DA:I's facial hair on PS3 was amazing. At least they figured out how to make people not shiny this time around

And you could make Defenders a very interesting show, because then Danny wouldn't experience racism in the same way that Luke does, for example (and if you add Colleen, Misty, Claire and Jessica to it, you can also explore how gender and race interact).

Yeah, if they had any really prominent Asian-American character, this wouldn't go down so badly. As it stands, you have two properties that cannot, entirely, escape their origins and the implications of Asians as mystical martial artists, and not that many Asian characters to counteract that.

Or the opposite way - an Asian dude who has to deal with the fact that, after arriving to America, everybody expects him to act like an Asian stereotype with the added wrinkle that he has mystical martial arts powers, so on one level he actually is one.

A REVUE GAME I ACTUALLY OWN, sweet.

You are indeed right. Thanks!

IME, the number of engaged users is dwarfed by the number of casual readers. See what happened to The Dissolve - it was in depth and it had an engaged community and it failed.

But we're not customers - we're product. And we're bad product. I'd bet casual readers don't tend to have AdBlock like regular commenters do, for example.

It is, yes, after the moment where he's about to wipe her memories and there, she reclaims her agency and chooses her own damn fate.

Clara's ending was great! It's the natural endpoint to her arc (actually becoming the Doctor).

While I agree with you in general terms, I think Clara's departure was by far the most well-done so far in the show.

I still think it's pure undiluted genre and very earnest and willing to do weird things, though.

But the Mages quest is also inventively annoying. Mixed bag, really. It's the main reason I don't replay the game.

Flower gets me dizzy but it's a very beautiful, calming game. I second the rec for Journey if you haven't played it yet.

You're taking a neoliberal approach by denying intrinsic inequalities that make 'appreciate' a non-neutral action. You can't deny that capitalism influences how culture is 'shared' and 'mixed' and 'blended'. When there's a mainstream culture and a minority one, denying the influence of power differentials is playing…

…. Well, yeah, no. It's not a thing you can 'steal' like you steal a car. But wouldn't you agree that it's fucked up and that white artists should be wary of it?

Wait, you're saying that, for example, Native American artists are as widely distributed and well-known as the white artists that use elements of their culture?

Well, yeah. Cultural appropiation means that you can't dissociate the cultural 'exchange' from its circumstances.

I'm going to HOPE this actually retails in my country (or at least my continent) at all.

That doesn't erase the inequality, though. When somebody from a dominant culture takes cultural elements from a less powerful culture and makes art with it… there's a power differential there that's relevant. You cannot say 'oh it's art power doesn't exist here!'. It does.