Cool. I’ll buy it.

Dembele is black.

I mean... athletes, at least football and basketball players? Stunted personality development (to put it nicely) is literally the stereotype (and sometimes the truth). Very few literary giants in their midst. Reminds me of a great scene in.. is it The Natural? "I just try to do the best for my club...". That's…

Oh sorry. You’re that fabled guy who’s personally engaged with every single cop on the planet. I stand corrected.

Listen, there is absolutely no doubt there is a pervasive issue in this country with racism, and it absolutely extends to the police and how they interact with any person of color, and it absolutely needs to be addressed and changed. Police brutality is a big deal, and a real and widespread problem, and it needs to…

Good Lord this site can be so sanctimonious. Some of the headlines here are so reductive and judgemental. ‘Cops are bastards’. What, all of them?

I’m a heavy magic the gathering player and yeah signatures tend to LOWER the value of cards rather than raise them. this is because there are only a certain number of pristine examples printed and every time you get a card signed or the card gets damaged that number of pristine cards goes down. If you buy and sell tcg…

I mean... it does look like some neighborhoods in Tokyo though? Akihabara, the arcades, the gatcha machines...?  I thought that fighting game part was actually really cool.

I think this is why Tencent is going around buying little bits of every gaming company. To quietly force small changes like this across all games.

(And before anyone claims that tencent and the CCP aren’t affiliated, pretty much every corporation in china is beholden to the government in order to continue existing.)

Off-topic, somewhat, but are we seeing any progress in the repair of Kinja? This article is going to generate a decent number of Kinja responses.

People from the entertainment industry shouldn’t be allowed to preach about politics and human rights (even if I think they’re right!) if they’re going to be such shameless cowards on human rights abusers who inconveniently have economic influence.

It is definitely also a problem with the CCP. The CCP is practicing state capitalism already, they’ve just painted it red and continually fearmonger about the West so that people within AND outside of China will keep seeing issues of corruption and onerous censorship - and no doubt someday, the concentration camps and…

Much as there is on my mind whenever a game patches itself to be China approved, everything always  falls into these comments:

Korea and Singapore are just collateral damage from removing Taiwan.

It’s bullshit to criticize a political construct that has killed hundreds of millions of people?

Waiting for a dev to do this with region selection in a game just to see what China says.

Honestly, those nations are only ‘controversial’ because of the Chinese government going after anyone who acknowledges them. Nonetheless, not going to pretend surprise, the CCP’s ability to co-opt even small companies is horrific but well known at this point. I am however frustrated by how little counter there is to…

Anyone can afford $50/month. That was an extremely lenient payment, and if it was my balls to the fire you better believe I'm making that payment early every month 

I disagree! Seeing so many games meet the qualifications, despite how strict they are, is genuinely interesting and seems like a good trend for more diversity in game types.

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