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I was thinking about an underground railroad game along the same lines. It is possible to make an educational game about slavery that does not manage to be pure evil.

"…perceived to be insensitive by some people"

That's a relief. Any deeper into the 21st Century and it would start to get embarrassing.

Reminds me of the Australian thing with black-face. I always hear white Australians talking about how Australia is different than the US because black-face is perfectly fine and meant as good-natured fun — ignoring the fact that that's the exact same excuse white Americans used to give for black-face being fine.

Pretty slavey, sis!

Finally someone is taking a stand against the Common Core.

Kind of answered the question posed by your name.

The most realistic feature is that when you stop playing the game, even if you uninstall it, institutional racism takes hold of your computer for centuries to come.

Hey, they're just writing the computer code that we're all thinking.

Countless lives are destroyed.

Someone remind me, what did flying dragons and anthropomorphic mice have to do with the transatlantic slave trade?

Good, but Roger Moore would never speak in exclamation points.

Well, they are rubbish.

Honestly it's probably good for him. It means that he's not going to be defined by this role because people are already trying to picture others in it. He can go on to have an eclectic career without being typecast.

Harry Palmer? That's a real thing? [Googles] Oh, you Brits and your silly naming conventions.

Hey man, keep me in mind for Prop Joe.

I could be something of a cautionary tale, Ghost of Christmas Future version of Idris, I suppose.

They could start the next one with a time-traveling Joe Don Baker to explain how both time-lines still exist.

It was specifically those two roles though. Stringer Bell showed he could be charming and coldly menacing at the same time and Luther was brooding and vulnerable. It was something of a perfect storm. I know there are others, there are always others, but those two roles being so iconic put him into the consciousness in

I always felt that Oliver wasn't nearly Danish enough to play Hamlet.