Good point, and to be honest, I did watch the Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer and think, “Wow, that’s a story worth telling,” though I guess, with most games, it’s not a story worth telling, at least to me (or I would think no story is “not worth telling,” generally, in the sense that you can make any story, good, but I…

The “Mad World” commercial was good, but again, that was about the cutscenes, not about the gameplay. I liked it, as a piece of art, but it did not make me want to play the game, or not more than any commercial that showed actual gameplay would have.

Show gameplay footage, man, and people playing them. The problem with cutscenes, in commercials, is, one, people skip past the cutscenes, anyway (whose favorite part of a game is cutscenes, unless you like Final Fantasy or something?), and, two, that doesn’t tell you anything about the gameplay or the actual graphics,…

No, I get it. I don’t expect you to look for my other comments, but someone already pointed this out, and I took his point.

See, you’re being an asshole. I was saying, and I quote, “And this is just another example of Maoism. I hope one day you will stop saying people should shut their mouth when they say something you disagree with. However, I would fight to the death for your right to say it.

But is Kanye being a supremacist, by saying that there could have been an uprising in slaves? Wouldn’t that be an anti-supremacist, or at least someone saying that slaves did have the ability to rise up?

Jesus Ch, more of what I’m talking about.

No, my point is that a person is a person, and they may be enslaved, but this is a very important point: A person, by qualification, is a person, and then they have whatever mental identity they want.

Essentially, I just think we have a culture of complete and reflexive and unthinking, unquestioning hatred toward anything that doesn’t match up exactly right (for example, the college kids saying, quite literally, “Let us call you a racist,” on campus, at Yale, and the professor being like, “My wife released a…

That’s a reasonable proposition, that he has no idea what he’s talking about, in many cases. That said, I think people here have no idea what they’re talking about, in many cases, and victim blaming is not the same as saying, “They have the right to choose otherwise.”

Or, if you say they had no choice, you are being a slave to the concept of optics because it will make you look bad to say, “Yes, someone can leave.” It may be hard, it may not end up working, but they can leave, or at least can try to and die trying. And to say they can’t is to, again, put shackles on them that…

They are victims, of course, but only as cause of circumstance. While obviously it takes titanic effort (and mental will) to get out of that, they can do it, and thus to remain in it, like it or not, is a choice.

Okay, good point. I misread that, and I thought the AV Club was going out of their way to say, “The basic fault line for Kanye that is on our minds is that he should be quiet.” My mistake.

And this is just another example of Maoism. I hope one day you will stop saying people should shut their mouth when they say something you disagree with. However, I would fight to the death for your right to say it.

Uh, not saying they are pussies, you are saying that (in mocking of me, albeit, but still, that’s the attitude you are coming with). I am saying, Kanye clearly comes from a place of empowerment, and that place includes everyone. You, here, are coming from a place of disempowerment and victim politics. Just like this…

You have to buy into a system to live by it. Slaves were obviously put in a very bad predicament (and even to call them “slaves” is to miss the point, they were people who were enslaved by other people), and some of them were heroic enough to leave. You can’t say that the others didn’t have monumental hurdles ahead of…

Uh, even if he said “Naziism is the way to go,” he should have the right to say that. Or do you not support the freedom of speech?

“Kanye West has been doing a very bad job of keeping quiet over the past week or so,” so he should just keep quiet, right? If he says anything against our opinions, he should just keep quiet. I would never call out Michelle Wolf, because I thought she was brave and cutting, in a good way, but God, this wording betrays…

I mean, is anyone going to say, “Yes, this sounds really bad, but it’s true, that how you respond to a situation is your choice?” Unless we have no free will, which is possible, but then nothing is a choice, per se, how we respond to a situation is our choice.

Do you think monolithic though has anything to do with the flame wars about a single fucking Tweet, though? I mean, people are mad enough to fucking roast people over saying a sentence.