With every princess before Jasmine being white (and only three non-white Disney Princesses in total), there is no way to diversify these casts without these kinds of changes. Give her a red lacefront and a green tail, she’ll read as Ariel to most people.

The hospital basement then.

Punisher stories are at their worst when they present Frank as righteous or admirable. They’re not much better when they have him personally present moralizing diatribes telling people to not be like him. It’s an awkward kind of self-awareness that doesn’t jibe with his typical behavior. That’s why there’s often a…

Black people lived, fought and died in Europe all the way back in Roman times. Even before Moorish rule in Spain, the Romans were bringing North African, Arab and Jewish citizens, traders and slaves to Europe.

I love medieval aesthetics, but the deus vult motherfuckers that flock to these games are maybe the most toxic corner of the gaming community.

Theoretically. But that tends to break down a lot, if only because games tend to devolve into “kill everything that moves,” which limits where the narrative can take you. And then when you sacrifice something or someone so you can have +4 attack power. Games can still be powerful, but frequently, they aren’t.

So what do we call them? Using existing taxonomy, a “Metroidvania” hits several categories. 2D Platforming-Adventure is the most succinct but it doesn’t cover every element that defines them. That’s also a lot more sylables, and to someone not familiar with games it may still not make any sense or be any more inviting.…

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.…

God forbid he upset 4chan.

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.

A Hellraiser anthology series, where the Cenobites act like a greek chorus observing the perversity of human nature set in different time periods and locales... that could be something really interesting.

“or which format would better suit Barker’s extremely dark and violent tale”