If someone gets drunk and robs a liquor store but “didn’t mean it” when they sober up, they still robbed a liquor store. They still get arrested. They still go to jail.

I turn off motion blur, v-sync and I usually turn down the music.

I think the concern, both from Amirah and the black community, is regarding the cumulative effects of these seemingly (relatively) innocuous situations. As you say... in this specific case there isn’t a dramatic skin tone difference and the way Amirah describes the situation the make-up artists weren’t even sure they n…

People get confused a bit when it comes to actors because... well.. the whole job is to be something you aren’t... but it’s also just a job.. that we should all have equal opportunity to access. If people are being excluded then we owe it to ourselves to understand why, and if possible, to correct that inequality.

I think it’s that they darkened her skin rather than hiring a darker skinned actor. Ostensibly... this happens more often than many realize (systemically) and she is uncomfortable being implicated in it. Given how fickle the whole business is it’s hard to blame her about not saying something in the moment (spheres of…

Isn’t blackface characterized by caucasian performers, wearing black (or very very dark) paint on their faces, engage in a physical pantomime of black stereotypes?

Was Biden unaware of the state of congress when he promised $2,000 checks to Americans (explicitly to Georgians during the Georgia runoff)?

I was with you... then I considered that there are probably a lot of people that bought it due to all of the explicit comments from the studio that it was about to be rebooted (better than ever!!).

I think these folks have a right to be upset. Sure... they *might* get their money’s worth out of the game (as-is) but I…

The ES and Fallout games are always pretty terrible at launch (atrociously optimized, countless game-breaking bugs, etc) but people seem to extend them a lot of slack because of how easily m̶o̶d̶d̶e̶d̶ fixed they are by the community. I wait months after launch before I even attempt a sincere playthrough with these…

Somewhat unrelated...

I get why we’ve essentially lost the svastika to the Nazis, a symbol that predates Hitler by about 5,000 years (sanskrit for “good fortune” or “well being”), but do we really need to lose every fragment of language (slang/slogan) used by them at every level? Isn’t that them winning on some level.

I’m pretty much in the same boat.

It’s akin to the intuition that violence in video games must lead to some increased violence in reality... which... it doesn’t actually appear to.

What percentage of the new sales were the result of racists... and how many are the result of algorithms jumping him up in charts as a result of a miniscule number of racists buying his shit all at once?

I think that may actually complicate the situation more than clarify it... because the models likeness belongs to the model (not to the either party in the suit). Anything she shows up in is somewhat likely to be similar to her other work.

This is... totally normal. Batteries degrade over time and need to be replaced eventually (usually in 3-4 years, or even sooner if you use the device heavily).

Like Terrorist, In the USA the domestic supremacist have way higher kill count than the al-Qaeda related kill but resources usage still improperly aimed due to personal bias or party related propaganda which causes many unnecessary death.

Sure... all those black and latino votes he gained between 2016 and 2020 were just racist assholes looking forward to being racist assholes in public.

The truth isn’t particularly relevant to the strategy. It was a move made to leverage populism and nihilism and it helped in 2016 and nearly did the job again in 2020.

It isn’t actually relevant (to this discussion) if it was true... it was a story told to leverage populism and nihilism.