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Friction Burns
the turtle-faced alien Wrex from Mass Effect

For Commander Shepard, Ignorance Is Access

By Ruth Cassidy • January 31st, 2022

Shepard’s xenophobia and its invisibility are both tools to give players what they want: as much access to the game’s world as possible, without the social cost.

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50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again

By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021

Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.

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Skin Deep

By Malindy Hetfeld • July 25th, 2018

For a modern racial allegory, David Cage repeats a lot of history’s mistakes

Another Look
A purple clad figure with a dice for a head and a pencil thin moustache over top of a gambling board. This is a still from the game Cuphead.

Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation

By Yussef Cole • November 10th, 2017

I see a game that’s haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others.

How to Watch The Big Short and Stay Smarter Than the Average Chimp

By Declan Taggart • March 4th, 2016

Why does the boiling rage of the collective simmer down to a flavorless consomme of apathy, resentment and mistrust?

Please, For the Love of God, Don’t Watch The Ridiculous Six

By Megan Condis • February 1st, 2016

Ridiculous 6 is 6 kinds of ridiculously bad.

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