Let the Inceneroar/Meowscarada forbidden romance slashfic COMMENCE!

That sounds more reasonable but, I dunno. Even back then Europe wasn’t all that “white”, the Persians, Turks , Berbers and Andalusians had been on the continent for more or less the entire history.

Look, I really do enjoy Kotaku overall, and I adore that it’s such a prominent outlet and continues to be explicitly on the side of progress rather than the usual gamer sexism/racism/queerphobia/toxicity/etc. etc. etc. As a Latine gay guy, it’s important to me, and I can only imagine what Black (and Asian, and other…

Yes agreed, Sisi took some of this out of context for a rage bait article. If the game is all white people, that is fine. If it’s all black people that would be cool. All Asian people, alright by me. Some mix of everything, great! A more diverse cast makes for a better experience in my opinion. But, not all games need…

Yeah, but context doesn’t make rage bait articles!!

That actually makes much more sense when it's in context.

This. Lived experience is something of a double-edged sword in some instances.

My therapist has a term for this. It’s a “reason”, not an “excuse”. Just because they do it, doesn’t mean it’s right, but understanding the reason can help to understand the people.

We don’t have to like it, but we do have to accept that not all cultures share the same values. That has always been true and always will…

I fail to see the issue.

I love how Kotaku left out the last part of his answer from the article completely. Taking things out of context and only providing snippets. Here is the second half of his answer:

I am not gonna get caught up in this until the game releases but that quote was limited and the full quote makes a bit more sense

No. They’re afraid of getting the POC characters “wrong” according to Kotaku, Polygon or Vice and end up being raked across the coals by all game journalist for it. 

While still disappointing, I don’t find it very surprising that a developer from a country in which 98% of the population share the same ethnicity and culture struggles to grasp the depht and importance of representation issues.

This company could fuck up Jell-O.

Can’t wait to watch this flop. Yoshi P is carrying Squeenix on his back right now.

The one time I get a little hype over a rumor and it turns out to be some NFT profile pictures or some shit lol. Only thing I can do is laugh 

I’m looking forwards to the excuses Square Enix will spew when this goes badly for them.

No, I’m not. I’m not expecting anything different from Coke either, or Adidas, or any other World Cup sponsor.

How is it a waste? It’s his car and he seems to be having a great time with it. That’s the best use of a car I can think of. And it ain’t exactly an F40, either.

I buy cars because they go vroom, now becsuse of HOW they go vroom.