Feels like the story is “Man leaves young child alone”. Skipping passed the whole “leaving a kid that young alone” bit, the open window was probably not a great idea. Then again god knows we would have seen a “Kid suffocates in hot apartment” headline instead.

They’re really not a model we want to emulate if you talk their Muslim immigrant population.

IQ doesn’t measure parental responsibility (plenty of high-intelligence negligent parents, plenty of low-intelligence parents who raise good kids), so not only is your measure eugenic, it would be ineffective at addressing irresponsible parenting.

My favourite was people bitching about L being black in the netflix version of Death note, despite Kira being changed to a white guy.

Adaptation Of The Witcher: “Why so diverse?! Why no Europeans?! This is a fantasy world that’s loosely based on Europe! I demand white European writers!”

Seriously, white men have been writing for female and non-white characters for decades and they could care less. When non-white writers and female writers have an opportunity the concerns come rolling in about how they can’t properly capture the characters or even worse *gasp* create non-white male characters.

Where in the sweet fuck are these people when it comes to adapting media that isn’t European or even Western, or writing media about places that don’t fit that umbrella?

Ya you may have had an argument there until you lumped in scary movie with them. That’s like saying “I’m not into those types of dramas. Stuff like ‘call the midwife’ or ‘downton abbey’ or ‘Passions’.”

>Brooklyn nine nine

2018, the year we are all incredibly offended about nothing. We need a new world war to remind people how good we actually had it up to the war.

I used to be a straight “no” on this answer, but the more I think about it the cloudier the logic gets.

Video Game characters is a great comparison! We can draw a general comparison of Westworld with Grand Theft Auto in that they both afford the player opportunities to do good and bad things. I know of some people who have a hard time committing murder in a video game because it makes them feel uncomfortable. I have…

Here is the real question: how do you know that YOU are doing more than signaling a response to stimulus, more than a program made to simulate emotions in enough detail to pass for human is? How do you prove that you “feel” and it doesn’t?

So it’s ok when you HAVE to do those things in a game?

If a West World robot or a person tried to kill me, I’d have very little issue with killing them.

The game does all of the work it needs to and more to ensure that someone who knows nothing about Marvel or even Norse mythology as a whole knows exactly what Thor’s deal is. It shows you a huge statue of him, and makes a key plot point occur in the shadow of that statue’s hammer. It also talks about him a fair bit,…

I dunno if we should trust him with another daughter. He didn’t do a very good job with the first one.

I wish I could sue people for money when they don’t like the things I make....

Looks sweet, but why the dig at the movies? They were surprisingly decent and had a great feel. Better than lots of other attempts at comic-to-screen attempts.

It does seem...odd from a Western perspective, but it’s not unheard of. The bit about celebrities in the article reminded me of shades. Sunglasses were not seen as fashionable for a very long time, until celebrities started wearing them so they could blend in with the public and not be spotted. Sure enough, that made…