Thank you for writing material I learned from. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I’ve got practically no power in the kind of crisis you describe, but I’ll try to follow and share the authors who take risks like you. Good luck.

Can’t take an explanation?

Wow, you’re not wrong. Turn up the brightness in the Yavin launch scene and it’s really clear.

And yet

Yes. It is a video game.

It makes perfect sense. You’re describing what someone could do to avoid something you see as awkward, neglecting that:

Amuro didn’t want to be rude to Beltorchika.

You’re right. Here’s a cap from the actual clip, where Amuro considers the woman at his side.

The clip is incomplete. This person zoomed in for comedic effect, which conceals why Amuro does the handshake. He literally takes notice of the woman he’s holding and then extends the other hand. In other words, it is an animator thinking carefully about where bodies are.

For many now-extinct tribes, American expansion literally caused the end of their world. But even when the US “merely” took away the land and killed or assimilated most of the tribe, there is good reason to call those events apocalyptic.

That is an excellent mini-lesson. There is something hubristic about imagining our end as the end of the world, rather than as the end of a culture or a way of life.

I mean, they all fuck, but fucking doesn’t entail hotness. I fuck, but I’m not hot.

A few more “hot people”:

As a D.va player, I’m not comfortable with this costume choice.

Debates about video game cosmetics is at least as old as hats (TF2) or other costumes (for me, first exemplified in the Soul Calibur games).

Dead Like Me is an obvious example, but in a different spirit since the series focuses on what the dead characters do after they die.

Competence is a lot of fun.

I can’t wait to play one of them Alien Nintendos.

Most of what you’re saying is quite in line with what I’m saying. I just want to reply with one bit: