Because the overwhelming number of folks that show up on screen (especially in main roles) are white, so having a person of color fill a role previously portrayed as white is fine because it helps push against that trend whereas having another white person taking a role that would otherwise be a person of color winds…

Simple.  Because blackwashing is not a thing.  It doesn’t exist.  

But what we’re seeing here, in this very example, is not progress. Do you think anyone in the planning meeting resisted the addition of Angrboda?

If you think a game like God of War is only played by liberals who live in a liberal echo chamber, or that “everyone is on board,” then you’re painfully naive, and you haven’t seen the howls of outrage from exactly the sorts of bigots you’re raging against. The fact that this angers them means that it sent the…

The article is talking about representation in video games. High profile examples of well-executed diversity in big budget games IS a sign of progress of representation in videogames. Nobody is expecting, or asking, a videogame to solve racism or something, that’s your own weird stuff you’re bringing to the…

Representation is progress and you don’t get to tell the people being represented it isn’t.

“Luckily they eventually realized they gave my man a yee yee ass haircut in the first Spider-Man.”

The Original Ashy Larry.

... oh my god, I just realized that Kratos is LITERALLY ashy from head to toe. Thank you for making my morning full of laughter.

“Since that doesn’t actually explain shit, though”

I was there, and the drop was pretty impressive. A slo-mo version that starts when he’s already on the way down doesn’t do it justice.

Medvedev is not the most demonstrative and spontaneous of player, but he does have a good sense of humor, so it makes sense he would do a strange celebration like that. A kind of parody of these iconic moments when the winners fall to the ground like they have been stroke by lightning.

Perpetually 12 and confused? The first time I played Wario Ware I was 24 and drunk. If I play the new one, there’s a good chance I’ll be drunk, but I sadly don’t think I’ll ever feel 24 again. 

He broverdid it.

Man, I wish that was still how the world worked! 

I worked at CitiField for two seasons like 10 years ago. I was the only person who knew how to clean the ice cream machine, so I had to do it every night. It taught me a good lesson: don’t be the guy at work who knows how to do things, because there’s no benefit to you. 

ah, so you’re arguing in bad faith. A pity.  Carry on, I guess.

Man, 3rdGenT4R has been wheeling around this comment section like physical media killed his parents. Calm down. Let people enjoy things. That is all.

It’s not (potentially) racist because the villains are Yakuza, it is (potentially) racist because the plot seems to involve a white person in Japan killing dozens and dozens of Asian people as quickly as she can. Yes, they are the “bad guys,” but this movie doesn’t exist in a vacuum; the white person versus hordes of…

I think the Speed Racer movie was honestly better than the show.