Nationalism and patriotism don’t have to be bad things though. Loving your country doesn’t mean you can’t criticize it when it fucks up and fails to live up to its ideals. 

Forgetting in the process that the Mandalorian is actually a completely new character created for the show. 

Didn’t the books also start a new series set a while after the games with new Witchers and Witcher schools? 

Fine, they are paying for the person that shoots the Javelin. Same thing.

They do not have a lot of Neo Nazis in the government or the military. That is Russian propaganda. There are some Neo Nazis, just like there are some Neo Nazis in America. Would you argue that the American government is in the wrong if its defending its own territory from an unprovoked attack by another country, just…

You don’t think that this man’s bravery is part of why so many people are thirsting for him? 

Afghanistan had no resources that were of any real interest to us. Iraq has oil, but neither Europe nor America actually relied much on Iraqi oil. In fact, the US bought more Iraqi oil back in the day when Saddam was in power than after the invasion. The idea that these wars were for oil or other natural resources is…

Its not when they are the ones defending your country. Donating to the Red Cross is all well and good, but they can’t stop the Russians shelling your city, the army can. But those Javelins ain’t cheap.

Yeah, but if you got a gun with a very high rate of fire, which AA guns tend to have, it can still look like there is a solid line of tracers. That footage isn’t necessarily unrealistic.

I think Catalyst suffered because they went full Ubisoft on it. It takes the original game, which was a focused and tightly designed game around a few simple concepts and defied a lot of the design tropes of its time and turns it into a triple A open world with all the associated bloat. Meaningless collectibles,…

A game feeling clunky or cartoony has nothing to do with the engine.

I honestly don’t see how I’m misrepresenting the authors argument or criticism. This is the core of the authors thesis:

The argument the author makes is literally that they should replace at least part of the cast with people with a SWANA background in order to do a fantasy culture more justice. What do you mean slippery slope, we have literally reached the point where some people are getting ‘woke’ over a fucking DnD campaign.

In role-playing games with predominantly white players, even with the most intricately built worlds there is still a lack of connection between the cultures they play in and the way they play their characters.

Yeah but there is no better that they can do. According to the author, the original cast is fundamentally incapable of doing right by any setting that isn’t traditional ‘European’ fantasy.

Why would I need to show ownership of those things. Or rather, why would I need to use the blockchain and why is that better than say tying those things to a user account? Like how Steam does. What benefit does the blockchain have over the model that Steam uses? 

You give the US far to much credit for the failure of other socio economic systems. At best the US messed up a handful of already unstable governments with weak and unstable economies who tried their hands at ‘socialism’, likely hastening something that was inevitable anyway.

People vastly overstate the influence of the stock price on a companies strategy and business decisions. People act like a company constantly frets over the daily price changes. Unless a stock takes a nose dive, no one cares and they just focus on the same metrics any other company focusses on: quarterly results and…

Its not like privately held companies don’t look at their quarterly results and compare them to previous years results and its certainly not the case that these companies don’t care if they grow or only look at it from a long term perspective. And its not like privately held companies don’t have to worry about getting…

If you are Sony or Microsoft why would you not want games like COD or Destiny to be multiplatform? This isn’t 2007 anymore when the question of PS3 or Xbox 360 was still relevant. The console market has matured, Microsoft and Sony are now well entrenched and the market relatively fixed, so platform exclusives aren’t…