Let’s play a game of pretend.

It’s only ambiguous if you don’t understand the joke.

What it does for social commentary is enough for me!

I feel your pain.

Pretty sure that’s the point and why we see him rot as a display of progression. There’s a reason that the triumphant music stops when that final blow is landed and a requiem starts. Shadow of the Colossus starts out about a game of hanging on, but really it’s a game about letting go. Which is why it’s the last thing…

That’s kinda the point of the game. You’re supposed to feel bad about killing the Colossi and everything leading up to it. It was meta WAY before Bioshock was a twinkling in Ken Levine’s eye

Considering a tempting offer for a few minutes and refusing it is, by definition, honest. As humans taking part in society, we’re often presented ethical choices that could make our life easier in one way or another. I never take the dishonest choice. I don’t think it’s fair to judge’s someone’s character from his…

“I was merely pointing out to the person I was replying to that his knee-jerk reaction of “Borrow a fucking stick.” was ignorant and impractical.”

What makes you think the person is ignorant? Others here have said the same thing while also saying they understand the difference between sticks. Maybe the person you…

The idea waa that replaying the bracket would be fair to everyone Quackbot beat in pool 8. Unfortunately, they screwed this up and made Eliver replay his matches as well.

This is why I have never called myself a feminist or ally or whatever. I mean, I believe in equality, for women, for everyone. That makes me a feminist according to the definition I’ve been given, but then again I’ve met a few so called feminist dudes that just... seemed a little suspect to me. Like they were trying…

I posted it above, but it bears repeating.

Really, attack on transwomen? When did they ever attack the character on the fact that she was a transwoman? The joke is consistently that she acts like a rude asshole and drives over people consequence free. Her status as transwoman is completely irrelevant during the whole show.

That’s right. As I mentioned in a reply somewhere else, to notice this all you have to do is look at how the most sensitive, intelligent character, Kyle gets treated by the PC movement. He gets harassed, followed, and mentally abused until finally a brow-beaten Kyle gives in and confesses to their beliefs in a speech…

A creator cannot be held responsible for those who fail to understand his/her material. Especially when — and this is a statement I can’t verify, but I would be shocked were it not true — there are significantly more people who DO understand it, and DO appreciate it for what it is, than those who don’t.

I don’t think this is true at all. Go back and watch some old episodes. There’s some very plain opinions by the show’s writers that even though there are racist and sometimes terrible jokes that are in the very least insensitive, the overall viewpoint is that people who have that offensive outlook lose in the end.…

I was 19 when South Park first came on. I was a casual fan. What the show is doing now isn’t so much fixing itself, or even going after white people specifically (other than those who want everyone to “check their privilege”), but rather being the cynical optimist that those of us from Gen X typically are. Ten years…

Very well said. This is the kind of respectful, well-reasoned argument that help convince people of both political stripes of the vital need for moderation and restraint - which is the one and only solution for the problems facing the West today.

I agree, but I don’t think we even have to take the insecurities angle.

I think they (incorrectly) see it as advocating for a kind of status quo mindset that it really isn’t and they aren’t used to seeing a fictional work that isn’t ostensibly conservative take on aspects of social justice. To me, this really speaks…

Nope, not in the slightest. I think Trump and the Tea Party are the worst thing to happen to America since the Great Depression. I not only voted against him, I put in real work trying to stop him, both before and after the election.

It’s interesting to me that you guys are discussing the change in South Park’s humor under the premise that the show has gotten less funny, when I actually would very much argue the opposite: the show has gotten exponentially funnier over the years, peaking in the early to mid 2010s and still holding on to a lot of…