Good.

This surprised me. From a general union pro/con aspect, California is pro union and Florida is con.  So I just assumed that the CA Disney performers already were union.

The homophobia is absolutely brutal, and its a genre that still hews slavishly to the male gaze.

So like, as I have grown in the years since first playing Persona 5, not only is the absence and hostility towards queerness, but the idea that as a male protagonist I just have this buffet of women at my beck and call and…

The casual brutal homophobia on JRPGs that is never, ever, covered by even this media, and I am looking at some writers here who were supposed to be very concerned about representation...

But the average you’ll get from the factories is what the Film Industry has been pulling forever...Token black...token gay...token trans...check, check, check down the list.

If you’ve ever played games with romance options, features characters in relationships, or presents characters in a sexualized way, congrats, you’ve played a game that addresses gender and sexuality.

In addition to representation in major plot points and arcs, I think it is equally important to have plenty of characters that are incidentally LGBT+. The fact of diversity in gender and sexuality should be normalized in games, both as a main plot thrust, but also just people inhabiting the world. Just NPCs holding…

What version of real life are you playing where peoples sexuality and gender identity have no bearing on the ‘point’ of their existence?

Especially seeing as it is something under constant legal and political scrutiny.

To be fair, gay tetris sounds pretty fun. 

So what you’re saying is that context is key, and absent context, you’re just spitting numbers out that have no meaning?

Heck, with the Persona games there’s a huge uproar over ‘censorship’ when we are removed as a cultural punching bag.

Like, if I had a nickel for how many times Atlus inserted queer people into a comic relief scene just to make them seem predatory and then removed it later I would have 2 nickels but its still…

“there’s a percentage of the gaming population–like queer and trans players–which is already playing despite being essentially uninvited, and the industry sees us as “gravy”—a nice extra but not a group worth catering to directly.”

Twister was really, really dumb the same year that Independence Day was somehow dumber. They are a perfect time capsule of dopey 90s filmmaking, and this cannot be recreated now, without devolving into a nostalgia mess where the “sequel” is just remixed moments from the original (looking at you Coming to America: The R…

I want a character who is Jonas Miller (Cary Elwes)’s son, who has inherited his father’s profession. He points at every tornado he encounters, saying, “I am Jonas Miller’s son. You killed my father- prepare to die!”

I’m... gonna be that girl and point out that I *really* hope this movie isn’t suggesting that taking cover under an overpass is a good idea in a tornado. That myth has legit caused people to die (OG Twister did that too, but that was before the 1999 Bridge Creek EF5 where multiple people died under overpasses. We know…

Should we get off your lawn?

I believe that Kotaku can and should write about “nerd” culture, and that includes really cool movies. 

People are noticing that they are upset about noticing that the method of making things noticeable is working, they don’t notice how upset they’d be if they couldn’t notice something because it wasn’t noticeable.

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I hope that Twisters will spawn a slough of sequels of random disaster movies from the 90s. Can’t wait for Armageddons, Back Drafts and of course the long needed Dantes’s Peaks