I’m sure there are people in Asia wondering why entertainers in the US don’t get blacklisted for things that would probably put them out of work in most other countries?

I mean, the irony? *I* also review films professionally. And I’m a white male in my 40s. And yet, I can read Brie Larson’s comments and not feel attacked. I dunno, man. I just don’t think saying that we need to hear from some non-white, non-male voices in the film criticism space, and that my opinion might not matter…

The vernacular is established, and will remain until people no longer find it useful.  You’re fighting this fight about 15 years too late.

Fair enough. I was speaking in general, not specifically this case. And in relation to your information, this proves the point that historical is important in order to retain these details that people don’t know about.

But, again: The first issue you have is that she doesn’t want *you* to see the movie. *But she wasn’t talking about you*. She was talking about professional film critics (unless...*are* you a professional film critic?). So, saying she doesn’t want *you* to see her movie, or that *your* opinion has no value, is not…

You’re right, how you choose to be entertained is up to you, but your reasoning is stupid. It’s funny you invoke the MAGA chud argument, when your entire initial post is the same kind of thing that the MAGA chuds say.

Gotta love* how willing these idiots are to completely ignore history.

Yes, there were knighted women. In fact, there were several Knightly Orders exclusively for women, including The Order of the Hatchet (Catalonia, part of modern-day Spain) and the Order of the Glorious Saint Mary (Bologna, now part of Italy)

As for…

Including minorities in games with European medieval settings isn’t shoehorning them in. It’s historically accurate.

I am absolutely loving the “intolerance of intolerance is the most intolerant of intolerances” sophistry going on in some of the replies here. It is delicious.

In fact, I personally advocate for actively trying to offend them at every opportunity. 

Including gameplay options that support magically removing minorities and women for the comfort of racists is kind of offensive you fucking troglodyte

If no matter what happens you’re going to offend someone, choose to offend the fucking Nazis.

How the fuck is that hard to understand? 

“Whatever stance we take officially, some group of people are going to be upset with us”

Imagine being “offended” because your game includes PoCs and women. That’s not what’s happening here. It’s not like this game is going for a serious tone or historical accuracy. Let’s not “both sides” this crap with false equivalences.

I think the lesser of 2 “evils” here is to let the babies deal with seeing a minority in their videogame.

who’d have thought a game with 100% deus vult aesthetic and 4% community moderation, on the PC, would attract this crowd.

They are putting in “Would you like to view minorities” toggle, which, yeah, thats pretty offensive or at best INCREDIBLY tone deaf.

If it had been just one incident, I could buy the idea that he was so caught up in what he was doing that he wasn’t really thinking—not as an excuse, mind you, but as an explanation—but that he did it multiple times despite people telling him it probably wasn’t the brightest idea? At that point, it’s just dumbfuckery.