“C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) isn’t a particularly patriarchal man. He takes his hat off in the elevator, he’s polite to women, and he doesn’t have the callous masculine swagger of his male higher-ups.”

I would be good with all of that except maybe Luke’s surviving. I was fine with his death, and his being a force ghost in ROS worked fine too.

If Rick had been using Apollo, this trick probably wouldn’t have worked.

I do think it’s hard when you have (1) a population saying a word, and they don’t intend any offensive connotation at all and (2) a population hearing the word that takes offense.

What alternatives are being suggested for whitelist / blacklist?

I see what you’re saying. I’m just not sure that particular aspect was of all that much value to the franchise as a whole. Lucas & Disney moving away from an all-white imperial cast allows them to explore a wider variety of themes, and it brings in different issues to explore.

Okay, I gotcha that you’re using hyperbole. It just seems a little bit of an odd complaint; why wouldn’t Disney want to add more nuance to the Empire?

They really aren’t. The First Order gets a bit closer to that, but the empire’s history doesn’t really track as well with the rise of the Nazis as it does with several other examples of imperialism from our own history.

To be fair, though, nothing about Tarkin’s speech suggests Nazis. Evil empire? Absolutely. But that empire could be Rome, France, or Britain if you’re looking for historical parallels. 

They’re really not Nazis. If you look at Palpatine’s rise to power and the manner in which it was run, it more closely parallels Rome or Napoleonic France. 

They probably wait to remove it after they’ve seen the initial sales bump.

I think disgust was probably just poorly named. There’s value to the emotional responses associated with a sense of right and wrong, for instance, and they’re not always a good match for anger or fear.

The old “cable was better” routine is so stupid. Streaming video inherently provides a better user experience.

While I understand leaving out the phone-based games and web-based games, you rely should have mentioned “Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines” (PSP) though admittedly it would probably be ranked as the worst of the list.

That may be how the theme has developed over time, but in the earlier sets it was pretty clear that black magic represented supreme evil. Other colors could have different shades of evil, but black was the straight-up evil color.

If you’re using the trivial definition of the word, sure. But you really shouldn’t. The reason racism matters (and does so much harm) isn’t solely because of bias and prejudice.

when Joel learns that making the vaccine will kill Ellie, he murders the doctor and takes her from the hospital.

In MTG, black is definitely associated with the colloquial “black magic,” which is in turn associated with evil.

There aren’t enough that are *applying* is really the issue I’ve seen. I was addressing the tech sector because that’s what I’m most familiar with, though I previously worked in the video game industry as well.

It’s a mana color, a spell color, and a creature color.