Le Guin is amazing and is still ahead of our time, and sometimes I worry that she always will be. The best two books to start with, I’d say, are A Wizard of Earthsea and its sequels and The Left Hand of Darkness, both which are wonderful.

Right? There are so many amazing fantasy novels and good YA novels. It’s an incredible pity people are psychotically obsessed with one that has mediocre writing, terrible world-building, is particularly derivative (of a common British genre), and is as Ursula K Le Guin put it “ethically mean-spirited”. It was just the…

You cant separate the art from the artist when the ‘art’ is what keeps her relevant and influential enough to promote transphobia on a massive scale.

As a prior victim of DMCA takedown abuse on YouTube, I thought we had it bad. But if any Joe Schmoe can use it to yoink entire games off storefronts too, then that’s absolutely fucking broken and a nightmare for game devs.

It’s Mechanical Turks all the way down. 

It’s not “doing” art in any style. It’s just hashing out images and styles that have been fed into it. There is no sensibility involved. It’s not “inspired” by anything. It’s not thinking about the choices it’s making, because there is no choosing involved. If you think there’s any sort of deliberation going on,…

I’m loving the constant, constant handwringing about “bullying” now with regard to the game.

“We could excuse JK Rowling bullying trans people on twitter like it’s her full-time job at this point and giving to charitable organizations working against trans people, but the REAL bullying is saying we’re assholes for…

“Go live your life however you want and just leave us alone and let us game. Jesus.”

Republicans are literally trying to ban providing health care to trans people in 26 states right now. Like, that’s not hyperbole. They want trans people to just die.

*sigh* posting this is a mistake, because everyone on Kotaku is biased...

It’s ALWAYS ‘lives are on the line!’

“People get tired of it.” If you think it’s exhausting caring about genocide imagine how exhausting it is having to justify your right to exist every waking moment of every day. If your biggest struggle is “people on internet are mean about me enjoying genocide simulator that gives money to people committing genocide”…

Lol, shut the fuck up. If you hate trans people for simply existing, that isn’t a nuanced opinion, that is fascist bullshit. 

Indeed. Shame that the visual effects weren’t super movie/TV friendly at the time (nor was the sheer amount of content easy to pack into movies), or that the content might have been a bit to traumatic for most producers to pick up.

K.A. Applegate actually respects the intelligence of young adults, though, so it was…

The sheer number of books that are amazing, too.

Like, can K.A. Applegate and her work get even a fraction of this love that HP weirdly gets, please?

Yeah, it’s funny how people equate the archaicness of the language Shakespeare used with him always being highbrow. I like the Marvel comp. The one I’d always used was Snoop Dogg: people reacted to Shakespeare making up words like “eyeball” just like we reacted to Snoop’s phrase “fo’ shizzle.”

Like the Shakespeare comparison. After hundreds of years Shakespeare is seen as some highbrow stuff taught in advanced high school and college courses, but Shakespeare was kinda the Marvel of its time. Just accessible fare for all. Majors is a good actor so I’m sure if Quantumania has any issues he’s not one of them.

I’ve deal with my own narc, so I know the pathology well, but Azula was the victim of emotional child abuse. Her shit father only gave her approval for acts of cruelty, she was basically abandoned by her mother, and lacked any positive role model like Uncle Iroh.

Unironically give her a tv show. Laughed real hard at her “audition”

I too can be an absolute dingleberry at times. I also say really stupid things with great confidence.