“Destiny 2 feel like being in Video Game Purgatory, waiting for the game to get good or unplayably bad and recognizing they’ll likely do neither.”

That pretty much sums up the entire Destiny franchise, tbh.

If they do use fruit-sorting machines in Canada, I’m not really seeing, ahem, the ‘fruits of their labours’, literally and figuratively. Most of the fruits I’ve ever bought in a Canadian grocery store are hit or miss in terms of sweetness and flavour, etc.

“You realize that those things exist in other countries, don’t you?”
One could say that about pesticides and ‘other chemicals’. ;(

Granted, even though Japan ranks 9th in the world for pesticide use (after Canada; USA is second, after China), this article points out that it comes in higher concentrations due to the…

^(Amazon) Prime example of how capitalism absolutely destroys human empathy and incentivizes inhumane behaviours and attitudes:

“The seven workers at Amazon who lost their lives were involved in several different kinds of accidents and crashes. According to the report, two were crushed by forklifts in the warehouses,…

Any sort of ‘option’ where socioeconomic and political conditions under capitalism actively prevent workers from choosing any other ‘option’, is neither optional nor voluntary, since the alternative option is to starve.

And Swag Bucks are basically a form of video game microtransaction within a closed economy within Amazon where ‘players’ (workers) pay for said microtransactions with time spent out of their limited time on this planet, in exchange for Amazon ‘swag’ (i.e. free advertising for Amazon worn by their own employees).

“Amazon, by not employing the small business owners directly, has a lot of leverage over them,” said Mitchell, who noted that Amazon’s use of independent contractors is undercutting unionized, higher paid workforces at UPS and the United States Postal Service. “It’s not an independent business. You can only use…

Because your employer isn’t paying you what your labour is actually worth, a.k.a. economic exploitation, a.k.a. capitalism.

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Bungie could fix 99% of Destiny 2's issues by... you know, reading their playerbase’s comments. In the comments threads. On their own site. :P

I’ve literally heard both the complaints and possible solutions posited by the players of Destiny last year, and the year before, and Bungie heeded very few of them. And the way…

Comrade Punisher

Apparently all white guys are edgelords at that age. I’m glad he grew up.

She can be Princess Prejudice then. :P

Oh wow! _That_, I didn’t know. I was always sad Captain Terrell didn’t get to do much more than die (albeit sacrificing himself to save Kirk and co.) in Wrath of Khan. :(

Collectivized. :)

I’ll never get tired of watching it. Or indeed, re-posting it. ;)

[Image: Jean Yoon as Captain Theresa Yao of the MCRN Donnager, from the science-fiction series _The Expanse_] 
What a Martian might look like. <3

I’m still wondering why you think there aren’t vast differences in the appearance of Asians.

I’ve been on the internet since before there was a graphical world wide web, and since the advent of the graphical www, I’ve only seen two people who look even remotely like me.

“It would actually be rather off putting to make all of the characters Asian cause it would make the characters look too similar to each other...”

... because all Asians look the same? *sarcasm* 

That it’s a white-washed cast.

I don’t see it as ‘brilliance’ but rather simply cultural appropriation which is part and parcel of imperialism-colonialism. That they were very good at assimilating other cultures in a Borg-like fashion, the same could be said for the Romans, or indeed the English.

I definitely agree that the Japanese are…