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... I'm an arab, speaking from experience. And you brought up "terrorist" and "muslim" as synonymous, and within Western culture there exists an association between arab bodies and muslim beliefs. I'm not making the association, I'm observing it. I DON'T need to argue why because it's...

I think one of those things you don't get to have a "personal moral opinion" on is torture. You said to 'terrorists' but that word is charged to a point that you let slip in your later speech that it's arab people who are profiled as 'terrorists', even when they're perfectly average people...

The ethics of torture aren't a derail when the man whose name is in the title of the thread has threatened to increase the amount of state-sanctioned torture in the US, and once someone brought it up, you were like "Oh well waterboarding isn't that bad when it's done to brown people, I don't see...

It's still *about* the mafia, though. Just in a different light, from a different perspective. Every video game is a fantasy. BF1 is an unbelievable FPS because you don't have to pry bullets out of your wounds, disinfect, and bandage yourself by this nitpick. Got a source on that statistic?

So the franchises are ruined by virtue of their having black people in them, is what you're saying? And I didn't say that, I mentioned how you could help independent minority developers getting set up so they don't eat up your sweet precious Battlefield and Mafia sequels.

Dozens of video games come out a year in the AAA market and you're hung up on those two? Why not just play something else if you're bothered by them having black people in them?

Of course it's not your job to hold anyone's hand, and of course people are going to make their own things regardless of your input. And like, yeah they did man. What do you think publishers do? What do you think crowdfunding is for?

The only game I can think of that's set in actual medieval europe off the top of my head is like, Darklands.

I mean, I have no strong feelings on this particular subject but what's wrong with one or two? :P It's all fantasy anyway.

Othello is ahistorical.

Ah damn! I've never played Revolver, but didn't they just port it to the PS4? Might be the right time to try it.

This... looks almost identical to the Xbox 360 version of the game. Reminds me of the Dark Souls 2 rerelease.

I hope they manage to top the first game. I had problems with RDR but damn, if it didn't sell me on the ride into Mexico when 'Far Away' by Jose Gonzalez started playing. Parts of it felt like a Cormac McCarthy novel. This might get me to get a Rockstar game for the first time since then, I love...

I absolutely agree with this. There's always gonna be someone calling lowbrow pulp trash, but it's still just mindless fun imo, which I love. I just don't want games to be ALL burgers!

I never excused any of those things, and I'm talking about video games. And I could unpack the reasons that all three of those things are pretty terrible in my view but it's off-topic. Also, this reply seems like a bit of a red herring. Men and women both have the ability to make...

Yes! I don't have a problem with their being sex, sexy themes, and sexy people in video games (I'm so gay for Yennefer oh my god) it's just when you refuse to give the character any depth beyond being sexy or just make them sexy and there for the player to jerk off to that it becomes a problem...

The issue here is that those actors are real people who can't help the way they look, and Lara Croft is a 3d model specifically designed to be "sexy".

I love all of these characters, yeah! But you didn't even know Samus was a woman until the end of the first game (up until that point operating under the assumption that she was a man, right?), Lara Croft was made to be marketed to young men, the core marketing demographic for video games in the...

The accusations of racism and sexism come from arguments like this one, where people can't humble themselves enough to see that their perspectives on art aren't absolute and instead deign to shut down any notion that people who aren't like you deserve to play through their fantasies instead of...

En kol chadásh táchat hashámesh, yeah, it's from Torah :P Because a black mother's perspective is one that games as an artform have yet to explore in a meaningful sense. I think fatherhood and motherhood are different concepts with different meanings that bring different perspectives to...