I swear most of the complaints about TLJ are at best nitpicking (i.e. how the bombs worked) or, at worst, was explained in the movie, required basic critical thinking skills (i.e. Leia’s spacewalk and Luke’s Force Projection), or was never that important to begin with and were hyped by Abrams and his mystery boxes…

“1.) It may well not be her cleavage that makes her successful.”

While I certainly understand that the way videogames “glorify” violence can make people uncomfortable, and there is absolutely some stuff worth unpacking there, this strikes me as completely ass-backwards.

Yes, it counts. People who play nothing but mobile games are also “avid gamers.” Just because he’s not posting videos of himself playing the Witcher 3 and horizon doesn’t make him any less of a gamer.

No grown adult should care about “gamer cred.”

“Pretending to be dominant over another race” is not the definition of racism.

Jesus, some of these “problems” D2 players are whining about are pathetic. I’m not happy with the state of the game but the community itself is half of the reason I stopped playing.

Sustained harassment and hate propaganda are both offenses that can be tried in a criminal court.

Canada does have freedom of speech, not sure where you got the idea that we don’t.

If only people that can play your game for 20+ hours a week can get ‘good’ gear, you’re doing something wrong. A lot of us gamers are growing up, and with that come jobs, children, responsibilities, etc. that keep you away from the game. They shouldn’t listen to the 16-24 year-old High School and College student that…

From a friend who is far more eloquent than I:

Warning shots have been around for centuries, long before movies or television existed, and are firmly established in the historical record.

I’m so sick of hearing about the police murdering compliant people in total absence of wrongdoing. I’m even sicker of the fact that they get away with it.

Viewers are advised that what they are viewing is a spectacle and is not real and that the train will not, in fact, come out of the movie screen and run over them.

It’s a... callback?

“It was a relief then that Rian Johnson did what needed to be done... I hear those criticisms, but find them easy to forgive in the face of how brave some of Rian Johnson’s choices were.”

Organized sports has decided (or at least pretended to), that being a bad sport will get you punished, no matter how skilled you are.

I stopped reading here:

The plotting itself in Act 2 was pointless. What Rian Johnson was trying to do (I’m not sure I totally agree with his decisions) was take the usual harebrained Star Wars convoluted Hail Mary hero plan and make it fail. And fail spectacularly.

My wife and I saw it together (her first, my fourth) and I complained about the Casino and Finn/Rose mission, and the bad decisions Poe made, the bad decisions Luke made. And she turned to me and said its about “failure” and learning from that “failure”. Failure clearly was a main theme in the film and all of them…

My original point is that these individuals aren’t athletes. And this article exemplifies that in spades.