While I agree that story is not headline news, it’s also not like they didn’t cover the buyout news either.

Yeah, they weren’t really saying they were surrendering and “letting” people die. They’re more like acknowledging the fact that the event was vaccine and mask mandated (which you even say all things should be) and the point of said mandates is in order for things to function in a “normal” way. Whatever normal may be,…

I was at MAGFest, and honestly it felt pretty safe. There was room to social distance, people were good about policing masking (both attendees and staff), and there were air-fives, elbow bumps, and waves aplenty. I’m quarantining now out of caution until I can get tested, and many people I know have been testing daily…

Hey, if shaming individuals while ignoring and dismissing massive systemic issues that have caused this pandemic to last two years makes you feel better go for it.

And that’s totally your personal decision and everyone respects that! I could never hold that against someone. Just like it was my personal choice to go because I knew I was as safe as I could possibly make myself + I can safely isolate after. Whatever you’re comfortable with should be the most important, not what…

Like, yeah. I could catch COVID from 4 hours on the convention floor where vaccines and masks are mandatory.

59 out of 10,000 attendees in a weeks time is an infection rate less than HALF the rate of the population as a whole. Less than 0.5% of attendees.

The US is currently experiencing a rate of about 6 million cases a week. With Omicron exploding in the past couple weeks, about 1.7% of the entire population is getting…

No surprise here.

I’m with you, dude. The people there took reasonable precautions and made their own risk assessment about their attendance. Given Omicron’s spread, some exposure was inevitable, and they knew it. In all likelihood, responsible adults who vaccinated+boosted+masked are just going to get a mild cold if they get it. This…

I was at MAG. I tested negative, I feel great. I give them a lot of credit for going beyond the county mask mandate and requiring full vaccination to attend. People were also following the mask mandate, too. I was really impressed with what the con was doing and I appreciate their transparency about where people may…

Isn’t this why Amazon watchparties exist? Still, streaming a show isn’t the same thing as streaming a videogame. The viewer isn’t experiencing all of the game, unlike a show or movie. This is a negative for copyright holders.

Except, it isn’t exactly the same. Because you likely have their face somewhere on the screen along with whatever commentary they add to it. While I love twitch streams and spend way more time watching it than I should, I would never use twitch as a source for watching or “pirating” anime. I enjoy having commentary on…

Except exposure really has worked in the past. Look at anime, a great deal of it’s popularity is due to the exposure anime got through early fansubbing. And then take video games, kids in particular seem to be heavily influenced by what streamers are playing and helping make popular.

It does normalize it and make many people incurious about it, and I’m pretty sure less likely to oppose it.

Hey, did you know that LGBT representation in media won’t make you gay? It probably increases acceptance of LGBT people, though. Similar phenomenon.

Motivating somebody to commit an act of literal violence is a much higher bar than motivating somebody to root for a republican politician.

To prove my memory was working correctly:

What? What the hell are you talking about? You do realise that what you say here directly contradicts what you said before about this being just a fun piece of entertainment?

The negative attention isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Whipping up controversy is a well-worn marketing tactic, because there are those who will buy and ardently defend it purely for culture-wars reasons.

You don’t have to explain the genre to me, I loved SWAT 3 and 4 and know what these games are... that’s why I said there’s merit for these games, and a liberal argument for them is that they teach proper, professional police work and how it should be done. They also humanize police officers and is a tool for empathy…

As someone who really enjoys the game, he is right with the cuffing and punching. It’s not a choice, it’s a set animation that has a chance of happening whenever you cuff a suspect.