Wow this is racist. People calling out Mercy about cultural appropriation while Lifeweaver gets a free pass because he’s Thai?

I am Chinese and I am absolutely fine with Mercy in a dress typically worn for the lunar new year. Wear a Chinese dress, make mooncakes for your coworkers for the autumn festival, whatever your skin color or blood line, as long as they are done tastefully and in appreciation for the cultural occasion you choose to…

I think part of the problem with the people complaining about this is either;

1. As you stated they are white knights championing a cause that isn’t theirs and lacking the perspective to do so.

2. People who take the game out of context and treat these characters like they are their own persons. I think we would be…

You’re opinion and voice as a Chinese-American will be drowned out by idiots with nothing better to do then attempt to complain on your behalf, instead of actually asking you what you think on the matter. I’m sure there are Chinese-Americans that aren’t cool with this, but they too will be drowned out by idiots…

At this point, these criticisms are just noise. No matter what you do, you’re going to offend someone. If the skins had been kept culturally matched with characters, people would be bitching about characters being pigeonholed with their nationality.

This is such a terminally online take. The notion of bottling up each individual culture such that everyone stays in their respective lanes and culture can only be expressed or shared if someone has the exact same skin tone and nation-state lineage as you is so fucking backwards.

If people have issues with the…

I posted this elsewhere, but as a Chinese American I’m glad Mercy can wear this. I used to play Overwatch and mained Phara, Roadhog & Symmetra. I didn’t like Mei’s toolkit so I didn’t play her. But as Chinese I loved having Chinese skins available to my other characters so I could see myself represented in how I…

Exactly, I posted similar - I’m Chinese and I like to see the character I’m playing reflect that.  I don’t like Mei’s toolkit so I’m not going to just play her in order to reflect my ethnicity.  So I enjoy it when the characters I DO like playing can reflect my identity.

Have any of these people stopped to consider that maybe it’s not the character but the player that is wearing it? I don’t play Overwatch anymore but as a Chinese American I liked having all my characters (Pharah, Roadhog & Symmetra) wearing Chinese garb because I am in fact Chinese.  Should I only have to play Mei…

Calling this “cultural appropriation” seems like a massive stretch to me, and I’m liberal as all hell. You might as well say any white person cosplaying a character from Naruto, Demon Slayer, and Jujutsu Kaisen is guilty of cultural appropriation. Doesn’t that sound utterly stupid?

My favorite Ashe skin is Year of the Tiger’s Huntress because she has black hair just like me.

I find it fascinating that progressive people in favour of representing other people’s cultures find it offensive when the “wrong” character attempts to showcase said culture.

One incident, huh?

where there’s one incident out of a nation of over 300 million citizens and ohmigosh! this abomination has to be stamped out right now because ONE incident is too much.

I like that you think speed control is fascist. That’s cute.

I’ll be honest- I’ve never owned a car with more than 200 hp and I have never found myself thinking, “this situation could only be improved with more power...”

I find about 200hp to be the perfect happy medium. 250 if the car is especially sporting.

So much this...but there are lots of people who apply the term ‘communism’, ‘socialism’, or ‘fascism’ to mean “anything that I don’t like...and I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it...and don’t tell me to take a political science course!”

holy shit, a 1969 Dodge Charger fan is an annoying 60-year-old whiner who blames everything he doesn’t like on the namby-pamby east coast liberal elite? now i’ve seen everything

To be fair to Slate, the gist of the article was that there really is no need for cars that can go 3-4 times the speed limit. And they’ve got a point. The same way we don’t need giant truuuuuuuuks to drop the kids off at school, the same way we don’t need hockey mom Expeditions to get the groceries, we don’t need…