I remember playing Texas high school games where the coaches and parents were bloody furious at the officials. But in hindsight, most of those guys are probably doing the job for free or practically free, on their own time, without the help of spotters in the booth or replays. All those successful and correct…

It’s a sportsmanship thing - with the QB instantly taking a knee, there’s a potential for serious injury if the defense goes full speed.

I BOTH REQUEST AND DEMAND MORE COVERAGE OF PERVY JAPANESE VISUAL NOVELS

It’s a unitard. Gymnasts, figure skaters, and motion capture artists wear them all the time. They’re made of nylon, polyester, and/or spandex..

Over on Android Police we often have to wait a week or two for a limited amount of review devices, or sometimes just hope one of our writers was planning on buying one anyway (we’ve had similar issues with manufacturers de-prioritizing us for PR after less-than-positive coverage). We take pretty much the same…

On the plus side: the inevitable Switch emulators in 5 or 6 years will now be playable without any weird extras or odd visual formatting.

I had no idea there was a racist version of that rhyme before that airplane incident with the attendant (who also didn’t know). And I grew up in Atlanta.

Also: documents, a verb, not document’s, a possessive noun. The movie documents the record.

Just sit your controller down. Right over there.

I can understand your fatigue, but we’re a few weeks away from an election in which an openly racist presidential candidate has a small but very real chance of winning. It’s a worthy point of discussion even when we’re talking about race in video games.

Almost every powerful person in the history of our country holds those terrible ideals. It’s much, much bigger than Trump.

Interesting that the game is applauded for a factual and historical representation of racism... but that the player’s only agency to fight that racism is violence, and criminal violence at that. Clay is, I’m assuming, not someone that any rational person would choose to be in real life.

The new Razer Blade Pro is also the first system to benefit from Razer’s new low-profile mechanical keyboard switches. Yes, this slender thing has a mechanical keyboard.

I was talking about the legality of airing copyrighted logos on products as an incidental part of a TV show or movie. I suppose that the sneakers fall into the category of “fanart,” which is copyright violation in the most technical sense, but which most rights holders ignore for small-time artists.

As I understand it, there’s no law that says you can’t use any product you want on television, with identifying logos intact. But unless you have some kind of sponsorship in place, you’re doing it for free... which might cause conflict with the people who ARE sponsoring you. That’s why the Olympic Committee goes…

Interesting. So would you say that the action/sci-fi stuff, the “otaku” series, are the primary ones that get international distribution? Is stuff like DBZ and Cowboy Bebop much less popular in Japan, relative to the larger in-country anime market?

A quick search on the fan wiki says that the character is 12 at the start of the series, and that the plant-tentacle monster thing shows up in episode 4 of the first season.

See, I knew something like this would be brought up. The point of my comment, and the article as a whole, is that some of the things that are taken for granted or considered normal in anime are keeping it from getting a wider audience. Not just with women in general, but with international viewers like me.

As a more conventional sci-fi fan who only occasionally dips a toe into anime, I have to say that I find the sexualization of children incredibly off-putting. I watch something like Sword Art Online, which I’m told is fairly casual and mainstream as anime goes, and a few episodes in a 12 or 13-year-old girl gets…

That Samsung team is really... blowing up.