This is very tough territory for all involved. I was hired to replace Michael Beattie as Mordin Solus in “Mass Effect 3.” I had never played the game, so I didn’t even know I was replacing someone. I found out when I showed up to the session. My agents had sent me the audition, referring to it as an “alien scientist,”…

It actually clearly does in this case. For one thing, there are other areas of Tolkien’s writing where he does explicitly refer to elves as white (though not in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to my knowledge), and within the context of what fair skinned meant when the books were written the meaning is clear.

Not only that, but the elves we do have descriptions on are almost universally described as “fair” or “fair of complexion”- it’s the hair and eye colors that differentiate them: Only Vanyar and members of houses with Vanyar descent have golden hair and silver hair is unique to the ruling Teleri, etc.

“Tolkien’s writing never expressly identified anyone as white;”

I’m gonna catch a lot of heat for this but here goes. If I can respect a person for their sexuality because who they choose to be with has no bearing on me, why do I have to care that someone is customizing their single player game to not see things they don’t want to in theirs?

Lying to the jury, getting caught photoshopping iphone photos, being heard on tape gaslighting depp saying no one will believe him, cops not arresting depp or giving heard domestic violence because in the female cops estimation - heard was faking, lying about donating money, lying about taking a dump in a bed, lying…

Sorry, but I disagree. The fact you believe men only can be toxic, just for being men, and this woman can’t be toxic, manipulative or violent, just for the fact she is a woman, it’s the worse case of mysoginy.

The vast majority of the population outside of insular little corners of the internet that get up in arms over things like this.

Same difference.  Sex sells.

Overwatch has at least 5 stiletto-heeled characters with nipped waists btw. Maybe 90% of Blizzard Entertainment’s female designs are like that. Assassin’s Creed has those too, so it’s hilarious you listed those games. I haven’t played most of the others, though extremely ironically, Horizon’s main character actually…

Marketability.

Well, let’s see what happens when VR gets big, like - really big in the future. I’m sure people will mostly pick airbrushed sex symbols or cute creatures as their avatars. Some hipsters will use avatars that don’t conform to the stereotypical beauty values but when they get less job offers and social contacts they…

I can’t think of any reason to gender an AI other than porn.

Hi, buttplug.io dev here. Time to share my sex tech history knowledge since they still haven’t made that a Jeopardy category.

Okay, Stephen Ddungu here. Firstly Jeremy, I didn’t know you were going to make it a race issue, I’m quite disappointed to be honest.

Here’s a fun story from the Apple history books. I was one of the first 20 hires for the company when they decided to open a store in NYC (this was in the fall of ‘01). I grew up in NYC, the son of a NYPD cop and someone who had a variety of jobs in SoHo so I was well versed in shoplifters/usual retail madness. Apple,…

Even with the zombies the series was a hit. A lot of that is from just putting the work in which is why a game like Back 4 Blood was a dud.

It is a Sam Raimi film after all.

Congrats to you all. I did my (tiny) part by not reading on any GMG sites. I’m really glad the strike is over because I missed the articles.

Super happy AND proud of you all!