The ironic part is that while the cast of the Witcher games and books generally are white, the message of Geralt and his adventures leans a lot more towards what these idiots would call “SJW” territory. The Elves and Dwarves of the Witcher universe are fill ins for just about any minority, and they’re usually unfairly…

I see the fact that the writing team does not include any dwarfs or elves as a total fail.

I just know I’m going to have a hard time accepting a Geralt with a different voice.

This! Which is why it bugs me when I hear people saying “Mads Mikkelsen was born to play Geralt”. I’m like “no, no he wasn’t because he can’t do the voice”.

Yeah I find it sad and hilarious that people are being racist against the writing room for a series where one of the main narrative themes is precisely racism (and not precisely from a racist point of view.)

It’s like all these idiots missed the point when reading the books/playing the games.

Idris Elba in everything. If they remade the Golden Girls, I would want Idris Elba to be one of them. No drag, no age-makeup. Just Idris Elba being gossipy with a bunch of old ladies.

The Witcher books have sold between 5 and 6 million copies around the world, only a small number of those in Poland. Yes, that’s where the series came from and where the author’s from, but the series also had a very strong following in Russia, Spain, Hungary and a few other countries, and now in Germany, the UK and…

I went to a funeral for a family friend yesterday, and while talking to my parents and several other family friends, we somehow got onto the topic of daycare. (I think someone asked if my husband and I were thinking about having another kid, and I said we couldn’t afford it.) When I told them how much we pay for day…

“Draw a breath”... like WHAT??? It doesn’t even have alveoli, just lung buds. Go back to school doc!

I wondered how the use of familial DNA to catch the Golden State Killer would turn into a dystopian nightmare. That was quick.

Goddammit. Disney gets to make whatever story they want, I get it, but this is not the story I want. I’m not interested in a Luke that wants to sever his connection to the Force. It flies in the face of everything he did in the OT and who he is.

Last year I spent some time trying to find a database of unindentified kids in confiscated kiddie porn. I was sexually abused from about 3 to 10. Except for a handful of incidents I have giant memory holes (thankfully). So I have no way to know if there are photos. I was only looking so that I could maybe have proof…

This seems like a dumb thing to be upset about. Why should a little girl have to wear a shirt if a little boy at the same age doesn’t have to wear a shirt? They’d look exactly the same, they don’t have breasts, why sexualize a little kid? When kids are that little, why make it weird? If it were the little boy topless,…

As they say, democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Ad person here! In general, a “video view” costs about 100x the cost of a display ad impression, even given the same site and user. That doesn’t all get passed to the site, but the same principle applies: you can make 10x the ad revenue on video ads, even if doing so drops traffic by 90%.

A clarification: “dominus obsequious sororium” is not Latin for “master over the slave women”. It’s pseudo-Latin (event worse than “Romanes eunt domus”).

including at GMG, the staff of which fears the newsroom may be cut by up to a third by the end of June, perhaps as part of a broader pivot toward video and branded content.

So is this a “spouses can’t be forced to testify” situation? If it is that means they knew back last year that the authorities were closing in.

Apparently we’re back in the 30s and 40s when not answering to white people was a punishable offense.

It is a text of great erudition and a great example of what might be called a “scholarly clapback.” It was written using secondary materials and he meant for it to refute the scholarly consensus that was developing (primarily because of the “Dunning School”) on the impact of Reconstruction. It was and is a…