It’s about time they get an Indian actor to play a character that has been so unfairly stereotyped as a, *checks notes* successful business owner with a PhD, Springfield’s most eligible bachelor, youth hockey coach, volunteer firefighter, member of Homer’s bowling team, barbershop quartet, and vigilante group, and a…

We all JOKED about getting another swordsman from Fire Emblem. And it happened. Are you serious, Sakurai.

Never seen fans turn on an announcement so fast.

It’s depressing how often I trot this out lately, but goddamn does it hold true.

I will always and forever appreciate Kotaku’s commitment to not mince words in their headlines.

behold the master race

lol, why do people like you get so worked up by minor jokes? Take a breath, walk away, come back in a better head space. 

Am I really petty enough to hope Joker wins an award I don’t give two shits about just to spite the condescending cool kids at the AV Club?

I think an extremely nerdy, extremely bubbly, extremely nerdish woman writer like Gita saying this makes it overwhelmingly clear that it’s very:

I can't believe people take video game cosmetics this seriously, but here we are.

That’s totally fair. If a writer wants to criticize a game for not featuring gender representation, that’s totally fine. That’s valuable journalism, and it helps you make the informed choice I discussed in my original post.

Was it?

If a game or developer does not align with your politics and you feel strongly about it, then don’t buy the game. By all means, take a stand. Sign an online petition stating that you’re not buying the game because it fails to give equal representation to women. If you want to enact real change and enough people feel…

Here’s a different angle from NY Magazine (it might be behind a paywall so here’s the whole thing):

I was more mad about the dead animals, mostly because I think you’ve got the storytelling purposes twisted.

Give me public transportation that gets me to my job from my suburban home to the suburb I work in as quickly as my car and then I’d consider the change. As of now the only option for me is multiple bus rides that take 3x as long both ways. That’s a horribly inefficient use of my time and time spent away from my…

They were, but they made no money, there was no camera and it was beside the big tree in Andy’s front yard.*

The problem with that train of thought is it leads to a sense of elitism. Please don’t take this as a dig at you, since we all have a habit of doing so. I know I definitely throw the ‘I KNOW YOU LIKE THIS SONG BUT A SCHIZOPHRENIC OUTSIDER POP ARTIST WHO WRONG SONGS ON A BROKEN CASIO IN THE 80'S DID IT BETTER!’…

You know what? I was going to come up with a smart, witty reply to your comment. But then I thought: new year, new resolution to speak openly and honestly with others.