The word “phobia” actually refers to strong irrational fear and/or aversion. You can have a phobia without necessarily being afraid. “Irrational” is the most important word there.

phobia as in aversion too. Not necessarily afraid of. Hydrophobic material isn’t afraid of water. 

It’s not “Joker can’t be gay” that made the game homophobic, it was all the homophobia that made it (and the couple previous entries) homophobic.

I did say “ Women’s rights issues, racism and homophobia,”—but yes, totally agree.

Phobia is not just “fear” in the traditional sense. Phobias are extreme and irrational aversions to something that are disproportionate to any actual threat the thing in question could pose.

One thing to realize that Persona 3-5 has you as a silent protagonist in the “They’re supposed to be a mirror for you” sort of way. It’s not like the character isn’t gay because the character isn’t anything. You as the player are the one deciding how they are for most things, so with that freedom, the bottleneck on…

So then you just didn’t read the article at all, huh?

Well the Democratic party is not a left leaning organization, it’s a center right one so being left of them isn’t actually difficult outside of the US but yeah socially Japan is stuck way back in the past as far as any kind of minority rights

Glad to see this coming about. Now, I”m saying this as a first generation Japanese-American immigrant, who came to America as a young age but goes to Japan for work fairly regularly.

This. I thought that immediately once I heard the statement:

How much is an EV expected to earn a dealership in service over its life compared to its ICE counterpart.  I’d think dealerships would steer customers towards the cars that would bring them in more money over the long term.

I wonder how the rural-vs-urban split affects this.

“30 percent of dealers would not offer an EV even if one was available”

One of life’s greatest mysteries is how little car salespeople know about the products they sell.

No, they never do, and they’re always disruptive to their host cities for months surrounding the actual date - that includes Albert Park, Baku, and Jeddah, and even Miami and Villeneuve interrupt some aspect of publicly used areas. But it’s fine if they get the opportunity to bring up the problem which then shines a…

You don’t know much about Vegas, only what the media shows you. Many people live there because of the cost of living (no state income tax being a big benefit) and many other reasons that have zero to do with the hospitality industry.

When David Foxx reached out to Jalopnik, he was on his 10th day of a 19-day vacation

A three-hour commute, for whatever amount of time that it takes additional to my standard commute I would insist on being paid for. That is unreasonable to ask them to sit in their cars for 3 hours and likely another 3 at the end of their shift.

You’d think...

I once bugged an exploit where if you hit an object that was suppose to damage you and slow you down at a specific angle and in a specific state - it wouldn’t only NOT hurt you, it would give you temporary invincibility AND high speed...

Spent, literally, over an hour nailing down the precise steps to…

Jesus Christ, it’s 2023 and people *still* think things are QA’s fault...