Introduction On September 17, 2015, Dan Olsen, also known as Folding Ideas, uploaded a video where he discusses what he calls the ‘Thermian Argument’. The ‘Thermian Argument’ is composed to two parts and his conclusion: Some elements in media are criticized, usually for racism or sexism. Fans defend these elements by…

Introduction One of the most common criticisms made against The Rising of the Shield Hero series was how the hatred against Naofumi comes off as shallow. “The plot point was written for the sake of it,” they would say. “All the villains are cartoonishly evil and this is just to satisfy…

Introduction On August 21, 2018, Valve announced a new version of Steam Play for Linux gamers called Proton. This feature is a fork of Wine, a compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to be run on Linux operating systems. …

Introduction On July 5, 2018, Mike O’Brien, President of ArenaNet announced on the Guild Wars 2 forum that Narrative Designers Jessica Price and Peter Fries were fired from the company. He cited their attacks on community and failure to uphold ArenaNet’s standards of communicating with players as reasons for their dismissal…