I agree on the count of Chang, but not Pierce. The group allowed him to use his "shwami" act as part of a plot-crucial heist while taking Greendale back from Chang's army. And besides, I've heard rumours that Chevy Chase really was like that offstage too. Apparently the rest of the cast hated him.
I agree that preserving the bigotries of the past to show people what they were like critically is important. Although I don't think Cyberpunk counts in this instance. Yes, the artist who originally drew that poster had the intention of satirising the way capitalist companies use trans bodies to sell anything. The problem is, then CD Projekt Red, the capitalist company, used the poster to sell their game. They did the exact thing they were trying to satirise. At one point they held a cosplay contest, and the winner was a cis woman who stuck a glowing dildo up her pants to cosplay as the woman in that poster. And CDPR put images of her cosplay all over their twitter. A cis woman dressed up as a satire of the commodification of trans bodies to win a contest, and a company used her image to sell a video game. You can't have effective satire while doing the very thing you "satirised". I believe the original artist intended to satirise, but the company that owns the rights to the image just played it straight and did the horrible thing in sincerity.
I think an Asian man wearing drowface is a complicated issue with no right answers. But the multiple times Pierce wears explicit brownface are way worse, and if anything was to be removed, they should have gone first.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to moving off Discord. The username change made the biggest difference to me, I lost the last of my trust in them to keep making user friendly decisions at that moment. But regardless of trust, my polycule needs a tool to differentiate headmates, and Discord is the only platform that has that so far. I know because I've looked. We'll switch when a pluralkit equivalent is available
Expecting me to believe that you didn't have any ultieror motives in raising the pig you intend to eat is like convincing me your adult daughter consents to sex with you. Is it theoretically possible? Sure. Do I trust ANYONE enough to make that call in complete honesty? No. So it's not vegan.
I figured this out while thinking about Red Dwarf. Canonically, Lister is his own father. How can his DNA remain stable across all the time loops if he's saturated his own ancestry with himself? This is the answer. It was a 1 in 2^42 chance the first time, but after that, the time loop preserves the coincidence and Lister ends up his own clone every time. He gets all his own DNA from himself every time, and then he just has to get the same DNA from his mum every time. The science is sound. It's tremendously unlikely, but in the infinity of the universe it had to happen eventually, assuming an infinite supply of time travellers banging their own mums.
You can also apply this logic to Futurama, Star Trek, and any other science fiction show with a grandfather paradox.
A troll is someone who engages with the intent of harming others, moreso than any desire to improve the world, say something meaningful, or form social bonds.
We're talking about a magic button that can do anything. Are you so imprisoned by hopelessness that you can't even imagine a magic solution to your problems?
That sounds dangerous. Most people don't reach their ideas through reason. I don't want to lose empathy for all humanity no matter how ignorant they are.
Wot's dis, then? Future laddie printing counterfeits? Blokes like you make me sick, they do. Roight, you're coming down to Scotland Yard to answer a few questions, then.
The definition of "clone" you believe in is science fiction nonsense. Why believe in nonsense when the scientific definition of clone is different?