1.) Is it whitewashing if you’re made Asian?

Does whitewashing have the same history of negative connotations in Japan, or are you applying western standards to another culture? Isnt that just as bad?

Non-Japanese fans of Japanese game: We are mad that a character from said Japanese game appears a slightly different shade of color in Japanese cartoon series based on same Japanese game!

Speaking as someone who caught H1N1 the year there was an outbreak of it at PAX, and who spent ten days after the convention absolutely flattened, barely able to get out of bed:

Hahaha, the pettiness. You could be right or you could be wrong. You have absolutely no idea if they are backing out cause no one wants to go to these conventions right now. I have seen this, telecom has had people drop from their big ones also. Be it right or wrong, people are currently afraid and companies are…

I think there’s some degree of hysteria that’s actually productive for containing an epidemic -hell, we could probably prevent a few flu deaths here and there if more people took regular flu more seriously - but it’s way too easy to go past that.

Precautions seem extreme until there is an issue. In this case they are likely remembering when someone with H1N1 went to PAX a decade ago and got a lot of attendees sick.

‘but it’s not like anyone expected Sonic to be a powerhouse’

its a kids movie based on a long and (weirdly) beloved franchise. it was going to do well 

Jezebel wonders (suggests, really) that Warren’s disastrous performance somehow is due to sexism, all the while ignoring that Amy Klobuchar is doing just fine.

I mean, Raphie learned that lesson with his Little Orphan Annie decoder coin, and it was also Keanu Reeves’ whole storyline in Toy Story 4. Realizing you’re being relentlessly and shamelessly lied to by monolithic corporations every second of every day from the moment you understand spoken language until the very…

Warren’s big mistake was all about healthcare.

Just don’t tell the folks over at Lifehacker.

I’ll always be fond of Bioshock Infinite’s MechaGeorges. Founding Father’s going to read you the Bill of Getting Your Ass Kicked with a Mini-Gun.

everybody always forgets the Shaq Fu sequel happened.

Me as well, even though the title of the post insists that we must all love them...

Gotta admit that I never liked these.   She had talent, of course.  But the style did not mesh with my mental images of the world at all.  

I mean I would be pretty mad too if an illustrator who didn’t even attempt to read the story was put in charge of the cover. Did she at least get initial instructions on what to draw?

I was never a fan of that art. Even as a 12-year-old, it was obvious to me the artist had never read the story.

I mean he’s justified for the artist not knowing the source material in this instance?

That is an interesting story. When the console was first found, it was confirmed that the unit was able to play Super Famicom cartridges as well as the test cartridge that came with the unit (the only known software made specifically for the device), but the CD Drive and audio output were completely non-functional.

The…