And so what you’re suggesting is that these hypothetical writing staffs require non-white folks to be there as “authenticity checkers,” or something? What is the real argument here? Because I don’t get how this ultimately doesn’t boil down to “black people know black things, women know women things, gay people know…

I simply expect that white men will always be involved though, so my concern for them being completely excluded pertaining to non-white or non-male characters is non-existent. I expect that involvement will likely never change, maybe in how much they dominate a staff on sheer numbers, but never in some level of…

I don’t know if I’d agree that the lefts adoption of “It’s often argued black writers should be writing black characters...et al” is about cultural segregating that medium but about proper cultural representation...

Seriously, white men have been writing for female and non-white characters for decades and they could care less. When non-white writers and female writers have an opportunity the concerns come rolling in about how they can’t properly capture the characters or even worse *gasp* create non-white male characters.

I’ve never understood why kids allow themselves to get bullied

Rocket surgery, huh? I kinda like it!

Oh man I was going to say this was right up there with the one about Martha Kent killing time travelers, and SHE WROTE THAT ONE TOO.

TV has ruined me. Upon reading the first sentence, I immediately said “Maybe it’s rape, maybe it’s Maybelline.”

Someone send me off on an ice float. I’m done.

The resell market is still different, though you bring up a fair point.

Ah yes, the “sensitive people shouldn’t create things” argument.

I’m sick of this “don’t create anything if you can’t handle viscous assholes attacking you” attitude.

I mean, could you imagine, a world where emotionally sensitive people never created anything? How incredibly shitty would that be?

Just so we’re all clear: Knowing the consequences of your actions is not the same as knowing that your actions are wrong. I’m willing to bet we all have something that we know we’d be punished for but that we don’t think is morally wrong. Personally, I speed and watch pirated content and drink while fertile. Almost…

Yes, I’ve seen donations/gifts at multiple locations from Churches, Mosques, Temples, pretty much any place of worship you can think of including from people not affiliated with any religion. Anything from food, to cookies and sweets, to cards from children in schools wishing us a Merry Christmas while deployed or…

Very cool interview.

It’s frustrating to weigh the value of such content when dealing with triggers. So much stuff that is positive and impactful I feel does lose a certain degree of their power in being aware of the themes going in: Silent Hill 2 is a decent example where telling someone going in “hey, this has a lot of sexual violence,…

It’s kinda funny - I’ve lost both my grandmother and my stepfather this spring, and I felt the urge to play Binding of Isaac to help me cope. There’s something about this game that just appealed to me as I was grieving.

I went through a phase of prescription drug addiction and severe depression, during which I said some things that haunt me to this day.

Still, when I played “Dear Esther”, and my character was narrating about how he was “cramming Diazepam like he’d used to cram for chemistry exams” my reaction wasn’t to feel…

Direct cash payments to the poor are—by far—the most effective method of fighting endemic poverty. Not only do they build on local systems of knowledge, but moreover they are far more cost efficient and much easier to manage. All with added benefit of stripping out the disdainful paternalism to permeates so many other…

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.

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