So the options are call him out on his bullshit and get stigmatised, or go along with it?

I was thinking about this the other day, and my regret that the first big celebrity conviction for this shit had to be a black man. But the bottom line is that it sucks because sometimes life sucks; nobody ‘did’ this except Cosby, and the idea of denying his victims some justice because reasons is not conceivable or…

If you want shitty news from elsewhere, check out our Windrush scandal in the UK.

Yeah, it’s not a perfect solution by any means, but too many men are getting away with it on that basis. Perhaps a new ‘not guilty/acquitted’ verdict is needed - “not guilty/acquitted but the charge remains admissible”.

I once nearly raped a girlfriend and, although I didn’t go through with it, I still feel shitty nearly forty years later.

The whole sex-scene objection thing at the time was very WTF? Now, there are no capitals big enough...

Quite. Professional ethics != general ethics/morality

Of course it’s ‘wrong’, but it’s up to the courts to make stuff like that inadmissible; it’s not up to defence lawyers to go “well, this might get my client off, and it’s allowed, but I’m not going to do it.”

FWIW, and for those who seem to think that defending the…

You’re missing the point. Money or no money, the lawyer did his job.

In other comic news, interesting interview/article on Frank Miller in the Guardian.

Hate the game, not the player. The way the lawyers portrayed those women is wrong, but it’s up to the law to say “no, you can’t do that.” (which it should imho)

Okay, I’ll give you that... ;)

“Water’s wet.”

My far-too-young-at-the-time daughter was desperate to DM, so we let her.

“I’ve never had a Dungeons & Dragons game get to the point of players killing other players before.”

I’m looking forward to it, but really not expecting a thoughtful movie. That it’s not, afaict, a complete shambles is welcome enough.

Was Jak and Daxter the first modern game to pull that off?

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_South_Korea it sounds like they are a bit behind the times. However, I don’t get the impression that they are particularly rabid with it. Benefit of the doubt, I’ll go with drunken shenanigans and sloppy construction.

Then let us continue to politely disagree about something neither of us can recollect well enough... ;)

Are you sure? I thought the full explanation didn’t come until the 2nd, although I seem to remember something from the first about them working out why HAL was misaligning the comms.