And this is not to say I don’t support thinking sensitively in terms of our language use.  Use the “r” word around me and I will think less of you.

Since the “this is too sensitive” debate is already in full force, I’m not going to chime in, but I do want to make one note:

I don’t disagree. I was just being picky about what a picket line is. This sounds like a good boycott.

I think you’re right. The boycott seems like a good idea to put pressure on Niantic for rolling back changes that might have been good for a host of reasons — I’m particularly swayed by the accessibility argument.

No argument here.  It sounds like it’s a good boycott.  I was just being kinda picky that it’s not a picket line.

Moderately fun.

Look, I get solidarity and all, but as someone who’s been on actual picket lines, I must admit to being irked by the concept being applied to people wanting a game to work differently than it does.

Probably because it’s cold as hell, I’m guessing.

I’m imagining the encounter-group conversation between Owen Lars and Gobi.

This episode was my favourite so far, because I’m getting the sense they’re really picking up the storytelling for the last few episodes, and it’s beginning to feel a little bigger.  Plus that guided tour of the ship was gold!

I always like the Avengers’ Mansion schematics as well.

Wow, the marginalization in that picture is fascinating. Literally the further you are from being American, the further you are from Kirk.

I wonder if there’s any more footage they could add to that scene where they’re flying around the Enterprise?

You know, Killa K, when I got vaccinated, I confess I was not thinking of your getting drunk in cosplay, but now that I know what’s at stake, I’m all the more glad I took that jab, and I will be wishing fervently for the outcome.

So true. I remember in the 90s looking forward to new software updates for the new features. These days? I can’t think of many new features that get me excited, and in some cases they even break functions that I’ve been using. About which point there should be a whole separate article. Ugh.

I support this initiative. Snyder working on his own IP (however derivative) is way better than Snyder twisting others’ IP into his personal — I believe we say “edgelord” — vision.

Thanks for replying.  I wanted to read more about that, and found this fascinating piece, my last free one at the New Yorker for this month:  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/21/prisoner-of-narnia#:~:text=Tolkien%20hated%20the%20Narnia%20books,constrained%20by%20the%20allegorical%20impulse.&text=The%20best%20…

Good point. I haven’t really zoomed out and looked at Hollywood since 2001 in quite that way, but when you do?  Yeah, that’s a trend...

Did Tolkien hate them?  He and Lewis were friends, weren’t they?

Right on. Those words of hers pretty much convinced me that allegory can’t work anymore. If it ever could.