You know what is missing in this story? The fact that people still call the police. Never, ever, ever, call the police. You and your loved ones are in danger of being killed or jailed just for assuming that you, if you are black or brown, can use the armed State militia to help you. You can’t. You call and YOU are…

You’re not familiar with the progression. First, the current regime is replaced with a tyrant. THEN the tyrant is overthrown. They never got past part one, primarily because the tyrant typically isn’t afraid to oppress the working class with the military. The Qing Dynasty and the Romanovs don’t count, they were merely…

If you really want the “Heather isn’t fucking around version,” here it is:

Loot boxes are, ignoring the hair splitting of insufferable pedants like yourself, gambling. They are crafted, from probabilities to visual to their contents, to condition individuals and encourage repeated purchase and use. People with…

Worker and consumer rights are absolutely moral issues, largely because compensation for labor and the cost of goods (at least under capitalism) is fundamentally exploitative in execution. Usually, we roll with it and that’s fine. For instance, I don’t have a problem giving my guy at the bodega a buck for a soda even…

Okay, some further editorial.

Loot crates have always been a moral issue that the industry (publishers, devs, journalists, influencers, and whoever else) has mostly ignore or dismissed and that’s incredibly screwed up. Even cosmetic focused crates, which don’t affect gameplay, use specific audio/visual cues and…

In the immortal words of Dennis Green, Vice is who we thought they are.

The world is horrible so we should all be horrible to each other because that’s just the way it is and should be.

I can’t help compare and contrast this with Ferguson. Ferguson happened after a murderer walked free, the town erupted, and the response was militarized and brutal.

The alt-right protestors were protesting the removal of a statue of a segregationist and, many would say, traitor. Does that automatically make all of them racists? Maybe not all of them, but it’s a rather questionable cause they’re supporting.

Just goes to show that it’s all bs. Politics is nothing but interactive theater.

All media is political so it’s literally impossible to remove politics from video games.

Three thoughts, which are all able to co-exist quite nicely in my head:

I would like to remind everyone that this is not censorship and that Playtonic as a private business has the right to express itself as they see fit. If they do not wish to include voice work by a controversial figure in their video game that is well within their right. Jon’s free speech was not violated in any way…

The debate was spur of the moment, thinking on his feet with no time to apply a coating of bullshit to his viewpoints. Here he had time to prepare and cover the nastier parts of his views with the appropriate doublespeak.

Jon’s views aren’t based on real statistics, but from Breitbart bullshit. He argued that the most well off black person is still more violent and more likely to commit crimes than the worst off whites. Please don’t let him half-assedly backpedal from such a blatantly racist (and factually incorrect) statement.

 I am ex-military, so I used to be in really great shape until my thyroid was cooked by the nuclear ship I served on via radiation leak.

The really surprising thing to me about the Seinfeld complaint was that he’s playing colleges at all, he’s not an comic who’s moved with the times, and the current college audience aren’t going to have much nostalgia for his stuff either.

The point is that the article is addressing the much larger group of Christians that are constantly pushing an agenda where not being Christian, and especially not be religious makes you an immoral heathen. You don't get props for being a decent person, bc that's what you're supposed to be. By trying to get snaps for…

perfect. this is where i get to go all fox news and say,