You don’t need to tell me what my shtick is thank you. 

Only when there’s a full moon........

And every time someone tries to make leaders acknowledge the wrongs that were perpetrated, politicians start using strawmen, saying shit like “oh, white men are supposed to feel ashamed all the time” or “the left is knee-deep into self-loathing”.

Activision ain’t going anywhere. The company is worth too much money. They will implement some changes, accept a fine that to you and me will seem huge but will be a drop in the ocean to them. Give it a year max and their stock will be worth more than it was before all this stuff kicked off. Capitalism baby!.

That may be true, but no more so than any grand strategy game set in the early 20th Century could appeal to racists by letting them create their own Thousand Year Reich. Scum/creeps are going to find ways to get their scum/creep on no matter what.

While it remains to be seen if Paradox can handle gracefully the topic of historical slavery, I like the logic behind their decision. One of the best ways to educate people on historical social issues is to allow them to experience it in some way, just factually and without bias, and give them the chance to see the…

It did screw up the link, for the record, so thanks for the edit.

I’ll chime in. As a mixed black man I am honestly ok w/ slavery being in a game if it’s done tastefully. We already have games where we kill the soldiers plenty of other nations people for fun. It’s a slippery slope w/ the way the world is heading but, I for one think we need more heavy visuals of the hardships of our…

“The first reason is that as I mentioned before, it was an important political issue of the day and was a major catalyst for several significant conflicts, most notably the American Civil War which would be bizarrely contextless if slavery did not play a significant role in the game.”

Gee, I wish I had the income to take “some time off” after only five years at a job.

I mean, it’s a politically charged issue in the contemporary world in that in the US specifically there seems to be a heck of a lot of denialism still. And in that context it seems like the risk would be that if they make you roleplay as a ruler you’d end up defending the institution actively in some scenarios.

It’s funny because this is a dumb comparison even if the answer is no, which is isn’t.  Atheism is a religion because it purports to know something unknowable, that there specifically are NOT any gods or anything.  If you wanna try catching people in dumb logical traps with false comparisons in the future, I’d…

Decided she no longer preferred the P.

Hmm, two ways to take that. First one: A is Asexual, not Ally. That’s the hopeful one, that you thought it was Ally and rightly though that didn’t count.

Awesome, great!

Also: from a Pierson to a Wierson? 

But I don’t think that’s a fair criticism as they are reassessing their views on Minaj based on her recent behaviour. For me, that is what this article is truly about, re-examining behavior that was considered to represent something before and now considering if it was actually signal of something else.

You are thinking like a rational person who recognizes that some jobs are dangerous.

Well yeah, he was wrong to blame SHIELD generally, and as an independent adult it was absolutely her choice.  But him not dealing all that rationally with his grief in What If? under worse circumstances was entirely consistent with him not dealing all that well with it in the MCU proper.

“And the Yellowjacket flips out because his daughter died doing what she signed up for?... eh, OK, but I mean, what did he think could possibly happen?”

The exact thing that he went to great lengths to prevent in the MCU before finally relenting.  It makes perfect sense that he went off after losing Hope just as he…

What If...? is kind of an interesting exercise in storytelling. It is by far the thing Marvel has produced that is completely and absolutely dependent on the viewers’ foreknowledge of the original movies to be narratively effective.  Because of that, none of the normal rules of storytelling apply and, in a vacuum, I…