I’m so glad to hear that Ryan Fischer is doing ok! He has a long road ahead of him (how could he not develop PTSD from this?) but it sounds like he is receiving lots of love & support. Gun violence is so horrific and gunshot victims and their families have to live with the consequences of it for the rest of their…

I’ve played Pacifist twice, despite the fact that I know I’m missing content, because the idea of a genocide run fills me with such guilt at the idea of harming a single one of those charming pixels.

Grandia III has a young mom (your character’s mom, maybe?) as a party member early on, though I think she’s only around for a few hours. It was neat though.

Barret’s improvement in Remake (the de-T-ification) is enhanced even further by Marlene being the single best kid character I’ve ever seen in a video game. As some who’s worked with kids for years, I’ve always been put off by how poorly kids are portrayed in pretty much every medium where they aren’t the main…

Honestly, I just want jeans with a medium wash, decent sized pockets, and don’t have holes already in them. In a variety of rises.  I’m not a fan of high waists, so give me mid-rise please.

Funny how so many of these “cancelled” folks get... piles of other opportunities. Do they lose works and jobs and profile? Sure. But they’re hardly voiceless or lacking employment. 

“Not that they endorse anything that I’ve said, of course, but at least they seem more concerned with making good games than with pushing some kind of a social justice agenda, so there is hope.”

This idea that Superhero movies prevent other movies from being made is so bizarre and so obviously subjective. Fucking Parasite just won multiple Academy Awards! We’re supposed to be in some era of cultural hegemony of the super hero blockbuster and yet a foreign-language film about the evils of capitalism was one of…

I saw somebody describe it as “Drawn Together” for games (in reference to the “cartoon characters that swear and have sex” show on Comedy Central in the mid-2000s), which uh... I don’t think was meant as a compliment.

Yes, please. Preferably in a point-and-click adventure game alongside Christopher Lloyd. 

owning a Wii-U was great. Some of the best games ever were on it, and it played all of my Wii games, too.

Also worth noting is that in the future they have finally moved beyond gender, as people simply choose their “style” at the start of the game, and all clothing and hairstyles are available to everyone.

I think the closest to a positive portrayal of a trans character back then was probably Denise in Twin Peaks. 

It’s not just this movie, it’s how every single piece of mainstream media that included trans-coded characters back then, made them villains or freaks. There were no positive mainstream portrayals, period. I can only imagine how damaging that cultural context was to young trans people who were just finding themselves,…

These are the people who are calling Springsteen a Communist because he was:
- paid for his work
- advertising a product
- for a multi-billion dollar corporation
- during the biggest annual advertising event there is

Yeah.  Cop out answer but he was complicated.  The man who employed black artists like Floyd Norman and Jewish writers like the Sherman Brothers, but who also met with Leni Riefenstahl.  Someone who employed a lot of women, but who's characters are often derided as misogynistic.  A man who claimed to view his workers…

If you are putting Twitter privileges on one side of a scale and Jewish lives on the other and they come out equal, your scale is weighted against Jewish lives.

When your personal politics are so far right that late-stage capitalism looks leftist...

I have no sympathy for a transphobic anti masker who sees herself perpetually as the victim. Real empowering.  Hanging out with the twerp who thinks Hitler was a leftist and Muslims are all hateful monsters just proves to us all that she was a terrible person.

The legions of supposed fans who seem to have completely missed the moral lessons of properties like Star Wars, Star Trek, various comic book heroes... do we really need to implement a test before people are allowed to enjoy entertainment? How do you not fucking get Star Wars?