All I can say is that it is definitely true that the difficulty of Dark Souls turns off some of the audience who might otherwise be into it. I’m definitely part of that and will probably never buy one of the games despite recognizing that there is a lot I might like about them based solely on the reports I hear about…

Just a heads up, according to Snopes this actually hit FB last December. It was apparently posted by the FB page Urban Leak on December 19th and then reposted more recently during the controversy over HB2 in North Carolina. I think all of your points still stand, but bigoted idiots are going to try to use that fact to…

Well, that’s going to be an interesting lawsuit after Trump loses the election

Interesting. I visited a number of times circa say 2004-2005 with my ex because her best friend was at Kenyon and we went into the Cove on more than a few of those occasions. I guess the school is small enough that they could reasonably guess who is a student and who is a guest because they carded me like any other…

seconded

Just to make it a bit clearer for anyone who has never been to Kenyon, The Cove is or was a bar that is kind of on campus. I believe they leased the space from the college and was sort of official in that sense. The town surrounding Kenyon is incredibly small with just a few thousand residents, and it is basically an…

I’m pretty sure what she was trying to get at is that she doesn’t support the idea of a draft for anyone, regardless of gender. She wants a volunteer military where everyone is a willing, professional soldier

Also because they lost the marriage fight. And a lot of the big LGB advocacy groups have been very intentional about not fighting for trans issues for the past couple decades, as they feared that doing so could derail their campaign for gay marriage. Which has been a big sticking point for trans activists for a long…

That has already started happening. There are already videos circulating the internet of cops and security guards arguing with people about their genders, demanding ID and kicking them out of places

Ok. Educate me. Why would Chinese audiences identify an Ancient One played by an actor of Chinese descent as having a Tibetan origin but not identify Wong played by an actor of Chinese descent as having a Tibetan origin?

Nice long post, you’ve clearly got a lot of thoughts about the issue. Of course you didn’t bother to address my central point/question, which I believe calls into question much of what Cargill is saying. Here it is again:

Which isn’t the real reason they cast Tilda Swinton anyways. If they felt that having a Tibetan character, or recasting a Tibetan character as Chinese would be a problem with the Chinese Government, why the hell is the other Tibetan character in Dr. Strange, Wong, being played by an actor of Chinese descent (Benedict…

Yeah. Here’s why all of these justifications are an incredibly thin layer of extremely obvious bullshit:

The Ancient One isn’t the only major character of Tibetan descent in Dr. Strange comics. The primary supporting character, who has at least cameod in pretty much every story that has ever involved The Sorcerer…

I’m really looking forward to this. Mirror’s Edge was one of my favorite games of the previous generation. Badass female protagonist? Legitimately inventive gameplay? Yes please. The story wasn’t that great, but still an excellent game overall. Plus is was fun watching the proto-GamerGators get all upset that Faith…

Sweet! I’ve been binging on Square-Enix RPGs since the Steam sale a month and a half back. Looking forward to being able to put this on the list.

Well, there go any hopes I had of staying sober tonight

What? I had no idea? Surely that time the undead mortician beat up that sasquatch at the roman coliseum in Vegas was real? It had to have been. It was the same night the millionaire and the IRS official fought Hulk Hogan and that guy who used to be a hair dresser

Well that looks like more fun than the beta

I mean if you aren’t in a rush and have a uterus, you can theoretically get one every few months for the cost of an abortion

Seems to me like this was just another attempt by a misogynist to make women look stupid