Sure, but those cartoons were also aimed at adults. The Bugs Bunny in Hollywood short, for example, “Hollywood Steps Out”, was explicitly aimed at folks who would recognize the stars it depicted. A lot of the 90s cartoons had a severe disconnect between the writers who wanted to make themselves laugh and the suits who…

True and worth stating, but I also think a big problem is that we tend to reserve these arguments for wealthy celebrities we like who are already receiving plenty of support instead of the millions of faceless folks dilapidating in prisons due to unjust laws or failing out here because of the complete lack of support…

Those Warner Brothers cartoons from the 90s were EXTREMELY odd about referencing celebrities that no person in the target audience should give two damns about, and also doing so with borderline poor taste, or at least, the kind of taste that should have raised Standards and Practices’ collective eyebrows. The…

It’s an absurd amount for an everyday person. But it is only about 10% of Ford’s profit for last year. Not income, but profit. I.e., its excess after bills.

By that measure, an egregious ruling against me would be, oh, $50?

Punitive damages are meant to send a message to similar offenders. You gotta be in the billions…

An actor could have made a phone call or sent a letter back to a critic back in the 50s, bruh. No different than the DM. But Wilson’s response was to respond to the private message in public while referring to Stenberg in the third person and never talking to her like someone who works for a newspaper might want to…

Because the film specifically called it out as awful, privileged, and even insane. No one watches Downfall and thinks it’s about how great Hitler is.

This is a really important point. There are some Emily-Post-ass mofos out here trying to tut-tut someone barely beyond being a teenager for, let’s fucking face it y’all, antics. Tomfoolery. Dare I say, shenanigans.

Should a mature adult do these things, and will/does she regret them? No, and sure.

Is it a good story sti…

They certainly learned to lean on some badass guitar riffs for boss battles, that’s for sure. Damn, Mystic Quest’s music was baller.

That’s a big part of XIV’s appeal, but at the very least there’s camera movement and pretty good character animations and VO there. I can’t imagine reading some of the big boss convos from XIV with only a retro splash of pixels to sustain either the silliness or the portent. Even FF6's final conversation with Kefka…

Not exactly a spoiler, considering it’s the resolution to a Final-Fantasy-ass Final Fantasy story, but you have just described the Endwalker expansion to FF14. Several times over, in fact, if you count the current content patches. And it has lower minimum/recommended requirements than even World of Warcraft.

God that…

It makes sense from the point of view of someone who explicitly does biographies of people who get away with crimes all the time, but only really get condemned for making the Queen look bad.

Nice people vote for terrible consequences, and its not incumbent on people to find others’ niceness more attractive more than their politics unattractive for the sake of fairness. But it’s neat to see a kid so interested in setting their dad up with hot liberal singles.

I won’t argue that there isn’t a bit of…

Firstly, there’s plenty of well-developed literature and critiques of the seemingly ever-present colorism of even culturally-specific animes that explain why it’s not bizarre to see Goku as white-coded, and I’d urge you to seek it out. Simply put, it ain’t just black or liberal Americans who noticed that noted Tokyo…

Hypocrisy isn’t illegal, and Microsoft isn’t the one trying to stop anything. The question is whether Sony’s complaints have enough merit to stop a corporate merger. If they are describing practices in the industry as it has stood for decades, including ones Sony itself uses, then Sony’s arguments could be countered…

If your argument simply and succinctly boils down to not “Not All Men”, you may want to rethink your position, or at least recognize the ease of an unwelcome comparison.

He was also an interesting surprise on Luke Cage as Shades.

But the issue here is that they indeed asked to be put on such a list and the police forgot or declined to. They had the info, and didn’t actually work with it. So in this case, they are “just people” who, at best, didn’t do their jobs.

I think a big part of the problem is the lack of education in the US on parsing narrative and simply identifying with characters (or indeed people) who are unlike yourself. Like, no joke, a huge portion of the population simply does not have the capacity to put themselves in the shoes of any non-cis-het-white-male,…

Datamining was absolutely a thing, considering it’s pretty much part of a lot of programmers’ basic job descriptions and educations (“here, figure out what these guys did and apply it to our purposes”), and video game rom hacking specifically has been around for a very long time. The entirety of the SNES and NES…

The book is titled I’m Glad My Mom Died, and it’s not said with a sense of irony, so I’m not exactly sure what you were expecting.