I think the difference is that while those games are clearly inspired by pokemon, none of those creatures really look like specific Pokemon, which is definitely not true for this game. Most of those ones I’ve seen that are clearly “inspired” by certain Pokemon still seem legally distinct enough to not be a problem but…

My favorite part of this story is that nintendo hasn’t actually said anything. People are getting defensive over armchair analysis. 

Imagine being so insecure about your own skin color that something like this sets you off.  Just sad really

Gray suits you better.

Conservatism is a sort of political expression of nostalgia. It makes sense for many as you either have the urge to change the world to something new or something you remember. 

Reminds me of yesterday, with the news that Sports Illustrated is laying off its entire staff, when I saw people on Twitter insisting it’s because the swimsuit issue started including trans and plus-sized models. It couldn’t be that print is dying in general, or anything, right?

That reminds me of what still might be the best tweet ever, when someone said, “Exactly what machine did you think they were raging against?” 

One thing I wonder about the people who are suddenly outraged about this after thinking Green Day was on their side: why couldn’t they have continued to be blissfully ignorant of the song’s message against their beliefs? If they were clueless enough to miss the song’s message when it was first released, why the sudden…

So I guess expressing political stances in song lyrics is one more thing people shouldn’t try in a small town?

That’s because Dave knows how to laugh at himself, whereas Jo went onstage and whined about how everyone should be required to laugh at themselves except him.

Speaking of marshmallows, he melted the second the heat was on then started tossing his writers into the fire. 

I think there’s a misconception that people - including Taylor Swift - didn’t laugh because his jokes were offensive. People didn’t laugh because they weren’t funny.

“Keller acknowledges a sweeping change like this can have huge ramifications the team may not even realize until it happens”

Please, please spend your money on this game to prove me wrong. I want that more than anything else.

Can liberal based humor be bad? Of course because everything can be bad. But right wing comedy is a special kind of bad specifically because it’s not really about being funny. What’s “funny” is not the content of a racist, but rather that it’s going to upset liberals “because” you made that racist joke.   And that’s…

To paraphrase Richard Spencer: “We expect our opponents to preserve freedom of speech, but we have no obligation to support it once we take power.”

Could be that there is some tipping point where being capable of more nuanced satire means you have too many cerebral creases to remain a hard right nutcase. 

I played the Alex Jones game so you don’t have to. AMA.

skeffles, paraphrased, “bike riders need to stay off the road.”

Decades of putting bicycle lanes in the “door zone” doesn’t help. Better bicycle infrastructure separates bikes from cars to mutual benefit. Also I have seen far too many social media posts about deliberately dooring cyclists to believe these are all accidents.