It’s been said a million times, but videogames are better able to get under peoples’ skin and break through their defensive layers because they get you to not just empathize with the characters but sympathize with them. Sympathy is easy, because you’re directly relating to another person’s experiences using youre own.…

The only difference is that Reagan understood that undocumented immigrants were a defacto slave population whose exploitation profited corporate America. Trump is just so racist he’s willing to put hate ahead of the bottom line.

The big problem with San Francisco (and New York and a couple other big cities) is that once you lose your rent controlled apartment, you’ll never not be homeless. It’s an environment where it’s completely impossible to pull yourself back out of the gutter (I say this as a former SF Bay Area resident who had the…

I think by “fixed”, he just means he has the cops and secret service forcibly move the homeless a few blocks over so he and visiting world leaders don’t have to look at them.

She cut 10 off of him and kept 9. If she and Biden split the “moderate” vote, and the progressives can pick one candidate to get behind (hint, it should be Warren at this point) then that progressive candidate will have a real chance to secure the nomination.

[Godzilla “let them fight” meme]

I hate when people like Weiss insert themselves into these kinds of arguments. This shit is complicated, and the two sides have valid and important perspectives. It is important to remind Americans, white Americans in particular, the blood and tragedy that built our modern privilege.

Fare, but it doesn’t give them the right to harass us on *our* free time or undermine our mental health because they didn’t get their way.

That’s just it, gamers don’t “vote with their wallets”. They throw temper tantrums and harass developers online, then buy the games they’re throwing tantrums about anyway.

As someone who was disappointed with the end of ME3, I very strongly agree with you. It just encourages this kind of harassment when these overgrown children think their $60 gives them the right to personally confront and harass a game’s developers with that “I need to see your manager” energy.

Consumer entitlement is among the worst forms of entitlement. And gamers are among the most entitled consumers out there.

Look you whiney babies, you either get a good game with good animation and quality models with only the regional Pokedex, or you get a port of Sun & Moon’s models and animations with all the pokemon from the national Pokedex.

Let all the centrists stay and fight it out till the end and dilute their votes and money. Let some of the lesser progressives stay in until December to compete for VP and cabinet positions.

You can go work for the government doing the same thing minus the evil CEO.

Popular toxic streamer with a large, toxic fan base faces no consequences for his toxic behavior?

Whether the scene was intended to be expressing sexual, romantic or platonic love (any of which would have made Shinji blush uncomfortably), the translation of the word should have remained “love”.

I understand the impulse to discourage the candidates from clawing into each other, but we need to rip these bandaids off now. If Biden is allowed to be the nominee, we will see Trump calling him a racist in the general.

This is some Trumpian/Orwellian level “words don’t mean what they mean” shit.

Fuck this guy and fuck Twitch.

No one wants to hear it, but there is a thin line between what Omar said and this. That’s why it’s so important to call it out in good faith and ensure people are being clear and specific in their comments about Israel.