defining is not gatekeeping. it’s time to stop conflating the two concepts. gatekeeping is not allowing someone into the club because they haven’t met some dumb, imaginary bar of credibility. it’s a superiority complex. genre definition is defining the actual bounds we use to categorize things.

Next you’re going to tell me Tig Notaro never met the cast of Army of the Dead.

I hope this is a huge hit and they propose a sequel and they call it Mens

Partially because Amber Heard isn’t a writer so she probably needed help, not everyone is articulate enough to express themselves without help. And to have a lawyer review her statements and offer her some level of legal protection through vagueness. And it seems gross but the I believe the ACLU is run mostly on…

The ghost-writing is actually fairly normal for these types of organizations. I imagine what wasn’t detailed here was some conversation between Heard and the writers discussing the substance of the OpEd. Any organization doing the work of publicizing serious issues will have internal communications on delicate topics t…

It’s the children who are wrong?

From the wiki for Shabiris Woe: “Only works in co-op: Cannot be used to attract aggro from enemies to not target your spirit ashes.”

toying with the idea of turning DC into its own solidified content vertical.

“And for everyone saying “the Umbrella Academy is just zany enough to make this work,” gender transitions happen in plain old real-ass life.”

Very true, but it’s still also true that the plot of the show in question will make the inevitable complaints about the transition even more ridiculous than they otherwise would…

I don’t like the way From does things, because the explanation is always things like “They want players to figure it out” or whatever, but that isn’t what happens.

This game is currently spammed with stale lame ass “but hole” jokes. One of the writers here still thinks they're funny enough to devote and entire clipshow to them, encouraging more. 🙄 

God, it’s so irritating that 9/10 messages are the same three jokes. The last time I played a souls game at launch was the original NA launch of demons souls. I do not remember my world being covered in worthless messages back then

The problem is people try to treat them as prescriptive categories rather than additive descriptors, leading to ridiculous comments like "is it an RPG or does it have RPG elements?"

Well if we’re speaking of POC speculative fiction authors, check out Esi Edugyan, Marlon James, Nnedi Okorafor, Omar el Akkad; there are many others of course. In RPGs there have been a few big Afrofuturistic and Afrofantasy projects lately, including Mother Lands (POC RPG authors and artists predominantly as I…

So the only way that the show can be truly inclusive is by replacing Matt and/or other cast members with POC?

I imagine Microsoft has been waiting to buy either ea or activision for a while just looking for the opportune moment and the bludgeoning their stock price took motivated both sides to come to a deal quickly.

This is the most intelligent comment on the thread 

I bet all those dozens of people he fucked over out of their jobs by closing an entire studio are at least glad he’s succeeded to become one of the top blue tick crypto pushers on Twitter.

As someone who grew up with the books, grew up with the films there’s nothing I find less appealing than my generation’s still absurd attachment to this stuff.