...or ...and bear with me: Just don’t fucking do it. You’re in control of yourself. You can choose not to say wildly sexist shit without even having to self-monitor in this way. Just, you know, be a better goddamn person instead and then you don’t have to worry about offending the people around you because you won’t…

Jack Burton would have run the goddamn Porkchop Express straight into SEGA headquarters and then stuck a boot in every ass in the room. That’s what Jack Burton would have done. You, sir, are no Jack Burton.

It really is. I don’t know if it’s going to be Logan Paul, but at some point one of these S Tier influencers is going to end up doing a long prison stint for fraud...guaranteed. The problem here isn’t that Logan Paul is *intentionally* trying to defraud investors. I mean, I dislike the dude and he’s a very special…

Fractional ownership is definitely a thing, and it’s fine in the context of a tangible/verifiable asset (...think sports teams with ownership *groups*). I think the very specific problem here is that the whole notion of “vaulted” ownership, where the holding company is maintaining the asset under very nebulous…

Except for the approximately 3 billion ways that physical asset could disappear or otherwise go away and the holding company would just never bother to tell you. I mean, how can you even validate the physical asset for investors at a given time? If it’s in an undisclosed location “vaulted” away then how would you know…

That’s really what I was getting at. So, full disclosure...I’m also a 4k snob. And I have the most robust internet package my area can offer, which is about 400mb. It’s not as fast as I would like, but it works perfectly fine for a house with 3 members who are basically streaming and gaming every hour we’re available…

It’s true. There may yet be a *bridge* generation of some type, where streaming direct becomes widely adopted by an enormous percentage of the user base but physical hardware remains prevalent, but I suspect we’re a lot closer than you think. As an example, I live in a rural college town in Eastern Kentucky, and the…

The up front investment is ...time. What Sony is losing, ultimately, is time to compete in this particular space. There is absolutely a point in the future where MS, because of their massive valuation, is just going to drop the hardware side of things completely and start making even more money hand-over-fist. Sony’s…

The point is that if you’ve spent much time around the diehard modder community the general consensus is almost ALWAYS “MOAR TADDIES PLZ!”
It’s still a big deal for folks to release “regular” armor mods for female characters across the whole spectrum of games. And “sexy” dude mods remain very uncommon. Like, this is…

Are we all just going to blatantly ignore “New Single: FINAL SHITS” sign in the background or ...nah?

I usually think about this from a DM’s perspective. Running DnD or any other long-form ttrpg, I always tell my players, “Do whatever you want, go wherever you want, and make the decisions that feel organically right to you ...but just know ...the. world. moves. on.

And sometimes that will lead to situations where my…

Have you actually watched Critical Role? Damn near every guest spot in the history of the show has been filled by either a performer of color or someone that represents diversity ...of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity. There have been some white folks like Chris Perkins popping in to play a kobold or Patrick…

It’s not a “problem” — it’s the result of a game which was designed almost exclusively by white, middle-aged, dude nerds. The overwhelming majority of the playerbase has been, and continues to be, made up of white Grognards ...though this has just begun to seriously shift in maybe the last five to seven years. And…

I don’t think that’s what folks are doing, though. I mean, it’s the ONLY solution to the problem with the marriage of this setting and this cast as far as the author is concerned, right? I mean, how else do you solve the problem of people without a lived experience roleplaying/acting within a setting they don’t have…

I’m not in any way “misinterpreting” the author’s point. She states it pretty clearly, and I did listen and I took it seriously since she is SWANA. I just don’t agree with the proposed solution which, in a nutshell, is essentially “replace a portion of the cast with a cast that meets the ethnic/cultural association of…

edit for clarity: “...and knowing that East Asian people have suffered from [omit: a massive lack of] stereotyping, tyepcasting, and under-representation...”

Being a fan of something doesn’t mean I can’t be critical of it; likewise, being critical of something when you’re not a fan doesn’t make you more objective. Bias is a thing ...sure. But I can full-throatedly criticize plenty of things I love...and have...professionally.

Here’s the thing, again, because you don’t seem…

Also, just as an aside ...you have zero idea what the cast may be learning or experiencing within the context of the campaign. If you don’t think roleplaying can be reflecting or ACTUALLY introspective in a productive way, I’d challenge you to go watch campaign 1 and then do a little reading on what Taliesin was doing…

I’m fully aware of what the article is saying, thanks. You have no idea what they’re experiencing or otherwise; the point of my comment was that’s what roleplaying strives toward ...or should ...in my estimation. And if you don’t think folks *learn* things both in creating homebrew worlds and playing in them, well, I…

The problem of lack of representation among the core cast isn’t a problem that can be *solved* (and honestly I don’t think it needs to be). The problem also isn’t that the aesthetic is just window dressing...that’s true of ALL fantasy worlds because even when they have real-world analogues they could never possibly be…