Wouldn’t that mean a week without pay. I miss too many comics already.
That’s why there were no posts yesterday. I was busy turning 46 years old. And indeed yesterday I organized papers, as mentioned in this week’s Clutter Report.
If there are no distractions this week I would like to get to another Finally Watched, and I may have a BW Pilot Review for the new Scooby-Doo cartoon, but I want to see another episode or two in the hopes it gets better. I was not impressed with the first episode. We have yet another Robotech comic from the Academy Comics years taking place before and after the next Macross Saga issue we need to look at, and I’m trying to remember what happened to the third issue of that miniseries. I think I have it. You never can tell with my collection. A huge organizing project and it’s still got problems. Let’s see what happens this week.
Extra Credits Versus The Nazis
I still haven’t taken a screenshot of the new logo, have I? They haven’t been with The Escapist for years.
Extra Credits is a channel and show I promote often since they have interesting topics for filler posts or occasionally something I build an article and commentary of my own around. I also enjoy their spin-off shows Extra Sci-Fi and Extra Mythology thought I don’t really follow Extra History. I still enjoy the channel and encourage everyone to check it out.
However, a recent episode has gotten them in hot water with even their own audience. In the episode “Stop Normalizing Nazis–Socially Conscious Game Design” the team took to task games where you play as Nazis and terrorists in multiplayer, or at least when you don’t have the choice to. I do understand the backlash and both sides of this issue aren’t completely wrong. Let’s see what they actually said and then see how they responded.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 12, 2019 in Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, Extra Credits, Nazi, political commentary, terrorist, video games.
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