They were promised their portrayal would be handled tastefully and there was a consultant on set for that purpose. Sounds like what they were promised when they signed up didn't come through in the production, so good on them for complaining and walking out. Agreed, F the entitled people who are making this…

The reaction to criticism from shitty comedians (or their publicists) always seems to be this condescending attempt to explain what satire is, as if the person criticizing them clearly must not understand the concept. They wouldn't be complaining if they understood how important the work is, how it high-mindedly…

Somehow I doubt that Sandler is making Blazing Saddles.

Zippers and belts. Lulu's entire dress seems to be made up of belts.

Everyone always drops the "at least happy protagonist isn't as bad as brooding/surly/emo protagonists" line, but it makes no sense. Tidus whines more than any other FF lead I can think of, and they all have some angsty scenes.

Was it Earth-normal gravity? The characters seem to be able to jump or fall as far as they want depending on what the cutscene needs.

Yeah I wouldn't say it never happens, or that it isn't taken too far. It's possible that people with trauma have made associations between it and seemingly innocuous things, like mentions of TV shows that triggered them in the past (if there's a graphic rape scene in something, it's not a stretch). But it depends what…

lol, appreciate it :P

There's a long history of that in segregationist politics. I remember reading about some county or state where almost none of the elected officials actually had racist beliefs or convictions, but they upheld those policies because that was where the inertia was. No one wants to be the first person to break ranks. I…

"You won't believe what the guy representing himself as a pokemon with a penis for a face had to say in 2008…frankly, I'm not sure this is the face for such a beloved institution."

But he's doing it by mocking the language itself, which contributes to taking it away from people who use it to describe painful, isolating experiences. The idea that "oh, outrage addicts have already ruined those terms, so I can use them to piss people off" is a lot more damaging than them being misappropriated or…

Yeah, it seems the threshold by which you condemn a person changes a lot based on whether you like or want to like them. It wouldn't be hard to put together a similar list of shitty/bigoted jokes Jon Stewart has made as evidence of kicking him off the island (there are such lists out there already). But 20+ years of…

Yeah, it appears to be about the Trevor Noah blowup at first, but it's really piggybacking on it to lash out about a completely different thing.

This is so passive-aggressive it'd be hard to get behind even if I agreed with the premise that people are destroying comedy by politicizing jokes with almost no political or social assumptions. I think the Trevor Noah thing is excessive, but Patton seems to be ranting about a whole different thing.

Than Jeff Ross? Yeah, probably.

Yeah, as I was learning about privilege and social justice stuff, I'd often hear "it's not our job to educate" and "you don't get a cookie for trying", which struck me as adversarial. I get the frustration of people who deal with marginalization and discrimination, and how it's unfair to put the burden of education…

The joke is shitty, but it can reflect a lazy, internalized bigotry and dismissiveness rather than an active hostility.

It's pretty hard to find a comedian who hasn't made lazy, shitty jokes at the expense of some marginalized group at some point. I don't think it excuses them, but the perspective that condemns Trevor Noah forever as bigoted and problematic also condemns Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who both have a long history of…

My childhood had consensual sex with Michael Bay

Most of what Zahn did was really good, and most of everything else was not. But it would be impossible to unify 20 years of clutter and make something coherent in a new episode, unless you just filmed the Heir to the Empire trilogy (which I would be incredibly in favor of).