This seems like a design flaw. If no opponent is contesting the objective and the barrier has been pushed further by your team already, shouldn’t the match just end? Are there greater rewards for getting the barrier all the way to the enemy spawn that the game is accounting for when letting you continue the game while…

No one is asking you to forgive him. But presuming that the victims saying that this is a good first step for them is only because of public pressure removes just as much agency from them as the people you see as defenders of sexual violence. You’re not white knighting, per se, but you are arguing that any person that…

Expecting that an abuser make his victims whole is holding the abuser accountable. I don’t know what made you think that was somehow freeing him from accountability. Saying “he’s moving in the right direction” isn’t even remotely close to giving him a “free pass”, he’s still expected to keep moving in the right…

Quidditch always seemed like a sport created by someone who knew nothing about sports and what makes them work as games or as entertainment.

What on earth is this article? You say it’s steeped in assault allegations and then it turns out to be a throwaway line at the very end where it turns out two (2!%) of the (unnamed) contestants have allegations against them. Is that even higher than the average at all?

It has literally nothing to do with the show, or…

Or, they did it for just Japanese speakers to enjoy. Not everything is about trolling. 

I’ve legitimately never seen Ashley in ME2/3, in all my play throughs, because in a choice between boring and racist, I choose boring. I know she allegedly learns and grows by ME3, but Shepard doesn’t know that when making that choice.

Plus Ashley is a space racist and her name is already Ash

There is a trans NPC in the game. Not a particularly important person in the narrative, but the dialogue makes the trans identity clear.

When every studio and publisher has created their own platform and we’re expected to buy a subscription to all of them? Yes.

You do start with the thunder ball, which Marcus uses to either bean enemies in the head or choke out with the tether. I used it primarily through that game too, up until the later beat where you lose a friend. I figured that was a good time to harden him up a bit and switch up the gameplay.

Two things of note here. 1) The core gameplay is still really good. It’s fast paced, fun, and there doesn’t seem to be anything else quite like it out there at the same quality. The community is relatively tight knit, especially those that kept playing through the two years with no content updates. People are invested…

Sethrivyus has already done a much better job than I could have pointing out how wrong this is but I’d like to add that no art is truly original. Art is not something created from whole cloth and everything is derivative to some extent because it all follows on from what came before. It takes a supreme amount of…

Educate yourself. The information is all out there.

This is factually incorrect and doesn’t even pass a basic logic test: if AI is just storing and ‘collaging’ existing art, why is the offline (offline remember, once training is done, you dont need internet to run one of these) training data from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes of art data, only a few gigs or even…

No this is spoken by someone who has clearly never learned a skill or craft. I’ve learned several. I paint, I’ve done woodworking, I play card games competitively. So I’m well fucking aware of how nothing I do is wholly original. The majority of what I’ve learned over the years I’ve learned by copying others. I see a…

“If a human made an exact copy of another human’s drawing”

This is always going to be a super problematic argument because what critics of AI art don’t want to admit is that human artists train themselves on vast amounts of copyrighted work with “no consent, no credit, and no compensation”. There are thousands of artists who have learned to ape other artists styles, and based…

Agreed, thanks for your comment as it adds a lot of color to how I personally feel (we seem to be on a very similar page). I have a lot of causes and things I choose to be active about but I recognize WE are all part of much bigger system with a lot working against us on individual and communal levels.

I mean most of America is complicit in child labor, war crimes, global poverty, authoritarian regimes, racism, and the list goes on and on. That’s just the nature of capitalism, and getting on your high horse over this issue doesn’t make you morally superior. It just doesn’t.