I fail to see how bills like these expand rights while allowing for individuals to prevent others from accessing basic needs. It is one thing to say people should take their business elsewhere in the case of businesses, but we saw how damaging that was pre-Civil Rights era. Further, this extends to housing and making…

Maybe I’m misreading your comment, and if I am I apologize, but would the presence of a minority member of the crew automatically make them a token in your eye? Further, I see the concept of groups being “forced” to add minorities to their projects all the time. It just seems like you don’t even give minority staff a…

Basically, the dancers did nothing wrong and Microsoft and/or the organization these dancers belonged too really messed up on thinking about the mood or setting. Given his happened after a luncheon for women in gaming, it does have a bit of tone-deafness to it. It’s just the little things and some planning that can…

Further, I’d add that there were times Sterling did not know he was playing a Digital Homicide game because of the sockpuppet accounts they’d use. They had used at least 5 last time I checked. So already having a bad experience with these guys I can’t blame Sterling for talking about them further when this kind of…

Something tells me the $2000 they would have spent to get 20 games on Greenlight for $100 each would have been better spent making individual games better than flooding the marketplace and being prime fodder for criticism by Sterling.

You know, Sterling was harsh against Scott Cawthorn’s first game and it he managed to turn that around and make Fivr Nights at Freddy’s, a good game with actual effort. What is Digital Honicide’s excuse? They have 20 games on Steam right now and two look like the same exact game seperated only by the position of…

How does Jim encourage his followers to be horrible people? He’s actually on the record multiple times telling fans to not harass developers. I know trying to say both sides are equally wrong seems like the best route, but not always.

Eh, Newton thought alchemy was real and you could sift through Revelation and find hidden codes about the End Times. I’d say Tyson speaking outside his field is pretty minor.

If you can legalize and get prostitution regulated I’m pretty sure it will be a far more honest and competent profession that working in Congress.

Well, if we follow the advice of my friends on Facebook, we should just drop bombs in civilian areas, kidnap and murder the family members of terrorists that may not even be involved in what they do, ban Islam as a religion from being practiced in America or better yet just nuke the whole Middle East. Because that…

I’m a dude and yet those guys just sound legit creepy.

Coming off of that Xenoblade controversy where I think a 13 year old character had swimsuit costumes removed upon coming to the West to seeing this woman accused of supporting pedophila (which doesn’t seem to be the case) made me really confused. What is the stance being taken here by the anti-censorship crowd? Maybe…

“This kid was just wanting to get publicity because of his religion!” - Conservative talking point that never seems relevant about Kim Davis using her faith to get publicity.

Most classrooms these days seem to have around 30 students in them, probably more since I left high school. Assuming a teach is armed, all a potential shooter would have to do is kill the teacher because they may be armed and then turn their attention to the class. Even if another teacher or security officer comes to…

I may have my disagreements with President Obama’s policies, his drone strike policy in particular gravely disturbs me at times, but I just cannot hate the man. I can’t say how history will judge him, but I will always respect him. If anything, his presidency shows us we have a lot of work to do as a nation and the…

Well, in my mind if the ESRB rating system didn’t have as much stigma as it does then developers and publishers could be freer to get away with a lot more. Conversely, Japanese or foreign devs may not feel they have to censor as much for localization. Its a stretch, I know.

No. If that is how it comes across I apologize. Rather, I think the ESRB system is more of a threat of censorship than a character slapping their butt being cut from a game or a lingering crotch shot.

Well, those kinds of games aren’t my forte, but I think Steam, and console makers and publishers, would be stupid to not capitalize on those kinds of games. You think if the floodgates would open that Japanese developers and publishers would fine no need to alter things in localization?

Thank you for the information. I didn’t mean to imply the ESRB banned games, but that the AO rating was essentially a death sentence. You are correct about Amazon, but I’m thinking more along the lines of Steam. Didn’t they have a problem selling adult games in the past and one that was allowed to sell being censored?

I honestly think the ESRB’s rating system that effectively bars games that get an AO rating from being sold on consoles or stocked in stores, both physical and online, is far bigger censorship concern than having a character slap their butt or having a crotch shot removed. I know people can be concerned with multiple…