Mason: “So that’s it? After 13 years, so long, good luck?”

The argument of “it’s not genocide because their population is growing” is how people talk about livestock. The poultry maintains a population of billions of chickens worldwide, more than the human population. It also slaughters them in the billions.

It’s easy to be snarky here but I agree with the larger point. Arab people are seldom treated with empathy in AAA shooters. That’s the point the interviewee was trying to get across. Indie games are taking huge strides in that direction, though, and I hope that this trend reaches the mainstream at some point.

“The fact that a ‘shitty Arab country’ visual shorthand already exists says enough,” Nadia Shammas told me during a video call. “A shorthand, that, by the way, did not exist—it had to be punched into culture over and over and over again for it to stick in the subconscious to such an extent that you don’t even question…

Found the genocide apologist

Damn, well said. 

Americans cope backwards and scheme forwards.

Its not that videogames are the sole problem. Its that, as you pointed out, they are one outlet and re-propagator of a very large cultural issue (which I think the article does go into). So we have identified an issue. Where can we start addressing it? Everywhere we find it, and in this case, in this community, with…

There is an actual definition of genocide and what Israel is currently doing absolutely meets that definition. It does not require the complete elimination of an ethnic group. The hallmark of genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a ethnic, religious or other group. Israeli leaders at all levels have…

Wait is that Lindsay Ellis and are you Doug Walker? Cuz if so that's a weird post given y'all's history...

And how most people didn’t seem to react to Spider-man sitting there among them!

“Wouldn’t it be tidier to write “Seven-Eleven” or “7-11"? Why not “7/Eleven”? Doesn’t the numerical “7” just look wrong at the start of a sentence? Knowing the chain’s history clears some of this up.”

Your “budget” laptop recommendation is still $800. Not budget for many students. Maybe don’t dismiss the $400-500 laptop out of hand, but do the legwork that these students need to help them identify which budget laptop will be the best option for them. This might be a chromebook, sure. But a midrange chromebook will…

How involved? Well they doled out the money and put the people in place who let this happen. This is yet another failure of the DNC on their watch. Thanks for asking.

I’m glad you asked. Who sets the tone, doles out money and hired the goons who let this happen for the National party?

It all depends on the architecture they use for the internals.

Oh they absolutely will try something completely different, just look at their last 4 consoles and how much changed.

I’m going to start using “Walkingdude” as a slur.

I doubt it would happen, but it would be kind of funny if Ryan Reynolds is like the *only* main cast member in DP3 not to say “fuck”. Like, every time he is about to he gets punched in the head or something. But everyone else says it like it’s no issue.

Hopefully we’re reaching the point where Step 1 in the problem solving process for Pokemon is just having the developers openly admit they don’t know how to do something.