I think there’s a problem if your personal fantasy involves all the people in powerful positions being white.

To be fair to that last comment, I do wish I could mod it so my Imperium of Woman didn’t have any men in it. Alas I have to just enslave or purge my male pops. You know what they say, “Suffer not the Xenos, the Heretic, or the Man to live”.

yeah, i don’t disagree with you on the identity politics nightmare of the dem race right now at all, but it is still incredibly remarkable to me that david brooks pinpoints neither her record or her gender as the source of unlikability — and instead brings up the fact that she needs HOBBIES

...a culture that infuriates me? You mean that same culture I have spent years learning about, immersed in, adapting to, and being molded by? That culture? The one that is so much a part of my identity and sociocultural context that I’ve chosen to take on Japanese nationality and live here for the rest of my life.

I don’t consider Japan exotic or mysterious or unfathomable to me. It’s my home, after all.

Yes, it would make sense for them to have more stories about all the other ridiculously popular and rabidly anticipated games that were released this week.

Yeah, this seems the important point. Why should we accept white male as the default assumption. If those qualities are germane, somehow, to the plot, then so be it. But to not consider diversifying characters, and to get in the habit of diversifying them, keeps us stuck in the same characters all the time.

I mean, we’re not talking about creating characters and then gender-swapping them. We’re talking about a preproduction process where the writers might say something like “alright, and then Nate and Sam go into this old man’s house” and then someone says “what if it’s a woman?” and everyone’s like “hey yeah.” Maybe…

As a concept artist, I think asking that question consistently is really empowering, actually, as long as it’s responded to appropriately. It’s not a “can we fit a female/nonbinary/minority into this character?” sort of thing, it should be moreso “is this character better as something other than a while, straight…

Diversity is a good thing. Looking at every character and seeing if they should be female seems complete crazy to me. It’s rare that the gender matters at all in games (I mean storywise, not representation),so how do you have that conversation?

Have a limited transport budget. JR to Akabane, walk to Akabane-Iwabuchi which is on the Namboku line. Take Hanzoman to Koto-ku. Have a Metro pass, have to use Metro. Toei not covered.

...yeah, uh, no. No, it’s not. I recognise that most of my experiences come from attempts to generally be helpful to visitors. The vast majority of people who look like me in Tokyo are visitors. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not awkward, time-consuming and annoying. I have every right to vent. My decision to become…

That implies that friendship and sexual attraction are mutually incompatible. They’re not.

I’ve many friends whom I’m attracted to and would, were circumstances different, cheerfully sleep with. The fact that I’d be interested in having sex with them doesn’t negate my friendship with them, nor does it get in the way…

I’ve witnessed first hand plenty of people being led on

Nope. “The Friend Zone” is a horrible term that should be purged from the English language. Not only does it often lead to the “you owe me” issue that ariesdragon123 mentioned, but there’s also the fact that it 1) misdiagnoses the issue [It’s not that she doesn’t see you as a possible romantic partner because you’re…

The original response itself was already incredibly stupid from a PR perspective (think of the various ways it could’ve been said without sounding like the Con spokesperson was a jerk). The rest of it though...clearly Burleson believes in breaking the Law of Holes hard and fast.

I think he has the right idea, just the wrong words.

Yup. His original sentiment (of not caving in to the demands and privilege of some “famous” cosplayer) was totally fine, though he obviously should’ve been more professional.

Jeepers, talk about this con not listening to the criticisms. There comes a time when if everybody is telling you that you done fucked up, maybe you should consider if you done fucked up