As long as you are saying “These men are evil, you are justified in killing them” you are not really turning any trope on its head, you are just doing a palette swap.

I’ve never wanted people to lose their jobs so badly before just this very moment.

So I finally watched what this whole Pineapple meme is...

Japan is absolutely not more open when it comes to gender and sexual identity. It’s changing gradually, but transgender and gay individuals are ostricized to an arguably greater degree than in the US, and LGBT celebrities - mostly “talent” actors on variety shows - are exclusively played up for laughs as ludicrous,…

It’s cute that you think they actually recognize the existence of trans people.

Tolerance of it in entertainment, is not the same as tolerance in society in general.

The nukes were a necessary evil. If we didn’t have the nukes in time, the US would’ve proceeded with Operation Downfall, a complete invasion of Japan that would’ve cost millions of lives. The nukes have, in total, killed 260000. Nukes are terrifying and horrible weapons, but they did save many Japanese and American…

“they dropped 2 atomic bombs on their citizens, not their military but their citizens.”

Yeah, the US stopped them from getting the supplies they needed to fuel their war machine against their neighbours and the Pacific rim. How terrible. /s

Your Japanese friends and family, did they learn about the atrocities through general education, or was it from outside the system? Because I definitely remember controversies surrounding the Japanese society for History Textbook Reform, has public education changed to make current students more aware of what…

Have you ever heard of Pearl Harbor? Such nice guys they were!

I suggest you look into what the Japanese did to China. If your sympathies still reside with the Japanese, I suggest you see a head doctor.

They are the victims. That is how they teach it in Japan 10000%. Germany has war museums to remember the atrocities. Japan has WW2 “peace” museums. In all the museums (except those in Okinawa. Some GREAT WW2 museums there on par with New Orleans D-Day) in Japan they play it off OVER AND OVER that Japan was the victim.

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He just means he can’t wait until society gets past seeing peoples color and assuming things about them. Like actually treating people based on their actions, and not the color of their skin.

Race exists just as much as Santa does and you know that. As soon as you stop believing in it, it goes away. The same goes for sexism, ageism, and any other discrimination the media tells us exists.

As a historian I feel like it needs to be mentioned that the majority of reviewers only focus on the pointlessness of the war, which is a perspective that is very prevalent in Western Europe where the war indeed did not result in meaningful gains and the the reasons behind it were rather obscure and hard to relate to…

Who’d you like to see us cover more?

The only thing I can think about sony right now, is how crappy their customer service and playstation store are right now. I can’t seem to purchase anything because the system keeps giving errors about the credit card and paypal payments. And I’m not the only one with the problem. Seems to go back to half a decade,…

Was there really a need to post four box art images to get your point across?

I think if photos are going to be promoted on Kotaku they should at least adhere to basic rules of photography including proper exposure and focus.