I honestly hate these takes. “see how nice it sounds when he has a REAL Italian accent like in the video games!” when the video games accent was racist as fuck and really shouldn’t be getting a pass at this point.

We’ve heard literally:
“what is this place?” and “Mushroom Kingdom here we come.”

That’s 9 words out of a…

If getting off to hot girls older than you while under 18 makes the women pedos than I turned a lot of women in to pedos in the late 90s....oops.

So....a solution? Sounds like you don’t want them to explore these cultural identifiers and the explorer-genre tropes. Should half the cast be fired and people you find “approved” be playing this game?

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

“Direct dialogue between management and employees” is just an insane thing to say. No employer that size has the time to specifically and individually negotiate in good faith with every individual employee, and every employee doesn’t have the time or resources or experience or leverage to negotiate on their own…

Did you seriously feel a need to write this article? Why? Whether a small development studio is all male or all female or what-have-you does not matter. Your statement of, “So, presumably, the founder had met at least a couple of women who were skilled enough to work at one of the highest-profile video game companies…

I’ve watched the special multiple times and I’m not hearing where the offense is coming from. Is it because he claimed to be team TERF? How is that harmful to you or anyone else? You disagree with him, he disagrees with you. We’re entering a territory of sterilization. Actually, he kind of called out what would…

It just seems so weird that they felt they needed to use a real person but in an inaccurate way. You can’t claim authenticity when you take a real person and then change their story because it doesn’t suit your purpose.

I’m not a lawyer, and I agree that this will probably not go anywhere, but I don’t think your examples are particularly relevant to this case. While it would be easy to believe that Nona Gaprindashvili never faced men in chess, no reasonable person would believe that Abraham Lincoln hunted vampires or that Hitler had…

Glad of it - not going to lie, I hope for the failure to be as big and spectacular as possible. I realize cloud gaming has found niches on some other platforms, but I still feel like Cloud Gaming is a direct ticket to a more tightly controlled content market, another ‘walled garden’ of tech, that will ultimately be…

racist shitheads like this make me ashamed to be white.

Look...Ian...I mean this in the nicest way possible, and I say this as a fellow progressive who has tried to get people to vote for Bernie twice in a row, and this isn’t directed at you specifically but at the group you are currently representing with this article...but please, shut the fuck up.

Ian really sounds like a Kremlin agent in this article.

Just Trump? Half the people in office need to be replaced. McConnel is a fucking piece of shit. The people who go along with him are pieces of shit. The people LEADING the democratic party are pieces of shit who should be in jail.

Yeah.. I understand this isn’t as progressive as many on the left would prefer, but to say it’s “very little substance” is just a gross misuse of that phrase — it’s incredibly substantial, with concrete policy goals and figures.

All this commentary about not being the other guy is a bit off.

People working with their friends seems like how a lot of good stuff gets made. Replacing that dynamic with a casting bureaucracy might sacrifice quality. Do you prefer the Monkees or the Beatles?

Jenny Slate was great in the role. I look forward to seeing her replacement though, as all of the voice acting on this show is amazing.

That’s fine and I understand especially if the character in question if a hundred percent black but does being black have to supersede the half Jewish part? Jenny is Jewish. What if the character is half Asian or half Hispanic and black? What side should represent that character if you can’t find somebody that fits…

Why do you keep saying “allegedly?” Sure, he could be wrongfully convicted, but technically you can put “allegedly” in front of anything and it wouldn’t be wrong. You could say “this article was allegedly written by Matt Novak,” or “Mitch McConnell is allegedly a spineless sycophant who looks like a turtle” or…