The issue is the combination of perceived blackface while being dressed like an ape-like creature. Both of those things are often used to ridicule african-americans in the states, so the producers decided to avoid the drama all together and just not air the episode rather than gut it significantly.

Considering the amount of times people have equated african-americans to animals, especially primates -in recent history, even-, when you combine it with a white person dressing up as a primate and wearing brown facepaint.....yeah it is better to just avoid the controversy completely.

Yes it does as an optional control scheme. I have used it a couple times, and it works very well, but I prefer my pro controller. 

Any chance this could work in the states? I would love to figure out a way to get this working on my phone here. 

Plenty of people who may not have other systems play them online, or they may not have a computer that can run games like fortnite at a reasonable pace, so the switch is a great option for them. I prefer the portability of the switch rather than playing on my PC for most games available. Just sitting back and playing…

This is true, mainly because it isn’t out yet.

If we are including upcoming games: Smash, Monster Hunter: Generations (I think it will have online play), Fifa, Sonic Racing, Dragonball FighterZ, and probably others I am forgetting. 

Is this sarcasm?

Fortnite, Splatoon, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, NBA, Doom, Minecraft, Rocket League are all frequently played online. 

First I love the screen name. Darmok references make me happy.
Second I think this just applies to digital games, as it says in the article. 

She rolls her eyes because you stated a fact as an opinion.

Bob Barker wasn’t “good” at it, he was incredible, sir.

This is what I need to know.

This is already an issue with Steam, and it goes farther back than this policy announcement. When you search for literally any kind of Simulator game you get dozens of results that all seem legit but most are absolute cash-in garbage. Trying to wade through the trash has gotten bad these days and a policy like this…

That is exactly what will happen, without a doubt. This kind of decision will result in people paying more attention to the controversial and extreme titles on the service, and as sites like this and others bring them up, publishers will not want to be associated with a company that is allowing extreme controversial…

Which has become a major issue that Amazon is cracking down significantly on. See all the books that are being sold as “200 pages” but in reality is a short story that barely would qualify as a Tumblr post followed by stolen or filler text for the following 199 pages. This is increasingly common. The same goes for…

The dog argument is not really the best comparison. Games are reasonably harmless, though they can be offensive. Dogs like Pugs and other similar breeds often have horribly short or unhealthy lives. Obviously you know this, as you brought it up.

No one is saying anyone can’t make a an edgy or racist game.
People are…

No one is saying that people can’t make those games. Rock on, do your thing.
Steam does not need to give those games a platform if it so chooses. The view is that with a hands-off approach they are encouraging games that would not be accepted on other platforms to be on Steam. Is that what Steam really wants to be, or…

Am I the only person who is surprised that in the last 20+ years of Pokemon that this is the first we are hearing of a Pokemon vending machine? I just assumed it was a thing well before this.

Has that ever been tested in the entertainment realm? I am asking out of curiosity, not being antagonistic.

Considering NWA’s Albums (as much as I enjoy them), Mein Kampf and other media that can be argued encourage violence against specific groups are not illegal, I don’t know why video games would be illegal.

I don’t…

Since when is hate speech (in general, not targeted at specific persons) illegal in the states? The surpreme court has unanimously agreed that there is no exception for hate speech in the 1st amendment.

Nope. They would fall under free speech protection. As they should be.

You are free to say you hate (insert whatever here), but not make direct threats upon said thing.

Hate speech is absolutely protected by the first amendment, and that is a good thing. How we react to it is what matters, we don’t want the government…