Can we recognize patterns instead of jumping on the usual “actually every fandom has this problem” explanation? It’s stale and overused, and it ignores reality.

I don’t even see the Matrix code anymore. All I see is... blonde, brunette, redhead...

I too remember when the Pokemon were based off of animals like:

there is only one pokemon and his name is trubbish and he’s my son

I think it is important for media where the message that “anyone can be a hero” to actually live up to that thesis.

So it’s pretty cool that a) the lead character (inasmuch as prominence in marketing material goes) in one of the biggest games in recent memory is queer, and b) her sexuality is presented as a totally normalized part of her life, not as a dark secret or moral shame. Progress!

That control scheme does not sound intuitive. It sounds bad. Learning a bad control scheme to make a game work probably means the game isn’t very good.

It sucks about the “NotAllMen”-ing going on with the expression, because I really like when people or groups are able to celebrate themselves without disparaging others. That sounds like exactly what #BlackExcellence is trying to do.

Good read, but I wish the whole of Kofi’s excellent explanation was posted or linked to:

Videogames arent for fish.

Yeah that’s cool.

Yeah I played it really early on when it was clearly a game under construction. It just really didn’t do it for me. The cel shading was cool for the characters, but made the environment look awful, and the spawning unit system seemed kind of half-baked.

That’s basically what Team Skull is: A bunch of young people who couldn’t pass the island challenge, so they take up being hoodlums.

Also: They’re not the real villains in the game, either, so that’s what makes them so refreshing by the end of the journey. I’ve had enough stupid Team villain shit trying to take over…

Me. I noted it up there ^.

“mother nature effectively made LGBT “less”, being just a deviation of a healthy specie.”

Trump not only doesn’t know anything about our One China policy, he has no desire to learn anything about it. For Trump, EVERYTHING is filtered through his giant ego, and only issues with a direct connection to himself personally have any meaning.

I can’t decide which is worse. The President-Elect’s family thinking that their son MAYBE having autism is worthy of a defamation lawsuit, or the President-Elect’s family using intimidation tactics against an autistic teenager who was trying to convince people to leave their son’s behavior alone.

Yeah that horrible fanbase is going to....read the book?????

“Free speech” is like “free market” — a decent enough guiding principle, but for devils in the details. There’s nothing censorious about being unwilling to entertain hate. The idea that any form of speech should be defended is morally bankrupt and completely untenable in any civilized society. There’s a swastika in a…