I immediately went to Kotaku and posted this in the comment threads of some of Evan Narcisse's (excellent) writing about race in gaming, then thumbed my nose and sang "NANNER NANNER NANNER" even though it's the internet and no one could hear me.

Boom.

"Yes, I'm aware that people who are asked and say no get to live. That is not what I am talking about."

The author points out more than once that most people do not avail themselves of the assisted suicide option, if it is available. These people who opt not to die are not then killed anyway.

Is there a way for me to recommend a post more than once?

"So, why didn't he just say that instead of mention random tweets?"

Nilin is not a real person with a real choice about how to define herself. She is a collection of decisions made by game designers. Those game designers chose to make their hero a woman of color - half-white, maybe, but also half-black - and then chose to not let that decision color anything else aboutthee portrayal.…

For the same reasons Halle Berry and Barack Obama are and have been their entire lives. Either you're being deliberately disingenuous or you're a Martian.

I was going to be snide and say, "Is one of those features feathers?"

Is...is that you?

There are people that thought San Andreas didn't take place in America?

This is terrible.

It looks like someone in that Kryptonian armor is using heat vision. It could be Zod or Faora.

Yes! And the reason I'm saying "project" is because these aren't humans, they're digital representations of them that we know aren't real but our emotions don't care. We're not really picking up signals, and we know that, but our knowledge of that doesn't alter our reaction. We endow this thing with motive and intent…

I really think that Jar Jar and the Gungans are cool character designs. Too bad about the characters themselves.

Sure, but this study is about how we react to that information. We know a robot is hostile because it's shooting us, but it's a robot, so we shoot it. We know a bad guy is mean because of the look on his face, so we hate him.

What's more, it's easier to project intent and emotion onto something that looks human. I don't know what goes on in the mind of a floating eyeball, but I can surmise that an attacking humanoid is an asshole.

This is oddly intuitive. I would imagine we're, in general, less likely to be mad at things that aren't human for their actions.

I don't disagree.

It's not really a question of liking it or not, it's a question of whether or not there's a reason to believe Spock should know that.