I think they’re trying to establish a hybrid model of studios who bring a well-oiled, tested team who know how to operate well in a shared mindspace and can deliver an actual product on time and within expectations, while still being a unique experience. Where Microsoft can help is they can provide art asset support,…

I appreciate your candor. I guess people you disagree with vehemently are automatically trolls who need burying? Fair enough. Everyone needs their safe space where they can exchange in discourse without having to fend off people who irritate the crap out of them, maybe the comment section of theroot.com is yours. 

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People are complicated. Cops are people. Cops are complicated. He was in his jurisdiction to neutralize her as a threat, especially if she started acting extremely erratic and biting the people around her, potentially deeply, given no knowledge of who she was and if she was carrying any potentially harmful disease.…

I didn’t know this before this resurfaced recently, but his junk was actually not outside of his pants. Should he be held up as the textbook example of a rapist? He was obviously wrong, and I definitely see the value in lowering the threshold of actions qualifying as rape given how many casesgo unreported/unprosecuted.…

Come on, you have to allow for some nuance no matter how enlightened you believe your stance to be. Sporting associations regularly establish divisions to create competitive pools near each other in talent, ability, fairness. Varsity/Jr Varsity, Division I/II, Men’s and women’s... the idea being that any unit in that…

Is it better than how the cops handled it in Baltimore, where they backed off and ceded territory back to the residents, after which... the situation disintegrated rather quickly? It’s not an easy equilibrium to find, and calling cops jackbooted fascist thugs and eroding faith in their competence is just adding…

This is not getting mentioned at all in any of the articles as if it’s completely irrelevant. People should do a bit more contextual research before crying foul. The story is based on real life people and events, it’s free for anyone to adapt and dramatize and depict as they see fit. Rupert and Johanna provided the…

It’s not a useful equivalence. Transgenderism is an intrinsic belief that a person is not occupying the body that reflects the persona they are inside, which can cause mild to extreme emotional duress and can be helped therapeutically with hormonal infusions, body modifications, and adapting common social signifiers…

Why not? You’re assuming he’s racially motivated to denigrate Whitney because of some kind of superiority complex? Her former agent approached him to do it, her estate provided material and connections to people to interview to assemble it. It’s likely they got some kind of final cut approval as they likely helped…

I was just fine with your so called ‘Republican-lite’. I thought Obama-esque politics threaded some pretty damn tough needles, the likes of which far more left-leaning politicians melt in front of because they can’t bridge their ideals with the facts of the situation. You don’t speak for the Democratic party. If you…

They were offered a really generous buyout, if what another commenter said about 4.5 months worth of pay, which may be the nudge some of these writers/editors needed to pursue or try something new. There’s a good chance it might make Jezebel healthier in the long term, going by that long list of remaining Jez staff…

I think rather than pointing to a HuffPo article, Hazel could do a bit more work to surface some of the literature that contributed to this new consensus? The attributed ‘authority’ lines picked make it seem like it’s a move done primarily to destigmatize transgenderism, which while an important goal, would come off…

Did Hellblade get passed over in the ongoing press frenzy around Horizon Zero Dawn? It seemed to get swallowed into some kind of deadzone around it’s launch window. It seems dangerous for a game’s survival and early market momentum when even game critics/bloggers are like hold on, I’ll get to your game, but I’m really…

She was invited to speak, and then she was asked a question, which was pointing out the exact same attitude that you’re projecting, how does it feel to constantly be told you’re time is over, sit down and shut up. It’s gotta hurt, and she gave a poised answer, but no doubt it cut. She gave her life to the Democratic…

What a fascinatingly condescendingly constructed question. “Since you’re a fan of hers (I am definitely not)“ — you have to overtly declare your distaste for her work, and in the process gently piss on the original poster for his/her preferences. “What do you see in her?” What? Who tf asks that? Kristen Wiig is just…

That’s a nice snippet, but in vivo feedback is powerful and can be transformative, a common motivator amongst survivors who do find the courage to come out about their trauma is that they don’t want the perpetrator to victimize anyone else in a similar way, and and if more women can hopefully not go home crying and…