But how do you draw the line?

If someone gets drunk and robs a liquor store but “didn’t mean it” when they sober up, they still robbed a liquor store. They still get arrested. They still go to jail.

The Wire article does a good job of dressing down why all this is stuff is so hard to figure out. This isn’t a Weinstein problem where someone did something objectively wrong; these cases are complex because a lot of them are pretty subjective: The perpetrator likely didn’t even realize they did anything wrong. That’s…

But it kind of makes michaelalwill’s point: Because this is likely a “He said She said” situation, then it’s incredibly easier to simply say nothing happened than to do something.  If a Twitter mob descends on Riot, who cares--an investigation happened and they found nothing.

1. Emotional intelligence has to be appreciated. Our School system focuses too much on STEM programming and making students focus entirely on making money rather than making them fully functional adults. You can have the highest IQ in the world and still be a dumbass and still believe in toxic ideas.

So what I’m saying is we very well may be systemically dumber, especially in some areas, because we spent 20 or 30 years intentionally damaging several of the mechanisms of our education system

I’d argue that people definitely got dumber. Technology got more advance, but we stayed the same. And we just couldn’t adapt to it. Sure dumb, hateful people have always existed, but social media has also made the lowest common denominatior the standard for everything. Remember, a lot of the people who fell for QANON…

With that said, there is an important discussion to be had about the power that Facebook and Twitter have as de facto public squares and how they wield that power. Unfortunately, those discussions are only really broached by bad faith actors which completely undermines what might otherwise be interesting discussion…

I do not doubt that Chris Roberts wants to make his game, I literally still have my copy of Claw Marks in pristine condition. But I’m not sure the game Chris Roberts wants to make is literally make-able right now. I still think there’s an excellent chance this entire effort ends badly. I don’t want it to. I love space…

The problem here is that CIG is a large corporation and it can absolutely be comprised of both sentiments: That CIG is doing enough and is doing too little. Never mind the pressures of not wanting to put out a negative image of your company.

I don’t think the people you posted are being insincere, but I also don’t buy…

ah there’s the boot licker.

“a lot of us older pokemon fans are going to have to come to the realization that we aren’t the target audience Nintendo makes Pokemon games for, anymore.”

And this is the main thing that I agree with—The pokemon fans are convinced that the series should evolve into this darker, complex take that appeals heavily to the…

Both. They’ve gotten million dollar investments from billionaires.

There is work that is being done: They have regular updates to the alpha as well as info for players. The problem is is that it feels like it’s all inservice of keeping the lights on rather than actually getting this game to release.

The appeal of SC is its potential and that’s what keeps people invested and dropping…

This. I will fucking buy it day one.  I need to see this trainwreck.

But that’s largely the point, right? That rumors of dissatisfaction among the staff suggest that there’s no real direction to Star Citizen: It’s just a money dump at this point. I feel like this absolutely confirms it.

Troubled productions largely fail because leadership blow through money at a rapid rate.  The only…

But guys you just don’t understand the SCALE and the SCOPE of Star Citizen. These developers should be constantly in jubilation for the ability to work on such an amazing such as Star Citizen. This is something that has never been done in gaming anymore. And if you have to break a few eggs—then so be it!

Nothing stands…

Dude grew up in a town with less than 10,000 people in it in rural Illinois. If you told me that some kid from a nothingburger of a town in rural Illinois only ever heard k*** in the context of 12 year olds screaming it into their mics on Call of Duty, I’d say it’s plausible, if not necessarily an open and shut case.

That’s so bullshit dude.  There are other media around: movies, television, books, etc...there is no possibility that he didn’t understand what it meant, or somehow only heard it contextless in gaming.  Let’s stop treating white people as blameless idiots.

I don’t think you need mass amounts of evidence to suggest that dude is probably an asshole.

And yeah, I think this situation is incredibly simple: Homeboy just decided to use a slur in public; team that he represents both on and off the courts decide they don’t want to associate with him anymore. It really is a simple…