I think this would be an awesome way to spark an exploration of race and racism in a classroom setting. Last night I was thinking about a slightly altered version of this dilemma, putting the students in the role of the decision making body.

I think you are undervaluing the way that something like this raises hackles enough to make discussion almost inevitable. I would say that for a serious discussion to happen defenses have to be raised. I mean to say that in the exposing of defensive/offensive posturing, we are able to expose more about the subject…

First of all, whatever reason the blacks are being taken for in the story, they are being sold in trade. You don't sell human beings, so any agreement with this plan is a case of blacks being made subhuman. Second, how is it any less openly racist? The Germans who followed the Nazi party, from one direction or…

Yeah, nothing like getting knifed while changing settings. Not only is some undeserving shit getting your dog-tags, but you get booted out of the menu and have to do it all over again. At least let us change settings while we are dead.

I slogged through the lag long enough to put a tank shell up an enemy driver's bum (his machine gunner's bum too). I'll be back when they optimize.

Those are all good things - titles which share words without the devs throwing a shit-fit about it. That should keep going. It's this one word = copyright infringement thing that really ought to go.

I agree with you. I was taking issue with Michael_GR's characterization of the rise of the Nazi party.

What!? The rise of the Nazi party was due to a masterfully employed political campaign by Hitler and his supporters. It was totally a function of how people can be convinced into supporting something horrible if they believe it is in their best interest. You might do well to go and check your history books.

Sounds like Spock needs to get down with some literary theory. Can we get some contextualization in that logic Mr. Vulcan?

I just watched the TV show on Youtube and it certainly seems to be stronger than what I've read of the story (it's 90's melodrama, but it still manages to be haunting and poignant enough). I also dig the ambiguity of the TV movie more. I like the interplay between not knowing (with only vague hints of the reason)…

I think that the quality of the writing/conceptualizing undercuts the larger question: will a human being sell out a group of othered/outsider human beings for personal benefit. No doubt it is a more complex question than it is presented in the story or the TV movie, but to call it purely "inflammatory" and "stupid"…

As 90's terrible as that was, I really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Ok, cyborg - got it; vampire - got it. Why are there two fleshlights for fucking corpses? As if a fucking disembodied vagina weren't frightening enough.

I think it would be hilarious if they said yes because, how the fuck would you even begin to scientifically determine who is what race? You can't do it. It's not possible because race is utterly unscientific. Mostly everyone you will ever meet is racially mixed and that is true even if you are going by some…

I actually agree with Zenimax on this one EXCEPT I don't like the idea of companies getting a hold of the use of a single word. It's just ridiculous and eventually destructive to think that you should have dominion over how a single word is used by other entities.

I'm somewhere in the realm of lit theory and culture crit (if I am being generous with myself), but where we are differing comes from my stance on what you are suggesting as responsibility and the differing level of separations we are employing when discussing artists and viewers.

Okay, that's fair, but those are McQueen shoes (or more likely McQueen inspired shoes)..

I certainly agree that the author/creative team are the conduits for what goes into the story, I just disagree with the level of control you are suggesting (even in your second post). Of course, the whole "boy's club" stance of the book seems pretty surface level so I would be surprised if it weren't a conscious…

Direct manifestation of the creator's will? Nah, only in an artist's utopia (or maybe an artist's nightmare; depends on how honestly you approach your role in your art). That said, yeah I hated the ridiculous obsession with masculinity in the book and its awkward attempts at excusing its own misogyny.

That style of heel is actually a creation of the late fashion designer, Alexander McQueen. Though, if you see his work, B&D doesn't seem too far off.