No, Cranky is the original DK. The current DK is DK Jr.’s son.

If westerners release a creative work in Asia, the people there still have the right to criticize it. The same applies in reverse.

Oh yeah. While they weren’t above using revenge tropes (like the horse getting revenge on Bluto for his mistreatment), they seemed to have a largely progressive attitude that carried over to their Betty Boop and Superman cartoons. Superman, especially you could tell when Famous Studios took over production; the…

I’ve only see the Fleischer Studios ones. Some of those episodes were actually very progressive for their day. “Never Kick A Woman” stands out in particular.

I always saw Rosalina as matronly. Her dress obscures the waist and hips. She is also a mother figure for the lumas. As part of the large weight class in Mario Kart 8, she isn’t considered petite.

It’s a really old gag involving sailors at sea a long time going for the first bit of skirt they see. Yes, very sexist by today’s standards but the cartoon came out in 1932, and the comic strip (by E.C.Segar) was introduced in 1919 (Popeye was introduced in 1929).

Developers are going to be challenged by the media to justify their decisions. That is the nature of releasing a game to the public. Good developers don’t want empty praise. They want feedback so that they can improve their craft.

I didn’t realize equal representation of women was “euro-centric.” 

You’ll be ok, professor.

“We knew that players know Pauline so we of course wanted to make her the mayor of New Donk City.”

But will she finally be rescued? Rescued from loneliness by a Princess?

Unless you are a major threat to society or a legitimate flight risk, you should not be sitting in jail before your trial. Period. The system we have now just lets the rich skip right on back to their lives while poor people sit in jail for the same crime. Combined with the fact that you can’t afford a lawyer and the…

This needs out of the greys. So true. For many people their choice boils down to:

The ability to “make bail” has an enormous, and at times all-encompassing impact on indigent people’s ability to contest the case against them at trial, and pretrial motions such as a motion to suppress an unlawful search, etc.

His spokesman saying “He has his power back” makes it depressingly clear what this has always been about.

The last Presidential election wasn’t proof of that for you? How many idiots kept saying Trump was a successful businessman because he played one on TV.

Yep. To many, the political/sociological worldview is now more important than the facts of the case.

Having spent countless hours playing every main Mario game that’s ever been made, I think that something like this is completely in character for the series. Every Mario game has random secrets and hidden blocks or items that you would never know are there before you actually discover them because they have nothing to…

There are actually some of us who jump off most ledges often to find hidden stuff. MARIO has been doing this since the first game. It’s nice to see actual rewards for advanced exploration.

When any and all logic says you’d get punished for doing that, why would I ever even consider doing it?