I'm troubled by the assertion here that having more minority/female characters will somehow make video games appeal to a larger audience. Minorities and females already consume most media by identifying with protagonists that don't look like them - I'm skeptical that more people will play video games specifically…

In the room the women come and go

I once had this argument in a playwriting seminar. Someone tried to tell a Latina playwright that it didn't matter wh0 was cast as the (Latina) characters in her play because the story was universal, and that she might consider removing things - bits of language, terms of endearment, cultural references - that made…

The bigger problem is when people make arguments that those Asian characters - despite all evidence to the contrary - are white people.

Her Cloud Atlas porn parody is gonna be so meta.

Guns don't affect people. People kill people, but when they play video games. Or something.

It's a fungus, right? Scary.

Why do we think this is a Prince of PErsia reboot?

And that short guys also internalize this, and that it's all dumb.

Of course there's a connection.

Thanks, that's actually really helpful.

Yes, some.

I'm so confused by so much here because I know evolutionary psych is supposed to be bullshit. Someone help me navigate this.

When I worked at a Whole Foods they didn't let people take home food at the end of the shift - some of it could be put out again the next morning but what couldn't be was mostly thrown out instead of allowing the often-worse-off-than-I-was employees from taking any home in containers, or giving it to, I don't know,…

I'm totally with you. What does putting tits on armor really do, anyway, besides sexualize it for...whose sake? The enemy's? Are there no sports bras in the future?

Yeah what's going on with his voice.

Internet racists couldn't get past the fact that a black girl was cast to play a character more or less explicitly described as black - they complained that they were "tricked" into caring about a black girl. Could you imagine asking them to believe that a biracial actor was a heartthrob? Don't you know that "White"…

There was never a point in our (recent) evolutionary history when sex did not make babies, or when babies were made by something that wasn't sex. It probably never got "figured out" - it just was.

"The description defies parody. $100,000 of taxpayer money is going to help develop a video game about a female alien sent to earth to rescue her own planet. [...] Although it is the smorgasbord of politically correct elements that makes this project entertaining to write about, the bottom line is that the government…

There's also this: "When Crystal, a Cuban American daughter of a Marielito family and a masculine-identified woman, shared her business vision with Ivette, she knew exactly what she wanted to call it. She could not imagine naming her masculine clothing line for female and transgender bodies anything but Marimacho, the…