And that is how you ignite a wildfire. This whole spectacle is about controlled censorship. But it's your blog post so have at it good sir.

I think it's important to let people speak their mind, man. Taking away people's words doesn't make anyone feel better.

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You won't approve this message, but I just have to say it for my own peace of mind.

And like that, Lady Gaga trolls Japan and Korea and shows how stupid the whole thing is.

Didn't you read the last sentence? I said, It's the pot calling the kettle black. Neither of them are right, but it's a common enough mistake that maybe you should calm your tits a smidge.

Back to the echo chamber it seems. You see the problem with this idea has always been that "greys" are often ignored, despite many having comments that are often better than the users who are approved. What ended up happening before was that you would get this little clique of people who would just discuss amongst…

You're totally right. Her clothing is by any standard (even a Japanese person) innocuous. Its likely not ill-intentioned and although I don't have proof of that, I don't see why it wouldn't be. Its just a decision thats not considering the ramifications of being misinterpreted, is all. And asians tend to be…

It would only be an issue if she also claimed something like "I love Japan, that's why I'm wearing these Japanese clothes". Without something like that the clothes are pretty much entirely unrelated to her statement. (Ironically, they could also be Japanese clothes with Hangul on them. Just sayin'.)

Asians know jack shit about western languages and alphabets. If you think that the average Asian wouldn't confuse the various Cyrillic, numerous Roman and Greek alphabets you must be hanging out with linguists or something. Screw them, if I start listing Japanese stereotypes about how racist they are towards the west…

So the people that this story is covering are crazy nationalists?

Keep in mind that Asians cannot tell the difference between Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian words - all 3 languages have common alphabets, with a few letters exclusive to each language. On top of that, all 3 languages have different ways of spelling a word out, so it is very distinguishable. Is it justifiable…

But they're not being identified as such, her clothes just happen to have Korean on them. "This Proves That From the White Person's Point of View, Japan and Korea are the Same." has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read. It literally doesn't prove anything at all, and the people overreacting in…

I think it's pretty hilarious. I'm more ashamed of my generation whom can't laugh at something that is clearly way different than the real thing, grow up. I know I'm not the only person who laughed at those videos.

What kind of person mods any game ever? Maybe it didn't start with this. Maybe it started with "How can I get infinite ammo?", then "How can I become invulnerable?", then, "how can I make people teleport around the map?" and it excalates to "what else can I do that hasn't been done?" If you do something crazy you get…

How is it shame and degrading, precisely? Because....she isn't wearing a lot while she fights monsters? You cant use the body proportions argument because no character in the game has realistic body proportions.

"Because I wouldn't want to be seen playing it in public."