It is wild that him not caring about the writing on Family Guy made it worse when him dropping all creative input on American Dad is what helped the show really shine.

This is not the intergalactic computer network we were promised.

Reading through the complaint, they do not name any specific examples. They simply state that in 2019: “BRAND and KIM were disgusted and alarmed when they began noticing over-sexualized anime figures depicting minors being sold on the US website. Many of these sexualized figures were fantasized versions of underage…

Yeah, while you can argue that there are other parts of 4chan, there’s little question that the “famous” part of 4chan in recent years has been the right-wing/white supremacist side of things. HBO’s not making documentaries about the users posting cats.

Yeah these are some strange things to bring up in a legal filing. If there is any kind of logic here I would guess it’s to try to paint Good Smile as having bad character therefore the illegal stuff they allege must be true.

There is no evidence of this at this time. It’s just what these two people allege, though Good Smile denies it. Specifically the complaint claims that they were told by a higher up that Good Smile acquired the website sometime in 2017. This would be after the site was sold to Hiroyuki Nishimura in 2015, so to claim…

This is ‘generic dying midwestern town that got swept up in this mess’ erasure

Agreed. I’ve seen people pointing to stories like this of why mandates are going to cause problems, but I’m of the mind that it’s an opportunity to root out people who have no business being in these professions in the first place. I’ve had to deal with these kinds of selfish nurses my entire life trying to get care…

It was by Bioware yes, before they did Mass Effect. But it shares more in common with Dragon Age: Origins in my opinion, even sharing some of the same mechanics in certain areas. You can definitely see how KOTOR leads to Dragon Age, and then that gets refined into the Mass Effect era of Bioware.

Yeah, I hope that this is sort of a feeler they’re putting out to see if there’s enough KOTOR love out there for a new game.

Pokemon would be such a good fit for Lego. I can just imagine them selling something like this Mario 64 set, but it’s a Pokeball with stuff inside.

I would love to see a Lego take on a Boo House, those designers would probably come up with some crazy mechanisms appropriate for shenanigans.

Wow just mentioning the Nvidia fairies threw me for a loop. Instantly that era of graphic card demos came flooding back to me without even clicking the link.

I saw some observers remarking that the recent moves against what types of media are allowed all have one thing in common; they are the kinds of things you’d do if you were trying to discourage “fandom culture.” That China has spent years trying to become competitive with Western, Korean and Japanese media, and…

I have no knowledge of Chinese so I can’t speak to that, but listening to the Japanese dub, the subtitles are definitely just the English script and not a translation of the voices. Most of the time the script isn’t too far off; like the article says it’s more in how it’s delivered where you can feel big…

I understand the concern, and once held it myself, but I think the difference in my opinion now comes from the fact that, at least in America, conservatives have already become an authoritarian power with a discriminatory stance, and are pushing their supporters to follow. It’s not a ‘what if’ scenario. They’ve…

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Boycotts are free speech as well though; if someone wants to express their opinion in that manner, they have as much right to do so as this guy did to say the stuff he did. Companies don’t exist in some sort of purely neutral space, they are woven into society as much as anything else, especially in a capitalist…

It’s only a loophole if you pretend the Supremacy Clause (federal law supersedes all local law) doesn’t exist, which the Supreme Court’s majority is choosing to do and hope they can get away with it. It’s why they did not hear the case and just threw it on the shadow docket, because any constitutional lawyer worth a…

Tbh I often consider how often do I expect to be swapping when choosing between digital or physical. If it’s a game I feel like I’ll be playing repeatedly versus one playthrough, I tend to go digital. But overall I still prefer having a physical copy mostly out of concern for if the game will be de-listed in the…