This is an important step in video games being recognized as art in Germany, which is a big win. There’s still a ways to go before it’s treated the same as any other work of art dealing with Nazism in some fashion there, as we have to see just how selectively each case is holistically judged until some sort of…

It makes me super happy o know that it is as amazing as it seems. It’s not even like I feel excluded at a normal Con but I honestly don’t get to connect with as many Black Nerds (not that we are rare or anything), so I’d love it if only for that.

It’s an amazing event.  I wasn’t able to go last year due to moving states but this year I hit it up on Friday and Saturday and loved it.  Next year I’m getting a room at the hotel so I don’t have to commute in each day.

I’ll agree with you there, he did do a fine Akuma.  

No love for the dude playing Akuma?  I thought that guy was fly.

They all look like they’re having so much fun.  Just enjoying their awesome blerdity.  I’m stoked for all the people who got to go.

‘dat Blackfire. Also really like the green face paint on the Bowser, gives it a nice touch. And really loving the Zoro and Storm Shadow, too. All in all, some really fantastic cosplay in that video.

yeah, the word cute gets overused, but her smile really is super cute.

To clarify, the censorship was for symbols alone. There was that exception clause for a case-to-case basis in art and education. Games weren’t officially recognized as art until quite recently, and selling them as education is even harder. Also it is against the law to lie about the whole situation, to belittle it, to…

As a Black Cosplay, I am:

-Upset that I didn’t know this existed.
-Sad that I didn’t get to go.
-In love with all the amazing cosplay.

The girl in the Rock Lee costume has an infectious smile.

“It was one turret, Torbjorn. What could it cost, 10 dollars?”

As a video game fan for most of my life, I am completely baffled by how I managed to read “gates” instead of “games” multiple times, making my way halfway through the entire article, confused why Kotaku was covering what I considered shocking political news.

Problem is, government censorship didn’t help Germany stem nazism. It made sense after the war, maaaaybe even during the cold war, but after that there was no rational reason for that other than pearl clenching hysterics.

Because Lucio’s skin is a legendary and Sombra’s is an epic.  Epic skins are just recolors using the colors of each nations flag.

“I heal all my DPS equally.”

I don’t think anyone on this site will be remotely ready (read: willing) to give up their keys in their 70s. My grandmother (who is 94 and in great shape) and I are close and it has given me a new view on the elderly.

Exception that proves the rule. He’s 74. He’s a professional with a lifetime’s reflexes to draw upon. But at some point even he will be too old to drive safely on public roads. I will, you will, everyone will.

the plural of anecdote is not data. 

For this, regretfully, Miata is the answer, even though he thinks Euro is the way to go