No, I’m definitely thinking of Marvel Nemesis, I even remember how dark and washed out the art looked, and how cheap the cover of the first issue felt. But I WAS super surprised that Injustice did turn into what appears to be one of DC’s most well received alternate universes with all sorts of tie-in stuff. I think…

Like, I thought the sequence was

I was a regular comics reader back when this came out and I swear I thought the terrible comic was based on the game, not the other way around. Wasn’t it even an alternate universe story? Was the game really based on the book? Because there are SO MANY better books to have picked from!

Lmao I fully agree! I was talking about FB as a whole banning leftbookers for saying cracker. Which happened regularly. No one in my group or our affiliated groups ever got in any sort of trouble from the groups themselves for saying it, but we lived in fear of what Zucc would do. We wanted to keep FB’s insane,…

This is a bad, confused argument for several reasons.

Lol I was afraid no one would have any idea what I was talking about on here if I said leftbook. Like, I was so involved in that space for so long, then I abandoned social media and everyone I meet irl has no idea leftbook is a thing. And yeah, I remember sending a BAGEL PLACE of all things a screenshot of one of…

Other stuff that didn’t rise to the level of bannable in FB’s eyes included memes about running over protesters (even in the immediate days following Charlottesville), threatening someone by posting pictures of their house, or posting pictures of dead babies because someone mentioned pit bulls in a completely…

I get the general impulse of social media moderation teams to want to keep their instaban list secret in order to make it a little harder—not impossible, but just slightly more difficult—to circumvent the auto-detect or whatever, but what they need to understand, and what I’m convinced they will never understand, is…

I adminned a leftist group on FB for years. It was well known among our corner of the site that cracker could get you a temporary ban, as could sometimes just saying someone was white. We even started using work arounds for that last one, like using “yt” instead, but eventually whoever the faceless assholes were that…

THANK YOU!!!

One day I’ll learn how to properly quote inside kinja. One day.

“At Activision Blizzard, we are working hard to create a more inclusive, supportive, and rewarding environment, and thanks to your input, we are making progress.”

I’m not an artist or a mechanical designer, but, barring that little horizontal L with the small line design element, I’m not seeing a lot of obviously copied elements. Most of the lines, going from the smallest and most particular all the way up to the general body and silhouette, look similar only in that they seem…

I’m not an artist or a mechanical designer, but, barring that little horizontal L with the small line design element, I’m not seeing a lot of obviously copied elements. Most of the lines, going from the smallest and most particular all the way up to the general body and silhouette, look similar only in that they seem…

Yeah, “fine people on both sides”-ing this feels on brand for him

tl;dr Activision Blizzard is a symptom of an underlying disease of our economic system. Treating the symptom without treating the disease will inevitably lead to more “symptoms” appearing, and the regulators’ actions by way of failing to even attempt to treat the underlying disease will be indirectly responsible for…

Like I said, good for the state treasurers, I guess? You know, for doing something? But massive employee welfare problems exist at a preponderance of corporations, and at some point, the kinds of people who (a) claim that they can exert some measure of control over those labor conditions, such as the state treasurers…

Oh good! Great to hear that the people who manage large investments in thousands of corporations (and thereby must be able to exert some measure of control thereof) are on the case! I’m sure they will have this nasty business wrapped up in short order and will help gently guide Activision Blizzard away from this…

I’m not nearly as attached to Halo maps from the sequels, but I have insanely nostalgic memories of playing Combat Evolved with my roommates in our first college apartment about a year after it came out, particularly Prisoner and Hang ‘Em High. We actually made a fantastic drinking game out of it. The rules were (1)…

I was actually thinking about exactly that. How my econ classes taught me that businesses will do the right thing because of, lol, the “profit motive.” But it seems to me that, under the vast majority of circumstances, about the most that the “profit motive” will encourage is that they remember to take your wallet out…