It was eerie. The show: Started great but now I feel a bit disappointed, like they just have not put in quite enough production value and editing to pull it off. The writing seems fine but...

I’m kind of obsessed with reactions to the show on Youtube, at least those that give the show some chance and don’t just scoff from lofty reviewer-like heights of no-watchi-ness, and I’ve begun to dig out a pattern:

Now Gita too? Whoever is running this company, get rekt you fool.

I do this kind of work as a ‘gig’ and as annoying as family can be (they keep rejecting my invoices, jerks) you’d be surprised how big a difference you can make in someone’s sense of wellbeing by giving their tech a clean bill of health.

TeamViewer is often used by hostage taking malware morons to chat with their victims. AFAIK nothing wrong with the software itself but like the media keeps getting wrong recently (they are getting dumber) it’s ‘guilt by association’.

Make them charge themselves and move in line themselves. Add a Tesla Cafe with free WiFi and Coffee and some people will want to get stuck in traffic. This doesn’t seem like heavy lifting.

I can’t wait for this to fail. I guess that is evil? But is wanting something evil to die evil or just a bit morose?“

Look, I don’t care whether your comment expresses an opinion on the subject or not. What I care about is whether or not we’re getting to 600 comments. I want some good ol’ super long threads and it doesn’t matter to me if you write them or D+D write them or George writes them.

Perhaps the next step is to create overly mundane holidays ... but then have the costumes be exceedingly elaborate.

Community Oversight Board. Each word a lie. The whole thing a sham. Don’t let ‘em keep it this way Dallas!

Perhaps a ‘nothing’ comment but just wanted to say that I found your humorous take on this just perfect. It’s more fun to nerd casual than take something so seriously a droid would have to carry the message.

I hold it in high regard, definitely in spite of it’s unevenness or hard leans on particular tropes. It completely captivated me probably because of those things as much as anything else. I don’t think one needs to excuse or apologize for being heartbroken that the show only had a single season. Some of you probably…

I tried making boardgames for this when I was teaching science and I can tell you it’s not at all easy (I failed), so I have a lot of respect for the effort, however it’s somehow always disappointing at where these efforts jump off in order to make their game actually fun to play. I’d generally rather have fun games…

As a biology nerd I am grinding my teeth that they have you Lamarck your ancestors rather than devise a system that would actually fit with natural selection. Why go to the trouble of devising so many rich behavioral and environmental only to end up gamifying everything that the game is premised upon?

Would be fun to time travel to those first session of Arneson’s Kuntz’s and Gygax’s. Thanks for a really epic essay Cecilia!

They could have done it better in fewer episodes. I don’t accept your premise that the length of the seasons is the primary reason they’ve been crap. Think about the last epic play you’ve seen. Did it run 8-10 hours? Did it manage to convey more in less time? Probably no, and yes.

Not petting Ghost: Just an amateur behaviorist chiming in here: Saying goodbye to pets just increases their anxiety. A good dog owner says a word from confidence, with assurance, then doesn’t look back. Sad goodbyes are for us stupid primates. I was really chuffed when Jon didn’t say goodbye to Ghost as in my eyes…

Gendry once again getting used with just about zero cares about what he wants. The passion in the scene was so perfunctory it felt pretty awful to me yet it seems like most are celebrating Arya’s happy funtime like it’s a wonderful thing for her. Like, you want to know what sex is like? If you’re going to do it like…

(Tongue in cheek here): That’s right “You should only cosplay as your own race.” because nothing will bring about harmony like fragile taboos that keep everyone focused on how we’re different rather than what we share. (you know, like love of video game characters of all different kinds of races).

No, no it’s not. Not categorically as you state and that’s the problem. You don’t get to decide what is and what isn’t the continuation of a practice done by someone else without (as you rightly point out) their context, not just the context of victimization.