How much of a character is “Barbie,” though? Barbie’s character traits are entirely dependent on who’s playing with her.

the people who need to sit down and put themselves in other’s shoes are the exact type of people who lack the introspection to ever realize that.

Exactly— If these dicks are going to complain “I have a right to be an asshole!” then we have the right to tell them to fuck off for being an asshole.

“We should be allowed to joke and mock anything, everything, all the things, without limits”

And without consequences, which is where the bitterness comes from. There is no law that says I have to find your unfunny business funny. Nor that I can’t talk about how unfunny it is.

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South Korean ex-pats living in the USA have the most nuanced take on this, and if you want to see it, I recommend looking through the pop culture subreddits.

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Also no one is sincere who rants about Hitler and Jewish people for years on end, then suddenly comes forward with his version of a PR apology sprinkled ever so gently with crazy dust, without warning and on social media. Just to articulate the point non-sarcastically, this is one of the least convincing celebrity…

Sure, but mental illness absolutely has nothing to do with being antisemitic, racist, sexist, Homophobic, transphobic, or any other bigotry.

Utter. Fucking. Bullshit.

“Cartoony platformer?!” Hold me back! :P

Heartbreaking, 65 is gone too soon.

Pax is still a massive thing as is the Comic Con. Cons are still a huge deal. E3’s whole purpose was to be the place where massive reveals happened, but then the big players realized that they could do their own thing with Direct, State of Play, etc and left the convention. E3 died because no one wanted to exhibit at…

Back in college I’d go to GenCon and Origins every year to get my annual fix of board games. Then GenCon got so prohibitively expensive that I couldn’t justify the price anymore, so I’d do Origins only as an excuse to catch up with college friends.

I get this sentiment. I’m Palestinian, and I think a lot of people misconstrue my wariness these days of being in a Jewish environment for disdain, hatred or animosity. And that thought keeps me up most nights. The fact of the matter is as a Palestinian, a Jewish person can mean anything. It can mean the people I’ve…

Neil Newborn’s genuine reaction to receiving his award makes it all worth it imo. But yeah they could do so much better.

The internet has this way with categorizing people into only two extremes with nothing in between. This particular conflict is a minefield. Thats why I’ve stopped commenting on it mostly and just say “killing people is bad no matter who you are”

Yeah, I also see this as a problem, being pushed from both sides. Racists want to conflate Jews with Israel so they can point to the actions of war criminals like Netanyahu and his government and say “see, Jews are bad”. On the other side, Israeli nationalists also want to conflate Jews with Israel so they can claim…

What doesn’t help is that there’s Israeli interests who explicitly WANT this confusion to exist because it helps their geopolitical interests.

(As well as evangelical death cult interests in the US who want this confusion to exist because System Requirement for their doomsday prophecies, but that’s a whole other thing)

He was, but then, pretty much ever mainline Ubisoft character was.