Because nothing celebrates the unimportance of race like whitewashing to conform to marketing figures.

Ghost in the Shell only takes place like 15-30 years in the future. To put that in perspective. People who were alive when Apartheid was still a thing will still be alive. In fact, people who were alive during Segregation in the US would probably still be around.

But don’t you get it? Everyone knows white is the default ethnicity. /s

You don’t watch much anime, do you? That picture you posted looks VERY Japanese to me. That is, in fact, one of the more Asian looking depictions of a character I’ve seen in anime... apart from the racist stereotypes of Chinese characters.

“And there are Japanese men named John Smith.”

Let me put it this way. If someone made a movie about Shaft and cast Vin Diesel as the main character, people would be upset.

Uhhhhhh... no? I’ve seen the original movie, Innocence, SAC and Second Gig, and her name is MOTOKO. KUSANAGI. She’s a cyborg, yes. She’s a JAPANESE cyborg.

Honestly, even the “Goku is an alien” excuse doesn’t really hold up when Superman just happens to land in a country that total favors people of his particular skin pigmentation.

I’m not saying that boobs = dicks.

Its also worth remembering that all fictional characters are designed by their creators. In other words, even if the sexualization is appropriate to the character, if it keeps happening, you kind of have to have a point where you go, “Okay, like, how about making a different kind of female character for a switch?”

Do you honestly not understand how the male chest and female breasts are viewed differently in our culture?

As a feminist... I love Emma Frost. That said, her costumes have varied heavily between ‘appropriately confident and sexy for the character’ and ‘is she wearing lingerie?’

I sort of agree, but mostly disagree. They’re fully allowed to have individual comics that market to different demographics.

I’m not sure you understand how sarcasm works. There kind of has to be a point to it. Its like “It’s satire!” defense. If the subject doesn’t appear to be making any point beyond the literal, it comes off as a pretty flimsy argument.

I think its because the pirates will inevitably make a work-around. This way, they can at least waste peoples’ time and have a laugh before the pirates realize there’s anything wrong.

This is supposed to dissuade piracy? This just makes me WANT to pirate it.

Capitulation does not necessarily equate agreement.

The problem is that, as this article points out, the original game definitely did not shy away from pop culture references.

Uhhh, they didn’t shoehorn anything into a 17 year old game. This is new content. Their end goal has ALWAYS been to make a Baldur’s Gate 3. Are you honestly suggesting that they’re never allowed to try anything new?

I’m VERY sparing with soy sauce, though I confess I can get... overzealous with my wasabi...