I may be over-attributing the bigotry of many to one person, but Persona 3, 4 and 5 were all directed by the Katsura Hashino, who also directed the egregiously transphobic Catherine. He’s still at Atlus, but directing games for a different team. I’m sort of hoping that with him out of the lead seat, these games could…

It’s not “Joker can’t be gay” that made the game homophobic, it was all the homophobia that made it (and the couple previous entries) homophobic.

Your numbers are outright incorrect.

This is so miserable. I’m gutted by this. Fuck capitalism, go home.

I mean, it’s the Dave Chapelle shit that’s actually unlikable. The stories Mulaney tells onstage may be true (may be), but he’s playing a character up there. It’s all an act for laughs, that’s what comedy is. But putting your brand behind Dave fucking Chapelle in his TERF era? That’s not an act, that’s not blurring…

This is a pretty big misinterpretation of what is meant by the phrase “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.” It doesn’t mean you stop trying.

I don’t know who Dunkey is, and found the whole bit vaguely weird and really off-putting. Like, it was a bit, right? I genuinely couldn’t tell. Would it have been funny to see them be just kind of briefly uncomfortable if I followed his content?

You are not missing out!

“Either loved or hated” seems kind of par for the course for Illumination. Which is weird to me, because some of the positive reviews (I’m almost invariably in the “hated it” category) of their films makes me feel like the reviewer saw a different movie. It’s very odd to me and I’m not entirely sure why it works like…

Trans people have been moving to arm themselves, and making the very vocal (and difficult to argue) case that more strict gun control laws will only apply to the already-disenfranchised, just like the abortion bans do.

https://www.swantower.com/2015/02/04/the-absence-of-women/

After escaping slavery, the main character gets a cush job working for his slavers. You’re probably not going to convince me that this is a book which actually reckoned with its own depiction of slavery. I gave up midway through book 2 before book 3 came out, and if the excuse is “you have to wait until book 3 to get…

Seriously. SERIOUSLY.

Y’all. This is genuinely unhinged.

Counterpoint: the first book of the Stormlight Archive is fucking morally reprehensible in how it presents a coherent message of slavery being a horrible cruelty that people could escape if they wanted to, and the slavers being actually good people to work for if you just stop wanting to be a slave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_teachings_on_homosexuality_in_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University_LGBT_history

For a guy who makes millions per year and tithes a big percent of that to the Mormon church, maybe a catty article in Wired is the least he deserves.

I don’t know what’s happening here, the video seems pretty transparently a joke to me. It does not seem weird to make a joke that is “uhhhhh you had a very obvious idea that bears an extremely minor and passing resemblance to something I did once THIS IS MALFEASANCE.” It might not be sold in the most obvious way, but…

Funny you should mention! No, they weren’t blind, not in the way the video claimed. The video was titled “1000 blind people see for the first time.” He was paying for cataract surgery. These people had blurred or occluded vision and needed a brief but no, they weren’t seeing for the first time.

He’s not the only influencer. Do you really think that every other shitty YouTuber is assailed with accusations that they’re not being philanthropic? You really think these arguments just come down to “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” when what we’re talking about is creating a personally lucrative brand off of…