Because they are no less dangerous to the people who become addicted than a controlled substance. Addictive personality disorders, like eating disorders, are not something that you can reliably manage through conscientious habits and self-control. They prey upon your impulse control and in part actively interfere with…

Non of ya’ll are gonna like me saying this, but I think that over a thousand employees working under him calling for his resignation after he ignored hundreds of documented and reported examples of sexual misconduct and mistreatment over the course of almost a decade isn’t really a credible reason for him to be fired.…

Boning, rigging, and weight painting are nowhere near the level of nuance for even cut scene quality models that signing requires. Hell, even the equipment for mocap is not well suited for this because tone and context in signing often involves subtle cues from flexing and contracting muscles as opposed to just…

While it does seem like you have a hate boner for capitalism, I just want to point out what you’re describing isn’t actually how most rural economies work. By the very nature of what they produce, it can’t be. Because the seasonality and variable challenges that are likely to crop up, most rural economies rely on a…

I understand the position you think you’re taking but let me point out something simple: If we can agree that good humor can elevate a decent game into someone’s all-time favorites worthy of emulation and a multi-series cult following, why is it somehow such an extreme idea that bad humor can reduce a decent game into…

Really? For me it was the opposite -- She didn’t compromise on anything except perhaps the image that some people hold of her that she is “above” any interaction with the wealthy, and she managed to get her face and her point infront of the very people she’s trying to address with her central argument literally…

Nevermind, just saw the update. Maybe I should finish reading the article.

It’s a little different as it is taking up space on a platform intended for people to pitch ideas to the public that couldn’t get made without their funding. Visibility and noise are already challenges and it’s not like CDPR doesn’t have the money to build their own in-house speculative interest page like Lego and…

So let’s take bets now that Sharon Osbourne, Elaine Welteroth, and Carrie Ann Inaba are all out. Which do we think it was that ousted Elaine Welteroth:

That’s... a complete misunderstanding of educational principles. Asking how any specific pedagogical approach is empirically “better” is already a failure because it assumes both the educator and the student do not change the parameters of “better.” We know from decades of research that generalized approaches seeking…

I like it. It’s like “why wait for the internet to radicalize some of the youth when we can radicalize all of them at once?” It’s giving me Scapegoating. It’s giving me Nationalist Youth Groups. It's giving me "We pay for the sins of our forefathers." It's the fact that every problem you just listed is a…

Because Kit would never be able to believe that Dottie dropped it on purpose, and up to that point things had turned pretty acidic between them. From Kit’s standpoint, her overbearing sister who has thwarted her at every turn has finally gotten her comeuppance. From Dottie’s standpoint, doing this thing for her sister…

Did you actually just try to argue that the most information-restricted population in the world “overwhelmingly supports” their government? How do you reconcile those two ideas without feeling like a hypocrite? I’m fascinated, in the most horrifying way possible.

Tell me you know nothing about North Korea without telling me you know nothing about North Korea.

So, I knew that I remembered her having a faint Aussie drawl, and I looked you up a reference. This is from a 2002 interview of her discussing herself and her role as Virgnia Woolf. Note, during this period she was not doing or discussing any work that would explain this other than just, her default accent.

Might wanna work on that reading comprehension. In this article there are exactly two positive statements made.

Fiction does not emerge from a vacuum and does not exist in one. Creators must bring their own experiences to their work to create and have an obligation to consider who they are writing for and how their work will be understood. If they didn’t, there would be no point to creating the story. That said, Orientalism…

Look, as a game developer who has worked at big and small houses, east and west, this isn’t about “Big journalist picking on small studio.” There’s a real, historical problem with Westerners borrowing Asian imagery, language, or ideas and completely getting it wrong because they just wanted something that communicated…

Then the conversation comes down to : How great of a mitigation/reduction do you expect to get per dollar spent? Because the infrastructure for that won’t be cheap and depending on the game, it may not be cost-effective.

At the risk of a little false equivalence, we know from studying the psychology of sexual assault perpetrators: For some people, the act of doing harm to others requires the victim to be perceived as unwilling and (ideally) surprised. When the victim seems complicit or prepared, the act can lose its satisfaction for…