Yeah, I feel you. That line is usually not mine either, but...

It’s weird to think I’m now in the camp of people thinking everyone’s overreacting to everything (hopefully just for this particular instance anyway), but I agree. It wasn’t fat shaming, it wasn’t mistreating depression, or gaming, or anything. It was about a person who’s lost their way and copes with it by escaping…

I have never said the before, but people are really trying to make it out into something is is explicitly not. I get it, people gotta get clicks, but come the fuck on. Do some people really not understand how sever depression and anxiety can manifest itself?

Right? I loved this scene. It felt so human and was utterly hilarious. People are weird.

> Rocket makes fun of him because Rocket is an asshole who makes fun of everyone. 

THIS. All these “fat Thor” takes are just so bad. Thor was fat not because of video games, but because he feels personally responsible for deaths of half the universe and is depressed about it. His mom tells him to eat a salad because she cares for him, and knows that being overweight isn’t healthy. Rocket makes fun…

“he’s probably an alcoholic”

I think it’s more of a definite thing. He nearly screws the mission on Asgard when he goes to get some “legendary wine”... that is before he sees his Mom.

> Perhaps it hits too far close to home for many so they feel mocked by this

I think Thor and Rocket lost the most. Thor lost his family and most of Asgard to Thanos and feels like he failed again when Thanos fulfilled what he had promised. That guy was not in a good place. The movie takes swings at him and it’s fine, no one knows what he was going through. But the fact that the movie let him…

> It’s too bad that this poignant scene happens in the midst of a collection of tired stereotypes of gamers

>Nintendo is buffing and nerfing characters based on Elite Smash rather than competitive tournaments.

I’ve always thought that competitive smash has twisted what smash brothers used to be. Not that I have anything against it, but now people in just casual play insist on boring rule sets/stages - and consider everything else cheap/no skill. It all detracts from the spectacle of the game, it's party game roots, and the…

Back when I used to play this after the NEXT update I usually hung around a busy space station with several million credits in my pocket with the intention of buying the nicest ship that wanders in but I end up just taking pictures of the ships I think stand out and stand on ships (to stop them from leaving) in case I…

“a long time ago” huh. You're pretty naive. 

Exactly just do everything except the face paint. Being black and trying to dress up like my favorite white characters, I never cover my face in white makeup or anything. People know who I am and appreciate the costume for the costume, not for the skin color. 

The shitty stuff didn’t all just happen “a long time ago.” Systemic oppression still exists and has effects to this day. People of color don’t complain about racist systems that keep them oppressed from 1865 or 1963; they complain about racist systems that still exist in this year of our Lord 2019. That’s why this…

Yeah that’s not how any of that works, but it’s an adorable effort. No one is accusing any of these people of “Blackwashing” when a black cosplayer dresses as non-black characters. They don’t paint their skins to look white or Asian they just wear the costumes and they look amazing. If I cosplay as Kiryu from Yakuza…

This. She didn’t have to change her skin color to express her love for the character. 

That’s not how whitewashing works.

ehhhh no, she wouldn’t. Random twitter comments don’t mean anything.