Kinda fell for this at a mall a few months ago. A kiosk worker saw me searching the mall directory for a certain store. She calls over and asks what store I’m looking for. As soon as I tell her the store name she says “I don’t know where that is, but let me tell you about our products...”

I’m sure it’s happened to me, too. I know it has, though I don’t recall exactly when. But I just meant that Netflix using it as the reason their earnings are off sounds like a cop-out. I’m not buying it.

It doesn’t really prevent online fraud. I personally like that my credit card lets me generate “shop safe numbers” to use online. Once it is charged by a vendor, no other vendor can charge to that number.

You don’t have to be traveling to Morocco to run into this - they do this stuff at kiosks at the malls in the U.S. all.the.time. There of course it (is/should be) obvious that they’re trying to sell something, but I cringe when I walk by and see it in action.

Right? I mean, that’s pretty much how it’s always been. You get a new card, you look for changes. To me, sounds like Netflix is looking for a scapegoat. Their entire third quarter earnings took a dive because 30 million people didn’t update their credit cards on file?

This is pretty standard procedure for any new card sent to you.

Why is this always the knee-jerk response when somebody points out issues of race, gender, or culture in video games, but when a complaint is made about a specific game’s mechanics being faulty or a theme being overused as a whole (re: the “realistic military shooter”), nobody really responds with the “don’t like it,…

This was a call-out, not a white paper. Are you intimating that there’s not actually the technology to do a realistic fade, natural, or line-up? Game designers manage to get mohawks and punk spikes down pretty well. Even afros. Come on with your “next step.”

Telling black people “just make a fucking game” also ignores the institutional/economical/social barriers black people face when trying to make one. More often than not, when black people present their ideas to the ones conteolling the purse strings, they’re told no. Meanwhile, every white millenial who pitches the…

Do you know what producing video games is? Quite often, business. Do you know what the goal of a business is? To make money. Do you know how businesses make money? By offering a product people enjoy. Do you know how businesses learn what people like? People say what they’d like to see.

Having a consumer suggest what…

Did you also write to Roger Ebert while he was alive and writing scathing reviews, asking him to make his own Good Movies if he wanted there to be more of them?

The author states the exact point:

funny thing is you’d think black hair would be much easier to create in the digital world than other hair because it doesn’t move. hence you don’t have to program individual strands to bounce or blow in the simulated wind or respond to gravity in relation to the character’s movements.

You’re exhibiting the exact kinds of prejudices this article was written to address. AS a person who knows how modeling works, I would think that black hair would be EASIER than white hair, because it doesn’t move, really.

GTA V is the perfect example of this. Franklin’s choices are bald, full-on afro, or weirdly specific designs like stars or zigzags if you want a medium-low cut. Just give me the option of a haircut that an average dude who doesn’t care about his hair might have!

But Evan’s literal job is writing. Sure, everyone can make games, but that doesn’t mean that everyone HAS to. Does every film critic have to write and direct their own movies before they’re taken seriously? Does every music critic? No, because it’s understood that critique is in itself a different facet of those…

You understand that Evan is a writer, right? Meaning that he writes things? Why does HE have to develop a game to point out industry-wide flaws in how games handle black people?

I really like the portrayal of black characters in Mass Effect. to me Bioware got the features down really well

To be fair, there isn’t a lot NBA2K has gotten right the last few years...

Still haven't found a video game with the proper hair style for being black. Hell even NBA 2k doesn't offer proper fades