You’re acting like the government and trans people are equally affected by jokes portraying them as . Yes, they punch everyone, but most of the people they’re punching are their own size and one definitely isn’t. And you know what? Rockstar isn’t even counter culture anymore. GTA V is literally the second best selling…

I know one should assume good faith, but’s impossible for me to truly believe you don’t understand why people are making a lot more noise over this particular case than the sixty million other kid’s movies that come out every single day featuring heterosexual kissing.

They’re about the same accounting for inflation.

Well, sure, but what possible reason would he have for doing it if not to plaster it all over the internet? I guess maybe for insurance, but it seems like the primary reason was clicks.

The article said it was a “promotional” meal. It’s not that Travis Scott went down to McDonalds and was paid twenty million dollars for a great new combo idea. It created buzz.

Just because the fictional character genuinely did things in a nice way in-universe doesn’t mean it doesn’t soften people up to the idea when looking back on historical cases. No one genuinely thinks that Willy Wonka, who does not exist, literally enslaved the Oompa-Loompas, but it’s still a bad look if it whitewashes…

Listen, these street racers deserve to have the book thrown at them, but the charge of manslaughter exists for a reason. The entire concept behind having varying types of crime with concrete definitions completely falls apart if we start going by how mad the case makes us.

N...no? Transformers are downright fragile in comparison. Watch the scene from the animated movie where Megatron kills a bunch of the earlier cast, one shot in the shoulder of all places makes fire explode from their eyes and mouth. Even discounting stuff like Endless Waltz’s mobile suits needing to be tossed into the…

Racist fans are going to be racist towards the one Black man in the sport if he so much as doesn’t look someone in the eye when he congratulates them on a win. People were angry with Hamilton for reasons that had nothing to do with race except for racist fans taking it to a racist place like they always will.

Uh, I wasn’t a fan of how Red Bull has handled this, but “stoked racial tensions”? Do you imagine a world where F1 fans were a bastion of progressive morals until Red Bull got hyper passive-aggressive and flipped the switch that made them suddenly comfortable with calling a Black man they already hate the N-word?

Undertale’s Genocide route is intentionally less fun and a lot harder because of like two fights, but a Neutral run - where you skip the solution to even just one puzzle battle by jamming the attack button instead - is significantly easier than it or the Pacifist route, since to qualify for the Genocide route and…

I only remember people cheering for it, including myself at the time. It’s not really fair to act like in-universe circumstances make it more comfortable in retrospect, because when it comes to these things the whole idea is that it presents circumstances that seem to justify a practice. It’s not like people who…

Would the response not be that 90s comics were bad too? That’s just kicking the origin of the sexism up a ladder, and still leaves them the blame for perpetuating it. It’s like if a show included unironic blackface gags in an attempt to capture the nostalgia of 70s British comedy.

Sure. So? No one is saying there’s something they should be posting, just noting the no-win situation they’ve put themselves in and how this has ground their vast advertising mill to a halt.

I agree with you but man, quoting fascists doesn’t help.

I dunno. Sure, moving from street circuits to road courses would make for safer racing in the long run, but when Frankie Fazzary died they had chosen to not even put hay bales up. By the standards of the time, they could have tried a lot harder than they did without abandoning street circuits altogether. 

Are people really looking forward to Ghostwire enough that it would be worth sabotaging?

Studies show speed limits are entirely unnecessary. The one and only reason they still exist is to give cops something to do.

Harvey Weinstein wasn’t hosting SNL when shit was going down. How many headlines to the tune of “this guy whose horrible moral flaws the entire media is hyperfocusing on atm sure does have horrible moral flaws”? Elon Musk does new dumb shit on a regular basis, thus regular coverage. 

I guess that just makes it even worse of them to have made the only hint the game is even still in development a half-minute closeup on those models.