There are tons of lost books, movies, and other forms of art that disappeared solely because it was illegal to make copies and the people responsible for them didn’t care and allowed them to be destroyed. It’s a travesty that we continue the trend, and have added video games to the garbage pile.

Pretty much. And that’s the absurdity of this whole situation. You can go online, check ebay, buy an old legit copy of the game, allowing the owner of that copy to profit 10-1000x more than the publisher/copyright-holder ever did when it was originally sold. Meanwhile, the publisher/copyright-holder doesn’t see a…

I enjoy Gal Gun, Senran Kagura and the Neptunia series, because I enjoy their cheesecake presentation and humour. Without those, the games would be pretty boring and creepy.

which is a different thing that is not racism

He didn’t pirate anything, you might as well say GOG enables piracy because of their no DRM model. All he did was enable a way for people to remove bloatware from software they already owned. We have seen numerous occurrences where a DRM server went down and games that we owned and paid for have become useless. Just…

Next on the agenda - the ethical and/or moral responsibilities of developers/publishers leading to overpriced bloated products that more often than not perform poorly for paying customers.

You’ve been on this site long enough to know the arguments against DRM Lozzle, only one of which is “I don’t want to pay.”

I used to work at a publisher that had certain alleged involvements with a certain alleged mob family.

“trying to sack individuals they don’t agree with is disgusting” ...um half of this network of site’s articles are “gotcha” videos or tweets demanding mob justice 

My understanding of it is that, much like in the west, a “good” girl does not do, much less enjoy, such things as having a man lift up her clothes to reveal her panties.

I could be wrong and someone correct me if I am, but Asian culture often finds arousal in “purity”, so a woman that is embarrassed or resists is considered more arousing than one that just wants it, because a woman wold naturally be resistant if she was “pure”. Asian culture often finds more arousal in teasing/etc as…

“I assume you agree that white actors shouldn’t play black people or Native Americans in blackface or redface.”

But she isn’t Russian. She shouldn’t be taking away roles for actual Russians either.

I’m gonna get a lot of flack for this but my take is Scarlett Johansson is conventionally attractive and a bonefide star, proven as a lead capable of carrying a movie?

Or use Flying Witch logic where you’re not really sitting on a broom but just floating along with it. 

I love those books. I read them over and over growing up, and I still reread them as an adult. I never once thought that maybe Caroline had a point about the Native Americans.

I adore the books and think it’s an important portrayal of the common attitudes of the time. Readers should also understand that Wilder prettied up the horrifying frontier stuff and made her books more of feel-good advertisements for farming.

Let’s assume that Elizabeth Warren is elected in 2020, with Kamala Harris as her veep. Attorney General Keith Ellison is having lunch at Dominique’s. (Is that still a thing? If was when I lived in the SC area.) word goes out on Gun Nut Twitter. He is surrounded by angry men dressed like Richard Spencer. Some of them…

Ma was repeating a common refrain of the era, which I believe is originally attributed to the genocidal General Sheridan.  That doesn’t mean that Ma wasn’t a bigot, but kids today should have exposure to what this country was really built on so they can understand why it is deeply flawed.

Silencing those you don’t agree with? Sounds kinda..... fascist.