Are you white? Not even a “gotcha” question, just using it to lead into my next bit: there is, was, and will always be a difference between how white nerds and poc who are nerds navigate and engage with these spaces and cultures. You’re right, and I do agree, that things were not as bad in terms of overt racism and…

Look, I just woke up and want to get this out of the way as soon as possible so I can get on my way: you going throughout the article saying “this isn’t racist, just a coincidence,” despite being presented with overwhelming evidence that either WoTC botched up or that McNeil—who had already been a household name at…

@Kikaleeka:

Nah, dude. Take it from someone who has been on the internet and a nerd for almost 20 years, now—this shit runs through all of nerd culture, and we need to start addressing it more upfront.

Why are you trying so hard to defend...*checks list* a corporation that you don’t work for, and undoubtedly does not care for you, and...a known neo-nazi?

Wow.

Or, in other words: we’re not going to criticize the people who made these cards way back when—or at least I’m not—but pointing out how racist and problematic these things are helps—should help—present and future generations understand that we grow and mature from out mistakes and viewpoints.

None of these cards are strong enough, or rare enough, that they haven’t been replaced by better cards multiple times.

That was my line of thinking, at first, and then I started looking at the card itself. Like someone else pointed out: the wording + the “all black creatures” is troubling enough—if a bit, perhaps, really on the nose if you’re going to criticize something—but the fact that it’s cleanse + black creatures + all the…

To make it more abundantly clear: the card is from the Arabian Nights set, so. Yeah.

Yeah, like when I saw Cleanse up there as the preview image my first thought was: “Okay, not that bad. ‘Black Creatures’ is a bit...problematic, but you can always get away with just saying that’s language used by the game.”

The SMT franchise—which Persona is a series of—does usually have you go up against God, or some other cosmic force acting in as obvious stand-in for God; that’s kind of their Schtick.

So, basically a less purposefully obtuse/murky version of the plots throughout the Souls series/Bloodborne.

Did they change every single English VA for this remake? That dub sounds fucking awful.

This is going to be somewhat of a spoiler, but I’ll try to be vague.

So, question. I was introduced to the lore of the game a tiny bit, and it feels like this would be right up my alley—the thing is, with it being an MMO, I feel like I’m 100% too late to jump on board and really enjoy the game. (That, and it’s an MMO, so all the other RPG stuff I enjoy (like party members and dialogue…

Just because you change the preview image for this article doesn’t make the spirit of the article any less gross or weirdly sexist, my man.

I mean, there’s a way to go about that while also writing characters and developing plots well. I say the Monogatari series, despite being very heavy on word-play and visual metaphor, is an anime that relies more on “moods” and aesthetic to be visually and narratively entertaining; same with Gurren Lagann—which the…

It’s really telling that the last “big series” from Trigger have all suffered from the same whack-ass writing and pacing issues. People needed to do some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to defend KLK as some masterful treatise on feminism and empowerment—protip: it was not; fictional characters have no agency—just to…

Look, a lot of people love the series and are going to tell you that the end of it excuses/explains/twists the fascist undercurrent running throughout the manga. They’re going to tell you it’s either brilliant writing, or that the story is “worth it,” despite the criticisms levied against it, because: