Also, the idea that one’s library has that much to say about you really tends to apply to those with a one-shelf library. True bibliophiles (or, you know, flat-out book-hoarders, which I won’t deny kind of being), will have stuff they’ve well outgrown, to-read sections that they’re ages from getting through, and full…

Not sure how it’s a strawman when the person I replied to literally said:

Oh man, if they put Lucas in the Hammer pants .. 

1. That’s why Elliot used the term “hypersexualized”. Rockstar took two already sexy characters and dialed that sex factor up to 11.

“The Batman games we’re discussing aren’t your Lego Batman for babies. They’re games for adults.”

Ivy and Catwoman aren’t sex workers. They aren’t even people, they’re characters. And they are characters whose actions are determined by the whims of a mostly male-centric development team that clearly has problems with representing women without devolving into misogynist tropes that have been allowed to exist for…

Did you actually just imply that the use (and abuse) of the hyper-sexualized female character in video games is not widely seen as problematic? And thus it is quite common to not see this complaint is at all “absurd”.

“This misconduct reportedly also filtered into Rocksteady’s games, which include hypersexualized versions of Batman characters like Poison Ivy and Catworman.”

And even Vulcans still have emotions, they just willfully suppress them.

That recurring bite, sting and burn of racism is why I quit playing games like COD and Overwatch unfortunately. My “friends?” couldn’t understand why I would quit two games that I honestly excelled at over people being stupid and racist but I tried to explain to them that the mental toil of constantly seeing and…

I rarely comment. But you’re the shit Ash. I’ve enjoyed reading your work. And this a bum out to read. Just wanted to throw some positivity your way in shit times, from a long time reader of this site, recent reader of your work, and consumer of most nerd related things.

oh man it’s awesome. It’s beautiful and stressful and really really good.

Glad to hear they were banned. I am not shocked about the racism in an online community, I am shocked how overt that was.

On a side note, how is Lovecraft County?  I don’t have HBO but was intently looking forward to that series.

It makes one wonder if the people currently with the estate have read the books. Holmes is an antisocial eccentric, not a Vulcan.

I knew one of the guys called out and fired here, not well, but I knew his circle of friends much better. There is something to be said about the types of men in the gaming industry who do this, and the ones specifically called out, many of them were known for curating a social circle of being “cool” and “popular.”

Still trying to understand why, “...a company like Apple assigned the guy who made the iPad to try and have a go at making a car...”

If it’s anything like earlier Teslas, more like Sony Runoverman.

Sony Driveman. You heard it here first.

I’m sorry, but we “canceled” fucking Nazis back in 1945. My grandfather didn’t die killing those fucks so people like this asshole and you can have a “difference of opinion”. He should be punched in the face at every opportunity. As for your “both sides” comment. Your Gamergate is showing. Fuck off.