That misunderstanding isn’t your fault. Both live episodes featured Hamm, but the Amos n Andy parody sketch was far more memorable. The racist Hamm-arm commercial, as you’ve already noted, appeared in one version of the second live episode. The second live episode also didn’t get as many viewers (or as high the…

My mistake: I saw Jon Hamm and misread the rest. We’re talking about two different episodes here; I’m referring to the Live episode where Hamm was in blackface (and Tracy Morgan’s character nearly strangles him).

...and it’s acknowledged specifically for how racist it is?

However, if you do have a grievance that’s worth suing the company over (rather than just the individual employee), you should absolutely tell HR. Give them the chance to do right. If they do a shitty job handling the complaint, as clearly was the case here, then you have evidence that the company itself should be…

Not a movie, and hard as hell, but this was a very good Clarke adaptation overall:

Remember that the chronicoms aren’t in this to simply change the timeline. They’re making sure no one will be able to oppose their eventual invasion.

I actually disagree with that. There are definitely games that I’ve had enormous trouble enjoying after only a couple hours of play, just as there are books and movies I’ve given up on.

“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?

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.