Yeah, whenever I get to customize my character, they’re usually non-white and/or female. Often both. And, for some reason, always gay whenever possible.
But from my Central European perspective, I never saw Geralt as “white”, but rather “Slavic” - I guess the closest equivalent to American eyes would be a Hispanic…

Awww c’mon, how was I supposed to know she was only 8? She told me she was 21 and just had a mutation that made her look a bit on the youngish side, I swear!

Nathalie Emmanuel (Daenerys’ handmaiden/translator Missandei) was a regular on a British soap opera named Hollyoaks, although I’ll always remember her from her guest appearance on Misfits, where her obituary included the words:

Indira Varma who plays Ellaria Sand (Oberyn Martell’s fuckbuddy) was the main character’s wife in HBO’s Rome

I remember my reaction when he showed up in The Raid 2: Berandal (note: I still have no idea what the fuck a “Berandal” actually is):
“Wait, I know that hobo! Is that Mad Dog? But didn’t he...? Prakoso? No, fuck you, that’s Mad Dog, I mean, he didn’t even change his hairstyle, are you freaking kidd-

I’m pretty sure the people calling Kiko Mizuhara (Mikasa) a “foreigner” are referring to the fact that she’s 50% Caucasian, not her being 50% Korean (I’m also guessing that a biracial Asian/White person still looks mostly white to them, in the same sense that Barack Obama and Halle Berry look “mostly black” to a white…

Maybe because this Kotaku, which is, you know, a gaming site?

As a Food Scientist, I sincerely thank you for mentioning Aspartame. It is truly baffling that people are avoiding it over some flimsy evidence that ingesting *extremely* high doses (way more than anyone would conceivably ingest, since 5 grams of Aspartame are as sweet as a kilogram of sugar) might be harmful for you,…

You can't get high on Prozac. Unless your defnition of "high" includes serotonin poisoning, which involves sweating, shaking, headaches, dangerous hyperthermia, extreme agitation and vomiting/shitting all over yourself.

Wait, what? You do know that the announcer has always been saying “Finish Her!” when you fought a female enemy?

If I remember correctly, Deus Ex: Invisible War actually used a hybrid of all 3 endings of the first Deus Ex, where you had the choice of either a) shutting off the Internet, plunging the world into a new Dark Age but also preventing anybody from achieving World Domination b) turn over control over the net to the…

I don’t know why everyone’s hating on the boss battles so much. I mean, sure, they weren’t exactly the high point of the game, but it’s not like the MGS series didn’t have it’s fair share of shitty boss fights.

“Mystification” seems like a pretty odd choice... although if I’m not mistaken, the anime “Silent Möbius” was pretty big in France, so they might have gotten the idea from the “Attacked Mystification Police” organization that the main characters worked for.

Tim Schafer’s “Full Throttle” was sold as “Vollgas” in Germany, allegedly because the original English title sounded too much like the German “Volltrottel” (“complete idiot”). Now this might just be an amusing anecdote made up by the German gaming press, but it is a fact that other Lucasarts adventure games (like…

Personally, I thought the butt of the joke was the Firedorn guy, who was so insecure and queerphobic that the thought of being regarded as anything “less” than a 100% straight drove him to suicide.

For the record, this is what Namco thinks a 16th century German swordsman looks like (from Soul Calibur 4)

What, no love for Gundam 0083?

Actually, you never adressed it in any way beyond "You obviously don't understand White Privilege".

Out of curiosity, you don't think enjoying all those other BF games where you play a guy from a rich first-world country who goes to the Middle East and guns down hundreds of brown people isn't an even more egregious example of how ridiculously privileged YOU are just by being an American?