Wrath of Dagon

He referred to her as a guerilla. He did apologize for using an unfortunate word, but it's not his fault the two words sound the same. If he had time to think it over, you could argue he did something wrong, but in live commentary he didn't have time. The point is it's ridiculous to destroy a man's career and reputation over one word.

Why would he be apologetic if he did nothing wrong? I'm not aware of anyone who called his reaction into question, just the use of that word in the first place. I don't think it has anything to do with his reaction, it has everything to do with cowards at ESPN projecting their own racism onto others.

Don't forget your smelling salts while you're pearl-clutching.

I don't consider Congress taking back their constitutional power a dumb solution. Apparently you believe in rule by an unelected elite (I'm sure they never get lobbied). Sure the agencies will try to game any system, but it may not be as easy as you imagine, and there are counter measures which can be taken. In any case it's better than doing nothing.

Actually no one has to give him the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise everyone can do anything they want so long as they say it wasn't intentional afterwards. No, most actions are clearly intentional, others could be intentional or negligence. There's no evidence so far of either here. Lol, if someone is offended, someone surely must pay. Don't know what the legal requirements are, but to have evidence of wrongdoing before imposing punishment is a basic precept of justice.

If he has no proof it was intentional, he has to give the accused the benefit of the doubt. You're exactly acting out the sentence I put in quotes earlier.

No, but a human being should care.

Do you really think he would've intentionally used a racial slur knowing he would be fired immediately? "There's a small chance he meant this in a racist way, we better destroy his career and reputation just to be safe."

You mean the same congress that tries to disprove global warming by bringing a snowball to the floor? Those people that are sponsored by various oil, gas and drilling companies? Yeah, that is going to end well for you. Democracy - know it, love it. To be fair, Congress didn't used to be this dumb. They've greatly limited their ability to perform oversight by cutting their own budgets, as some folks looking to "shrink the size of government" decided to start with what was most in their control. Unfortunately, that meant fewer Committee staffers (and such) who have the requisite knowledge and experience to provide meaningful oversight over very technical executive-branch entities like EPA. (There even used to be a legislative branch "Office of Science and Technology" to help Congress understand stuff. It was cut.) All that does is empower the executive branch and lobbyists (who can push agendas on legislators lacking access to unbiased expert opinions), as well as lead to Congress intervening in dumb ways rather than smart ones. By oversight I mean legislative action, for example there's a proposal that any regulation that costs over a certain amount has to be approved by Congress.

You mean the same congress that tries to disprove global warming by bringing a snowball to the floor? Those people that are sponsored by various oil, gas and drilling companies? Yeah, that is going to end well for you. Democracy - know it, love it.

Not sure how they know that, but I'll take it: https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/831929420973735936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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I'm pretty sure swastikas are still widely used in Asia. Fun fact, there are some in the US Senate too, a whole ornament made of them.

That was "The Deer Hunter".

To be honest, I don't get his explanation and find it weird its taken him three years to come up with it rather than make this argument in 2012 when he came under fire. The Agassi-Sampras ad that was "Guerilla Tennis" featured Agasi and Sampras blocking off a NY city road with a net and playing tennis in the middle of the street. What Adler says is that Venus Williams "...put the gorilla effect in. Charging." I don't immediately see how that ties to the ad, or can tie to the concept portrayed in the ad. That said, without further word on what "guerilla tennis" came to mean in the tennis community past the ads, I guess it is possible that there's something to it. That doesn't necessarily mean that Adler meant it to be racist though although that could also be true. When he apologized at the time he said he used the wrong word. I suspect he was wanting to use an animal that is aggressive in defending territory and charges forward and intentionally/unintentionally/unwittingly/unawaredly used an animal that had long been used to portray those of African descent as sub-human. This just happened last month at the Australian open. And "guerilla effect" was most likely a reference to her rushing the net, which is like an ambush. He apologized for "poor word choice", but only because it was misunderstood. It's too much to expect a live commentator to think through the full implication of what he's saying, and the racist aspect not occurring to him only suggests he's not a racist. Nor did anyone mention any prior allegations of racism against him; like I said, we now always assume the worst and never give anyone the benefit of the doubt.

Thief 3 and IW seemed closely related to me, so it always surprised me people more or less liked one and hated the other.

Fallout? Don't see the fuss about Thief, I played the first one for a while not so long ago. I liked the third one a lot better. Of course I also got bored with the original Deus Ex, but Invisible War is one of my favorite games ever. Yes, you're all free to hate me now, assuming there's someone left who still didn't.

But what if the protagonist turns out to be gay? Or even transgender?

Where did I say that?

Prey may be the Deus Ex sequel we were supposed to get: http://www.vg247.com/2017/02/15/less-surreal-more-cyberpunk-but-preys-first-hour-will-get-inside-your-head/

ESPN reporter fired for being misunderstood: https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/02/14/former-espn-commentator-sues-after-being-terminated-for-venus-williams-gorilla-remark/ Why don't we give anyone the benefit of the doubt any more? And it strikes me it's ESPN who's racist here.

It's out of control, doing whatever it wants. Doesn't need to be eliminated, but needs to be brought back under Congressional oversight. Legislative functions belong to Congress, not the executive and his agencies.

Deep state continues to try to smear Trump by illegally leaking classified info, pretty obvious they have nothing on him yet: And even the tweet you posted shows that NYT is lying, Trump said he hoped that if Russia stole the emails, it would release them, not that he hoped they stole the emails.

Paul Ryan is ahead of him. Then President pro tempore of the Senate, whoever that is.