giant red flag for plagiarism. It’s not just word choice, it’s sentence structure, order of topics covered, time spent on each area. If you take the original review, then change words…

Yeah... it still kinda stings, though.

It’s never Lupus. 

Surprisingly good. Worth a watch.

*sniff* Oh Duff McWhalen,. You were too good for this world...

Welp, we’re boned. Or no, wait. Didn’t conservatives say it was super-important never to confirm a Justice during an election year?

Nevermind, it’s clear you’re just looking for targets, not discourse.

Dog whistles are intentional.

I’m afraid that’s not at all the argument. First, please note that it doesn’t contain the n-word. As you can see, it differs by a letter. Second, if dog-whistling racists have used it, you can’t stop them from doing it any more than you can stop someone from calling somebody a “mother-trucker”. Third, if you’re a…

Pretty sure you’re just making shit up now. Cheap isn’t a stereotype that gets tossed at minorities unless you’re Jewish, because by its nature it means you’re well off but stingy. Now you’re just conflating ‘poor’ with ‘cheap’ when they’re nothing alike. There’s nothing wrong with admitting a mistake, but you seem…

Uh, well it does sort of matter. ‘Niggardly’ has no link to racism in any form, it’s just a coincidence. Yet people have been fired for using it, and forced to apologize to the public for the public’s own ignorance concerning it.

God, he’d be certain to say it then... 

AMERICANS

I was going to use the board-game example myself. I think the technical term for this is that the a game situation creates an “undefined state”, something we also use in computer science. It basically means, the rules, the laws, or the stated functionality of the program do not say what is going to happen from here on…