The difference between Liberal and Conservative: If a Conservative hates cruises, they don’t go on a cruise. If a Liberal hates cruises, they don’t want YOU to go on a cruise.

They can’t fly it, but they can make it a permanent fixture of their fleet, sending it off on loot-gathering missions across the galaxy.

“No Man’s Sky became Normandy’s Sky”

Yeah, yeah. I know. Shoulda went with Farsi, but I was too late for Kinja either way. Oh well. If that’s the worst mistake I make in a day, I’m cool with that. 

After Spottiswood was fired earlier this year, and Harris-Lawrence installed as full showrunner, there was some hope that the legal series—which saw Simone Missick playing a rookie judge navigating court cases that touched on everything from ICE to Black Lives Matter—might be able to get back on track.

LOL that’s assuming they are being an abusive bully as an adult. Because people don’t grow up and don’t change for the better. But hey, let’s be psychos stalking adults over things they did as FUCKING CHILDREN. StoneMustard is right - no one sane would be able to live with themselves causing harm to actual fucking…

The white guilt fueled Kotaku dilemma.  

Took the words right out of my mouth.  Damned if you do...

The world is filled with people who aren’t like them?  Well, what the fuck is stopping that WORLD FULL OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE from making their own shit? 

This. Exactly this. It’s almost like some folks just want to complain no matter what the topic. Harry Potter folks tried and got ripped for the attempt. Want a black trans person in a video game? Make your own game. Trying to enforce outcomes by pointing pitch forks and torches is a bad bad idea. Said company might…

There is one way to improve opportunity for everyone and help mitigate / alleviate any suspicion or risk of possible discrimination, no matter how conscious or subconscious such discrimination may be : Have candidates apply to a dev team with a portfolio of sorts under a pseudonym or completely anonymously. Interview…

Not a developer, but a writer, and that first one nags at me all the time. Because I’m a cis-gendered white male, and the characters in my stories want to be everything but that.

Can’t help but notice that your examples presume the fact that AAA-game developers are white, straight, cis dudes.

Ridiculous: Not being able to tell the difference between games that heavily involve personalised experiences of highly specific characters and games where you play a blank-slate character that could look like anyone or anything.

Woke: Devs, don’t make games about minority identities you can’t personally speak to, as that is appropriation and you’ll likely screw it up.

I agree. It’s just the continuation of whiteness. And, I can hear and feel the collective shrugging and asking “Ugh, what do you want us to do?” That’s the problem. They can’t figure out that the country, the world is filled with people who don’t look or sound like them. People who aren’t props in the playhouses of…

That's hilarious. I'm picturing a giant, dingy, un-air conditioned room full of desks with people frantically drawing unicorns and multi-colored kittehs while Lisa Frank shouts at them over a loud speaker. OK, maybe not hilarious for the employees, but considering her "work" it's rather comical that she would be an…

She told me they were not allowed to talk to each other while on the clock. Like there was no friendly chit-chat permitted. If you got up to go the bathroom, you did not stop by someone's cube to say hello and talk a minute. She told me they were basically terrified of Lisa Frank.

"Rainbow colored gulag" is an awesome phrase.

Lisa Frank is pretty legendary in Tucson as being the shittiest, bitchiest, meanest boss to ever grace the planet earth. The general consensus is that she is a terrible person. I used to work across the street from her headquarters building and I worked with a former Lisa Frank employee who confessed that it was as…