So by your logic we should also ban anyone saying anything positive about the Bible or Jesus, right? Because think of the untold numbers of people who were murdered and tortured by that “genocidal weapon of mass destruction.”

If that’s nuance we’re just plain fucked.

I guess you could argue that the current debate at least is a real disagreement as to what is “art.” But that idea simply ignores the overall point of the article - that there’s no attempt at reasoned debate. Instead there’s a ganging-up and shouting-down like he made some sort of unforgivably horrific statement that…

This is a fair point. A separate point from the article, but not unfair.

Not that they should, just that it worked out that way and has consequences. Doesn’t seem that subtle a difference to me.

No one reads the actual linked article, do they?

The author specifically addresses that point by explaining the difference between a cultural anti-snob from 1985 and these folks today. Today, as said above, the response to Scorsese saying “Pop culture isn’t art” is not to“dismiss Scorsese as an egghead whose tastes were hopelessly effete and out of touch with what…

Wasn’t really the point of the article. The point was that, across things like Gamergate and the present MCU “controversy,” proponents of these types of what was formerly derided as “nerd culture” have overreacted to criticism at any level with a crazed level of zeal, as if things like the $50B game industry or MCU…

When I lived in Tokyo in the 90s it was pretty common for the businessmen on the subway to read those thick, newsprint mangas that were all about men in positions of authority leering, being peeping toms, and attempting (usually unsuccesully) to seduce uniformed schoogirls. Very graphic except that there were black…

This is inspired. Thank you.

So is this learned behavior or some inherent characteristic that I can use to explain why I suck so badly at these games?

O.K.

I know it’s extremely GenX of me, but I’m having a “I’m glad we’ve solved all the other problems” reaction to this.

Addy seems nice...

I had a 64 1/2 Mustang as my high school first car. No power steering, no power brakes, thin steering wheel about the size of a bus. Learned to drive on it.

I personally left the Church of Satan for P.A.G.A.N. decades ago. It was all about the outfits.

She needed to remember to buy more pads.

I never understood the heavy favorite stuff. You take out the largely “let’s figure things out as they go” first part of the 6-month plus baseball season and the Nationals are as good as any team in baseball. And that first part was a long time ago.

Any idea at all when it comes out for Switch?  If it’s before EOY, I’ll wait and see.  Otherwise I think I’ll pick it up for PC.

When I was in college in Austin, there was this abandoned limestone quarry far north of town where we used to go cliff diving. It was excellent - a 50+ foot drop into extremely blue unknowably deep water, all totally unauthorized and unsupervised. Called, obviously “The Quarry.” At the very bottom (which was…