That’s because a lot of the images were digitally altered. And not just the apparent stuff like the little swoosh under her in picture seven. I mean stuff like the light diffusion in pictures three, six, and eight. They spent a lot of time editing these images to make it look like it’s artificially lit up like a game…

The Mets also got their starting catcher in that deal.

I’m with you. Apparently this IKEA ad has been mispronouncing IKEA too (you can hear it at the very end).

More like a no pretty ethnicity-that-isn’t-Caucasian hair.

as Gen X I am telling you, I am still using 14.4 speed dial up modem.

I really have to say I think the ‘beggin’ strips’ joke and accompanying picture for this article are crass. These are terrible things that have happened to real people. I can’t imagine if a man had killed his wife in this manner that anyone on this site would be wise cracking.

Luckily the kid has a pretty healthy ego (on top of consistently being the shortest kid in the class), but it’s made him more careful about showing how smart he is, which is a shame. And budget cuts pretty much scuttled the Gifted and Talented program, so it’s been a struggle to keep him “positively engaged.”

My kindergarten teacher tried to hold me back for the same reason, citing me as “disruptive”. My mother told her to give me more/challenging work and to see how much less I wandered around and disrupted things.

Yeah, because slamming a 12-year-old on her face on a hard surface *MIGHT* be appropriate? Fuck off.

Dealing with school shit is definitely one of the downsides. Many of the teachers I’ve dealt with have been perfectly fine, but some are such complete jerks or dolts (like the one who scolded me because my son always finished his work and answered questions before anyone else) that it's all I can do to avoid them…

Yes.

Translated: We’re desperately calling law firms, hoping we can find one that can cut our monetary damages as low as possible, and is scummy enough to destroy the integrity of a 12-year old girl without a second thought.

Absolutely. She looked like she was unconscious for that moment and barely coming to when he yanked her to her feet.

She had to have been. And I’m sure they didn’t get her any medical attention.

That’s... not really how those numbers pan out. Your odds of encountering a trans person in a sample of 333 people is not 100%, nor is it zero in a sample of 50.

There’s a difference between creating new experiences with the diversity that we see today and shoehorning them into a 17 year old game.

Yet because Internet arguments are arguments of extremes, there can’t be any compromise or middle ground. It’s assimilate or die.

If, in the real world, you encounter a trans person in a building with fewer than 333 people in it, this is not necessarily “tokenism”. More likely, you just happened to be in a place where a trans person happened to be. Similarly, I strongly suspect that, if you added up all the characters from all computer games and…

Anyone who seriously uses the term “SJW” as a pejorative is not worth any more effort than a top-level comeback.

Game Maker: “We have listened to fan complaints and have changes some aspects of our game accordingly.”