My experience with it was that the difficulty spikes came only from side missions that were drastically easier when you came back to them later with better powers and weapons. There’s maybe something to be said about game design and not putting those crazy hard missions too early in the game for the player to…

A modicum of competition with the stated goal of giving more money to developers per sale no less.

Does Epic have any actual exclusives, or just timed ones? (apart from games they actually make, of course).

🚨 WEE-WOO WEE-WOOO 🚨

(Star Trek voice) “Captain, I’m getting extremely high readings on the Hot Take monitor...”

I’ll be furious if the 70s isn’t a Norman Lear style no-holds barred political sendup of the Carter and Nixon administrations

People with too much time on their hands...

No I wouldn’t. Let’s not pretend you know me. I even said in another post that if a white person did a Black Panther cosplay, I would think it’s a bit funny but as long as the costume is good, who cares what color the person is under the costume and mask?

Of course it’s okay, just don’t change your skin tone.

That's not a thing that happens in the cosplay community? I mean it happens in Hollywood movies when famous characters are cast as white actors, but those are OFFICIAL DEPICTIONS. It's not even slightly the same thing.

I’d argue that it isn’t because the person is just dressing as the character. It’d be like saying that a non-Japanese person of color dressing up as Haruhi for cosplay purposes without changing their skin color is also practicing cultural erasure. They aren’t erasing the culture.

I’vebeen watching this go down for a while and I’m so torn on the subject. Had she used her own skin and darkened it, it would definitely be black face. As a female making an entire suit it gets more weird. Should she intentionally paint him “wrong” to match herself? I don’t think so. But to talk with other black…

Except they aren’t. They’re own personal costume doesn’t negate people of other color dressing up as the same character.

Not at all. Cosplay is about the COSTUME. That’s why when we see a black Sailor Moon, it’s a non-issue. It’s about the costume.I would laugh my ass off if I saw a white Black Panther but if the costume was on point, who cares if it’s a white guy or any other ethnicity under the mask?

It’s whitewashing if they’re taking an opportunity for a high-profile role from a person of color (turning a role that either canonically—either in actual history or as indicated in fiction—was PoC into a white person). I’d argue you can’t whitewash cosplay since they’re not being used in actual roles.

Except the only people saying that are people who are trying to be contrarions like yourself. "can't do this cuz now it's this". Piss off. 

This IS fantastic. And should be the end of discussion for anyone with a modicum of good faith in this discussion. Literally all she had to do was not darken the skin of the suit. Accuracy of depiction is not worth playing around in this gray area. 

This really isnt a hard discussion.. It starts and ends right here.

“Livanart herself says in this Facebook video that she spoke with “some black people” while making the suit, heard their concerns then went and did it anyway”

This means she knew it was problematic and did it anyway. Any convo after that is irrelevant.…

She’s still using race as a costume. There are plenty of ways she could’ve done Pyke that didn’t involve race facing.

This is a bit more nuanced, as I don’t think the intent was to cosplay race so much as cosplay the character, but I fully get that this is not precisely a black and white situation (I swear, no pun intended).

The core problem is this: It doesn’t matter how detailed, how much care she took, or anything else: Livanart is still treating race as a costume. Race is not an accessory or costume that can simply be taken off at the end of the day.