The difference is that when it comes to many of these modern day necessities there is little, of any choice. We all need automobiles, toothpaste, gasoline, medicine and clothing. Not everyone has the luxury of walking to work or the store for various reasons. Not everyone can grow their own food. Most jobs require you…

Fuck after reading that I almost want to take back everything nice I've ever said about the 1st Amendment. I almost want to make reading, writing and even speech illegal for everyone just so no one ever has to accidentally read or hear anything like that ever again.

It is an answer. Actually. I very much enjoyed Shadow Complex and then I learned about Card and felt guilty for purchasing it.

Also legally purchasing that book is basically donating to one of the largest LGBT hate groups in America and that might not be something he or she may be willing to do.

I can only report on what I observe and experience. Perhaps my filtering is a tad clouded, and I am fully aware I generalized quite a bit, but I don't think I was too unfair in my assessment.

As much as the Tropes Vs. Men deal might have been.... under less than decent intentions I do think that the writing in video games do, at times, portray men is ways which are some what ridiculous. I guess it's also such a shame that the project was being lead by that particular the cast of characters as I doubt it…

I think you misunderstand where I'm coming from here. None of that is actually important to me but that does not mean that none of it means something. Do not confuse me with some bleeding heart, thin skinned, champion for equality who's out to protect others from themselves or some other liberal stereotype who's too…

Such harshness and defensiveness serves no purpose other than to underline how angry you are about something which I am neither, criticizing, supporting or throwing my life away for.

So they cast an actor who's partly Asian but doesn't look Asian to play the role of a character who IS modeled off of an Asian stereotype with out changing the character's actual characterization and they think that would offend them less than scrapping the character all together? That's what I don't get.

He could of fooled me, he did fool me, he has fooled other, he will fool other and I can't help but wonder if that was the intent. What I don't get is if that was the intent what was the reasoning behind it and what are it's implications?

Fighting a magma hell beast is tense. Fighting the Egyptian god Set is tense. Fighting off an army of thugs, mercenaries or terrorists is..... shit that's like every game n the market, should we just be use to that by now? Those are the mooks you play with on your way to the giant, animated statue of the Hindu god…

But none of what you describes is necessary except to further a gritty and realistic experience.... and not everything needs to be gritty and realistic.

Yes, also the blood.

I don't think I ever expressed a clear stance one way or the other in my prior posts. I simply do not understand the rational in choosing Kingsley nor do I understand why it is (if it is) so important they had to choose a Mandarin who could pass as not Asian on a whim if his chose to do so.

I didn't mean it wasn't art, it's a fantastic painting. I'm just sore that the new Tomb Raider cranked the gritty realism thing to 11. Old school Lara Croft might not have been a realistic character (either her personality or her physical make up) but when did realism become a requirement for something to be enjoyable…

I'm surprised they didn't use actual mud and tears. Wouldn't that make for a more gritty and realistic painting?

Ben Kingsley is as Asian as Keano Reeves in that while they share a few Asian genes they still look whiter than many white people do. This allows for them to appeal to those who cling to superficial appearances as a metric while still being Asian. Fun fact: Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson both have African blood…

True but it seems more and more that there is an out cry from the public that many of the few interesting and useful scientific endeavors which we do still cling to are a waste of time.

I have a question. Did they not caste the Mandarin as some one of Asian decent because they thought that would be racist of because Asian actors simply aren't allowed to act in Hollywood?

Tyco RCs with guns. A box on 4 wheels with a machine gun controlled by a laptop with an Xbox360 controller.