Cinderella, yes. I don't know if there's any way to articulate Sleeping Beauty at all except as abominably parented/protected.

I can certainly agree that it was super fucked up and that the present is also, but I'd argue that that particular aspect of the enlightenment was all around a remarkably low point. Reviving chattel slavery (at least within Christendom) in the wake of the middle ages largely suppressing it and then constructing…

It's strikingly difficult to have a conversation about actual policies on any topic, but it's particularly shameful in this case.

This was a far pithier and more articulate version of the 30 seconds of enraged cognitive noise-fury my brain fed me upon reading this article's title.

Thank you! I was so worried my brain had gotten all plaqued up.

Yeah, I think this is one of a handful of other issues that definitively demonstrate the post-modern phase of American politics, the most important thing, according to our politics, our politics reference are other politics.

Yup, but of a fairly specific sort. Much of academic politics is sincerely political (questions of policy and resources) in a way that the contemporary political climate has 'moved past.' But there is also a culture war component which is… so far beyond the norm that it can beggar belief. Culture wars within culture…

That's an argument that was made at the time, some, sure, but it's also moving the goal posts both for the period in question and in the current conversation (A) and (B) that's a huge assumption - that property status overrides person status - that was deeply problematic both from the perspective of basic ontology…

So I really want to play Final Fantasy Tactics, what are my legitimate options for that at this point? Is it still pick up an outdated console or an I-device? And is the bug on i-devices still more or less a game killer?

I agree with all of these complaints.

Yeah, I can understand why other factions object to it, but it's still an objection that either depends on some clear knowledge of the faction going for the victory or a LOT of unfounded assumptions.

Yeah, there are advantages to taking the hit early on a big spread - particularly since the resource bottlenecks are pretty brutal and trading for them with the AI…

Yeah, though the degree to which you can customize your units and buildings through upgrading/quests does, I think, make up for some of the potential sameness in the tech web.

Really, I feel the only insurmountable disadvantage Civ V has is that it's got nothing like the Fall from Heaven mods - yet.

Yes, thank you. There is really great writing buried in there behind the door marked beware of the Leopard-Beetle.

Yes, that is a huge and immediate advantage over even SMAC.

My biggest gripe is the lack of craft - just the one voice actress for the techs and wonder, no movies, the story is more than a little bit buried, and the alien factions aren't up front or dynamic enough.

SMAC is amazing. Certainly my candidate for the Ur-Game, and I'm sorry this review didn't delve further down that rabbit hole.

Well, the AV Club is coming to this issue late (which is cool since, in general, I do NOT need my professional and pop-cult newsletters to cover the same issues) but the basic conflict is students care about other students and administrators care about other administrators and there has been a HUGE debate in admin…

Neither could children, women, or men who held too little property - which were populations no one was arguing should be left out of the census even as different states had very different ideas about voting populations in general.