Imagine if you could win an online match by shooting a human avatar in the head with a gun. That’s pretty bad stuff. Should we really be condoning that? I mean, obviously there are people out there who aren’t capable of separating out the abstract competitive act from the murderous implications; indeed, some players…

Capitalism cannot possibly be the problem!

World firsts for raid and raid-ish content should be a joke by now, and it’s rather a shame they aren’t. From the leaks, to the sneak peeks, to the bugs that go live, to the mountain of grindy fucking bullshit and RNG that can tilt the balance, to the occasional (and seemingly arbitrary) banning of people who either…

>Honestly, I think we’re going to get through this troubled period just fine without having to go back and erase all the non cishet white male characters from Hemingway’s entire oeuvre. It’s going to be ok, buddy.

The vastly superior alternative on all fronts is simple and obvious: hire more actors from marginalized groups and take a stand for the ability of a professional actor to pretend to be somebody (s)he’s not, because that’s the entire goddamn job description.

>Then the problem is that you lack a basic understanding of the issue. The issue is that Black and minority actors are routinely passed over for white actors for playing minority roles. They are routinely passed over for white actors for playing roles that aren’t identified as being either minority or white. They…

“Force Kristen Bell to continue voicing this character?”

Maybe we can split the baby here and have Trey/Matt apologize for their “privilege” in creating a fictitious version of the Prophet, and then, on top of that, failing to cast a Prophet to voice him. Clearly their character was inauthentic as a result, to the point where it was actively shutting down the voices of…

Mark Twain had some wise words about banning steak because babies can’t chew it.

A genuine, bona fide piece of shit that spent five years doing what you just called right and empathetic, and, to boot, for poor people who couldn’t afford to hire their own lawyers. You honestly have no frame of reference for a person who’s willing to defend artistic license/vision and constitutional rights with the…

Implicit riders don’t really carry much weight when the person talking explicitly makes a different argument.

It seems to me, however, that the point you think I got to is most decidedly *not* the point that is being forwarded by all of these announcements. If I had a problem with Bill Burr’s response to this kind of thing - “of course other kinds of people can be funny, so go make your own funny shit” - I would’ve said so. I…

That’s odd, because that’s practically the definition and purpose of literal salad.

Isn’t the natural and logical extension of this argument that if this biracial female child character was not created and written exclusively by people who either are, or at least were at some point in the past, biracial female children, then it should be scrubbed, and replaced with a biracial female child character…

Your articulation of the issue is inherently question-begging.

If it’s a joke, it’s one that the actors, writers, and producers of this show unintentionally wrote for themselves and then stepped in.

The literal headline of this article is a quote from Jenny Slate saying “Black characters should be played by Black people.”

On the other hand, if deception were fairly and equally punished in the realm of sexual relations, women would be yelling just as loudly as men for the government to butt out entirely.

That’s a pretty dark comment, considering how easy it is in the AC series to abandon stealth in favor of just brutally murdering dozens of people.

I think if you’re at the point where you’re willing to make a distinction between the platitude “working together” and the reality of working with a 40%-ish bulwark of horrible people in the country, then you’ve kind of already admitted that shit’s completely fucked, and this infighting at the margins of the 60% isn’t…