This is just one example, obviously, but San Andreas sold even more copies than Vice City, so clearly, choosing to portray a black protagonist didn’t hurt that franchise.

The question isn’t whether white males choose white male characters by default. It’s whether they would be less likely to play a game that didn’t give them the option to play as a white male. Those are two very different things and providing evidence that one may be somewhat true doesn’t prove the other at all. Gaming…

That’s not a citation. That’s still a baseless assumption.

who want to play as white, cisgender men

Considering that the O.K.-as-white-supremacy-gesture is largely an urban legend started by 4-chan to mess with people

I don’t know about the Roma slur though.

I’d say they won the moment that actual white supremacists started using it.

I sure hope not. I wasn’t sure at first, but her shoutout to, “Backyard Band, E.U., Suga Bear, and the whole DMV” definitely gave it away that it was staged.

Totally understandable on both accounts. 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is my second least favorite of the nominees, so we’re basically on the same page. I put it slightly ahead of Mank because I think it was at least successful at what it was trying to do. It’s a crowd-pleasing, soft focus take on history, but it’s well-made and entertaining. I’m not really…

Nomadland is definitely the best of the bunch in my opinion, which is good since it’s very likely to be the winner. I hate to say it, but the worst is Mank. I haven’t really loved a Fincher film since The Social Network, but at least Gone Girl and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were stylish and compelling. Mank feels…

That’s always been my take on it too. Stolen in the sense that the Electoral College dictating the outcome rather than the popular vote is ludicrous, but not stolen in terms of the actual count.

I’m not really seeing the logical thread. I get the first part about Democrats rolling over while Republicans play to win. But how does Democrats still questioning the legitimacy of the 2000 election 20 years later make Republican arguments that the 2020 election was rigged less viable? If anything, wouldn’t it…

I’d watch it.

he facts of the recount likely would have swung in his favor

In what way does taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court constitute “letting” Bush win? Should he have appealed to the Supremer Court? 

apologizing just to appease internet randos like us would be performative at best.

Ellis appears to be fine with Wilson liking tweets that paint Ellis as a bad person

Why would Wilson responding to the apology be a requirement? Just send a quick DM saying, “Hey. I saw you mentioned our conversation about your bisexuality in an interview. I never realized it bothered you at the time, but apparently it really stuck with you. It was a shitty thing for me to say and I’m really sorry.”…