In short, it’s the Roman Republic leading up to its collapse

The argument for not allowing the government to police hate speech is fairly straightforward though: Do you trust the government to say what speech is hate speech and to police that speech?

I’m not advocating for a particular answer, but I do think there are compelling interests against criminalizing hate speech. I…

Don’t forget. If you talk bad about him though, you’ll get banned from Twitter. 

Oh look, you have an opinion piece. Sorry you have such a hard time with the fact that our society isn’t perfect.

Its probably because I just don’t travel or participate in those particular circles, but I never encountered anyone who was assholish about HoL. Typically, it was just commiserating over having completed it.

Kotaku is blacklisted by so many publishers. They’re not paid by anyone to not trash anything.

You’re going to have to do way better than a comment on the AV Club to get them to run a train on you.

That’s got to be one of the most insane-person responses to a game I’ve ever seen, which is saying something given how long I’ve been on the internet.

I find it surprising that you read a niche gaming blog like Kotaku but didn’t know about the spiritual successor to Bioshock that was revealed a year ago at the biggest event in the gaming industry (The Game Awards)

yeah but with longer episodes they actually have MORE time than the cartoon. 

You must be completely disconnected from the world at large, especially if you are on the internet for more than 10 minutes a day, to think that trans issues (along with LGBT+ writ large) are not the current cultural flashpoint in most developed countries.

Right, part of the point is that Sokka’s sexism is ingrained in the Water Tribe culture and he has to actively fight against it. It’s part of Katara’s arc too, to defy the expectations that she should just be a healer and leave fighting to the men.

“It’s a kids show (or family show at most)“

I kind of don’t think so. It would simply have to be a different arc. Sokka’s views about women weren’t arbitrary. It’s actually tied to his role in the Southern Water Tribe, as well as Water Tribe culture in general, when it’s a key plot point later in the series. Plus, it’s almost the entire basis of his growth with…

In my opinion, all of those ideas lack any real weight compared to what the original show was able to capture with his sexism. Calling it a “kids show” implies that children don’t encounter these real, difficult interactions in their lives growing up and are somehow incapable of processing what’s happening. Many of us…

I think Sokka’s sexism is important because it’s not just him; when the Gaang gets to the Northern Water Tribe, Katara is told she can only train as a healer because that’s the role for women who are water benders there. Sokka has just picked up the customs of the earlier generations, and like a lot of the stuff…

They were cringeworthy in the animated show. They were meant to be cringeworthy. You can tell almost immediately that Katara is level-headed and responsible and that Sokka’s comments about gender aren’t based on any rational thinking. It’s not exactly subtle, but this is a kid’s program, and when those teach lessons…

I mean I guess?... but if the issue is the character arc is about getting over his flaw/wrong attitude, he kind of has to have one in the first place. So your only option is giving him a different flaw/bad worldview and at that point I mean what’s the point? So we can see him get over (feel free to insert your own bad…

That gets a bit tricky since the episodes are all an hour long, which means that even with just eight they have more total minutes than the cartoon’s twenty half-hour episodes minus commercials.

Transphobia is a huge issue. Don’t comment if your life doesn’t get impacted by such issues.