I mean, we’re not talking about creating characters and then gender-swapping them. We’re talking about a preproduction process where the writers might say something like “alright, and then Nate and Sam go into this old man’s house” and then someone says “what if it’s a woman?” and everyone’s like “hey yeah.” Maybe…

Diversity is a good thing. Looking at every character and seeing if they should be female seems complete crazy to me. It’s rare that the gender matters at all in games (I mean storywise, not representation),so how do you have that conversation?

lol, wow. So you do exist here... Interesting. Sad, but interesting.

I too hate when people of all stripes are treated with dignity and respect. To fight against it, we must harass harder! Send more death threats! Blow every imagined slight out of all proportion! Our opinions on game translations may be meaningless and stupid but by God we will be heard, no matter how many careers we…

Ah yes 4Chan users, the real victims!

kind of a #notallmen argument you’ve got there.

Japan has not done shit to acknowledge these women. They will never erect any sort of monument towards them. Japanese students are largely not taught about things such as comfort women, the Rape of Nanking, etc. It’s erased from a lot of Japanese history, instead of acknowledging it and learning from it, so that it…

For those who are interested, this is an animated short made from a former ‘comfort woman’s own oral testimony recording, which is an account of her experiences at a military base in Indonesia during the Pacific War. It’s important to keep in mind here that, as we see in her story, Koreans were also complicit in the…

Shameful period in history. Shinzo Abe has expressed ‘regret’ but not a full apology. Disgusting.

In addition to the points made by Vulcans and Provost, I'll also point out that Asian-Americans are, in fact, tax paying citizens, and so using tax funds to pay for something important to their communities isn't really misplaced. This is a part of American history because they are part of America.

It’s history. Just because it didn’t happen here doesn’t mean we shouldn’t educate ourselves or acknowledge the victims. Japan has a long history of denying this even happened. Only recently, if you notice the Jez links on this article, have they acknowledged it. But politicians still claim it was ‘necessary.’ It’d be…

Your comment is confusing and incorrect.

They didn't call it the Rape of Nanjing for nothing. Blech.

I am glad this is getting acknowledged. The Japanese military establishment during World War II did some pretty awful things. Sometimes it seems like everyone knows about the Holocaust but no one knows about what happened Nanking and Korea and other places that the Japanese invaded. They were also pretty horrible to…

Many of the Comfort women were actually children-

Yes. Colorblind casting would have been a good idea, if this concept was a must-have. It’s not exactly a documentary...

Man, men with domestic violence convictions just can’t get a fair shake in the dating world. Don’t those bitches understand his ex was crazy?

This weekend an unvaccinated six year old boy was the first person to die of diptheria in 28 years in Spain. His parents rejected getting him vaccinated and now he’s dead. A vaccinated child is much better then a dead one.

I'm fine with the arrangement this couple has worked out, whatever works for you. But I'm guessing a lot of the men she sleeps with don't have similar arrangements with their wives, and their wives would be devastated by this. I can't imagine my partner sleeping with someone else because I had cancer, or depression,…

I was an exchange student near Hiroshima in the late '90s. I wound up going to the Atomic Bomb Museum with a friend of mine who was a half-Korean English teacher in the next town over to mine. She had to turn around and leave about halfway through the museum because she was so furious. They had a display about the…