That...doesn’t automatically nullify any criticisms. :-/

The only thing I would point out here is that 1) most people aren’t like this chick, and 2) even if they were, most aren’t Playmate of the year (most of us aren’t going to gyms with famous/semi-famous people), so were they to do something like this, it would be to the 20 people who follow them on Snapchat.

Yep. The gym is a scary enough place to set foot into when you’re uncomfortable with your weight. Add this to it, and lots of people will be scared away. The gym itself is intimidating, let alone worrying about whether you’re going to be judged, photographed, and displayed to the whole world while in the locker room.…

I always reassure myself by thinking “No one is even paying attention to you. No one cares what you look like.” Then I see something like this.

This woman is the exact embodiment of most of my nightmares since about 8th grade.

This woman just kept A LOT of women who were insecure about their bodies from setting foot in a gym. She has been valued for her looks for so long, she probably has no idea that she made real someone’s worst nightmare. Exercising in public when you have body image issues is hard enough. Thanks for making it so much…

One group was a victim of genocide and have basically no media representation. Pirate skins for another group don’t have the same cultural effect. The dynamics are different.

Nah she’s 100% Egyptian. That skin just follows a trend of poor taste. They look cool, but it’s kind of messed up to put a brown character in the garb of a brown demographic she doesn’t belong too.

hey man she was just excited about video games, we’ve all been there

“I agree with this. Just because there is a tonal difference does not mean John Williams didn’t do a good job. This was not a movie where a Duel of the Fates would have fit. If you played something like that over the Rey-Klyo Ren duel, it would have overwhelmed the subtler moments in that fight- it would just have…

“Nitpicky? Perhaps, but I love my “swelling strings while Luke looks at setting suns” moments, and this movie had none. John Williams has failed me.”

I agree with this. Just because there is a tonal difference does not mean John Williams didn’t do a good job. This was not a movie where a Duel of the Fates would have fit. If you played something like that over the Rey-Klyo Ren duel, it would have overwhelmed the subtler moments in that fight- it would just have been…

This is not the first complaint I’ve heard about the score. I don’t really share the sentiment, but I understand the feelings of people for whom this was not “the score you were looking for”. I enjoyed it, I thought it was lyrical and less obtrusive; but I also felt like this film didn’t need to hit me over the head…

Totally spoilerific:



The score absolutely nailed it as far as I’m concerned. I got choked up all 3 times Rey Force-nabs the lightsaber and we hear that theme pick up.

I loved the new score. It was precisely as emphatic as Star Wars. Rey’s Theme is as wonderful an illustration of her character as The Force Theme is of Luke’s. There was no Imperial March analogue because there was no Imperial March in Star Wars (it debuted in TESB).

You do understand that fiction has an important role in helping people empathize with and understand unfamiliar people and social settings, right?

Like, this game is not going to save any sex workers. But it will do something useful if it can help a few gamers see them as a little more fully human and complex.

I thought it seemed faithful to his condition at that point of the game. Perhaps there might be a character ark of some sort that is used to develop him. I hear a lot of times a well written character changes over the course of the story. I’m guessing thats what would happen considering that they will probably follow…

Suffering from poisoning probably won’t make you look very beautiful, no.

If you’re pissing people off with your journalism, then you’re doing your job. Ruffling feathers, even if you’re entertainment reporters, is par for the course. Don’t stop doing it just because a couple publishers are a wee bit on the childish side of things.

This is a fantastic article on the complex relationship that exists between the developers of art and the people whose job is to review that art. Well written, well stated, A++++ would Kotaku again.