Thanks for posting the link. Annoying it didn’t post.

I’d like to see someone pick up the threads for the Marshall case. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been to know that many KKK members were STILL on the force after you sued. 

I feel like this list should continue back to the 1987 Firebombing of the Marshall family where the LMPD refused to give the names of active members of the KKK who were working in the LMPD at the time.

Link to court case.

There is SO little information about this online.

This feels like as good a place as any to remind the internet of the Firebombing in 1987 of the Marshall family in Sylvania, KY (a suburb of Louisville).

The court case details numerous active members of the KKK in the LMPD at the time.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828/355/368664/

There is a…

Paul Muad’Dib wasn’t just prescient. He was eerily prescient.

Every GOP commenter ever.
“Look at this one comment section!”

Don’t get me wrong. I’m pissed, too. But I hate that the Right will just point to bloodthirsty comments like these and “bOtH SiDeS” the Left.

Good conversation and glad to see it happen in the context of Lovecraft Country where a shit-ton of good work was already being done.

Thanks for the article

The demo has a lot of promise, but I’ll wait for reviews to buy.

Demo was a lot of fun, tho. 

The demo has a lot of promise, but I’ll wait for reviews to buy.

Demo was a lot of fun, tho. 

I love that I can clearly see Carl doing this in my head.

Shake would be standing outside Carl’s bathroom window like, “Carl! I can hear the water running in there. Carl! I have a problem, I mean we have a problem old buddy. I need you for five minutes. Five Minutes, Carl! A problem, and an opportunity. You can make…

We just watched a couple thousand people LARP as revolutionaries. five people got killed, and a number of elected officials are pretending like it’s just normal stuff, so I think we can dial back our expectations for critical thinking just a bit.

Hell. I’m only just entering my 30s and I am excited by touchscreens. 

This will likely get buried.

I would love for a triple A game to have space for the experience of transitioning, and not merely the existing aspect of Trans experience.

Like, you’ve got polyjuice potions already in the lore.

It’s a topic that could end up in fetishistic-inclusion-or-nah land, though.

Just using a male…

After reading the other comments here, I think I’ll be the odd person out.

I still love D3.

My partner and I have spent almost 2k hours playing d3 on different consoles. We recently lost about 1k hours of progression to a console error (Sonyyyyy!) but then we just kind of shrugged it off and started up again during…

I think that’s absolutely a fascinating discussion to have.
The “branding hellscape” aspect of media aimed at children is a long discussed reality in pop culture.

Gotta get those little ankle biters into rank consumerism somehow!

*deeper sigh*

When someone on the right sighs about “Identity politics” they are literally upset because their identity isn’t the center of the conversation.

The term “identity politics” is one of the most ridiculous examples of RW media successfully using language to paint its opponents with its own problems.

In…

Correct. Liberals looking at this like “aha! This is the end of the GOP” sure do learn slowly how effective fearmongering is at reforming the GOP base when it comes to voting time. 

I can feel the “it’s just a game, bro” from a mile away. 

Same, but PS5.

It looks pretty (most of the time) and the systems are there, but there’s so much jank. It clearly needs more development space. 

Really dig this discussion. James Baldwin’s conception of white fear / white supremacy as a cancer that eats the souls of white folks looms large for me.

To that effect, I also really really dig the language, “we have the symptoms, but we don’t have the disease.”

I totally agree.

Spec Ops was interesting in its goal and disappointing in its methods of selling it’s message (your example come to mind).

You want a truly challenging narrative, maybe Vietnam has the historical distance.

Drop a paratrooper into a province in Vietnam. Observe atrocities. Lose your weapons. Have your…

A very good counterpoint.

Spec Ops was a wholly unique game that played with the concept of player complicity and outcome for player violence.

I’d place Spec Ops in the same class of game as The Stanley Parable or Bioshock for shifting the player’s “fun” away from game mechanics and onto self-awareness of actions and…