Well, hey, if you are disappointed Cortana turned evil than that just means you are a young fan who doesn’t get subtlety and nuance according to Frank O’Connor, franchise director at 343, in a TIME interview.

If that is how you want to see it, cool. It just wasn't my takeaway.

This is only the first spin-off movie, I question the sense in ho-humming about when will a male lead will star in a Star Wars movie. Poe was important in TFA as was Finn, I never considered Rey to be the lead. You are right she will be important, but Luke was important in three films and Anakin was important in three…

Brah, TFA had two male protagonists, three counting Han, named Finn and Poe. Shoot, I'm a guy and I can identify and look up to Rey. What is your major malfunction?

Did they not watch Force Awakens? It had like two male protagonists.

Eh, I know Finn asks Rey if she had a boyfriend, but then he follows that with “cute boyfriend”. Maybe I just suck at getting romance or whatever.

I found Scott’s response to criticism to her writing disrespectful, though I felt the same way about 343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor saying the people who didn’t like Cortana becoming the antagonist in Halo 5 as “young fans” who don’t “subtley and nuance.” But with the Tacer controversy and now this, to be honest, it…

I think the only difference that would have happened is a bigger thread and then upon the game’s release more often same kind of responses we've seen already. I think Blizzard just nipped this one in the bud early.

Seems like lines were already drawn to begin with since the thread in question was growing. Blizzard did what devs with forums tend to do, respond to threads and concerns with the fanbase. Garuntee you the change would have been noticed anyway and talked about.

Me and my friends get crazy playing Mario Kart, never mind narrowly escaping death in a rocket spaceship with a broken laser cannon. They're kids, it's what they do.

I liked it. But if you didn't that's fine. No real need to be angry about it though.

I love how some responses to opposition to these bills includes the fear that pastors will be forced to perform gay weddings against their will. Like, that is not true.

And yet condoms are still, literally, better than nothing.

There might be feminists who believe what you say about those two situations, but I’ve never heard such things from feminists as a whole. Druken sex where both parties confirm it was consensual afterwards? Maybe some might argue it is sill rape I suppose, but not “feminism” as some nebulous hive mind. I’d actually…

I’ve legit heard someone try to argue that the Irish were treated worse than any other race in America. That shit takes some real cluelessness and ignorance. When I know people think that it makes any argument about being persecuted for being white hard to take seriously. The fact you can sit back and imagine the…

Given that Rapp seemed more in line content-wise with the people who criticized the localization changes in XCX, it feels as though they kinda scored on their own net with this one to get her fired. Had she actually been on the localization team she’d probably be one of their better advocates. Sure, she’s a feminist,…

I’m not sure Overwatch doesn’t already have this, but why not different victory poses? Don’t like the Tracer’s initial pose? Use a different one. Seems like the people who don’t like the first one would have different options and the people for it could opt to keep it or also have more options.

I once heard someone bemoan that people born with Down’s Syndrome are born less and less each year. It made me feel like a dick to even wonder if that was good or nor.

Well, I’m trying to make hamentaschen cookies tomorrow. Sure, it isn’t Purim but I’m Gentiling it up a bit by putting miniature candies in the center rather than fillings. ;p

I learned about the developer’s story on NPR’s Radiolab and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Maybe the personal journey doesn’t matter to consumers, but given all Ryan, his wife and his son went through I wish they got a better shake out of this. I get it, that’s game development, but to see the work Green put into the…