I very rarely side with the “now so you’re just being silly” side on this issue... but yeah, that piece might be pushing things a bit too far.

I’d like to see that ethos applied to, say, Amos n’ Andy. (Well, actually, I wouldn’t.)

This is really the BLUF of the article - “As long as you have one of those Android phones and you’re in range of a Gigabit LTE signal it should work automatically.” Title is misleading, like you’re going to tell me how to/enable gigabit but really I just need to buy a new phone.

So this doesn’t tell you how to “get gigabit LTE on your Android phone.” It tells you which devices to buy if you want to have access to it.

Nowhere in this article does it say “how” to actually get it. It says how to get “less than 1gbps” from a carrier. SSDD. The 4g connection is specced at 1Gbit/s for walking and stationary and 100Mbit/s for high speed travelling endpoints. Just more marketing schmucks being marketing schmucks.

“all they need to do is include at least one human person of color to be present. And doing so...will ensure that no one accuses the developers of racism.”

Or we could stop inserting politics into everything...

Yeah, this is what gets to me. I mean, if they were referencing a specific type of art that was only tied to racism, that’s different. But this art wasn’t inherently racist. It was just spawned in a time where society was far more openly racist than today.

That too! I haven’t watched that though. Just the Betty Boop cartoons.

I just think that aesthetically, given the fact that the game’s story is set in motion by reckless gambling, King Dice’s design works far better thematically (and though i didn’t get as far as fighting him yet, I’ll bet his actual battle supports his design as well). Not to mention that having an evil boss as the…

Should everything ever that references something old have a disclaimer that says ‘in this era people were racist/sexist/etc’?

That is 100% true. I’d actually say as a counterpoint to this post that it is incredibly easy to separate the two, almost everyone who has heard about or played CupHead already has. Sure some do it by not being aware of every single thing from the past and how it may or may not connect to racism at that time period,…

Dumb article that only exists for a click, which in turn references a dumb essay that itself only exists for a click.

“Hey guys, some people used this art/historical moment/idea for racist/sexist/etc. purposes, and it is wrong wrong wrong to reference the art/historical moment/idea without referencing (read:…

Everything from that era was racist. We don’t need a modern video games to cover that, we can just watch/discuss old media. Also, you should watch old cartoons! EVERYONE must know of Cab Calloway.

Obviously keeping the racist undertones would be bad. But not having them is also bad? Should everything ever that references something old have a disclaimer that says ‘in this era people were racist/sexist/etc’? Hell, considering how shitty people still are, even that could be considered whitewashing by suggesting…

I love watching streamers play with randos for this reason. For every 10 games you’re teamed with people yelling obscenities, it’s worth for that one where you can tell the person feels like the luckiest person in the world being teamed with a streamer they recognize.

I met the Doc once and he is such a nice guy, although he is a character actor I don’t think this is fake

So that praise kek shit people say is actually an alt-right thing?

Isn’t that something from 4Chan?

.... Is 4chan an alt-right thing, now?

Agreed completely dumb

This is all kinds of dumb.