Peer pressure is a powerful force, and Oxenfree takes the responsibility of conversation between friends seriously in a way few, if any, other games do.
In the upper ward of the hospital, a group of women suffering from vague ailments — a touch of pyromania here, a physical aversion to one's husband there — lead a cosseted existence, "excused from all responsibilities save conversation".
The anticipation is for Bale to take on ever-increasing responsibilities, although conversations over the new contract did not include the manager, Zinédine Zidane.
"As a rape survivor and as an advocate, I cannot shy away from this responsibility because the conversation got difficult," the actress, who was raped at gunpoint at age 19, says in the new issue of Essence.
It is also important that academic staff take responsibility for having conversations with their students about the problem of contract cheating.
Recognizing the importance of sexual and reproductive health to patients with spina bifida (SB), pediatric urologists have taken responsibility for initiating conversations regarding this topic with adolescent and young adult SB patients.
Thus, in spite of our reticence, parents and others who play an influential role in boys' and young men's lives have a responsibility to initiate conversations with them about these matters.
Instead, Voswinkel sparked a more complex conversation about responsibility, equity, and strategy.
Those of us in the baby boom generation have both the opportunity and the responsibility to initiate the conversation with our children, caregivers and doctors.
