This is not doxxing. Reposting this from somewhere else in the comments because I'm getting tired of writing the same thing over and over again:
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Wait, is this a thing? Is AVClub actually going Kinja? Because I'd be super bummed about that. Disqus is terrible, but it's better than that.
No, actually posting his name would have been petty stupid revenge once they discovered that his online profile is a shit sandwich. If you do something newsworthy—like get quoted or retweeted by the President of the United States—then, congratulations, you have won newsworthiness. What CNN has done here is…
Yeah, the threat is weird, but it doesn't bother me. CNN is highlighting its own restraint for similar fuckheads out there, not threatening this guy. If that was their only goal, they could have done it privately with a phone call. As I see it, someone at CNN made the (probably correct) call that publishing this…
No, the purpose of that would be to name the person posting gifs reposted by the President of the United States. I'm reasonably sure that the only reason that CNN did not release the guy's name is that they knew it would blow up in his face, since his online presence is, to use the scientific term, a festering wound.
That's not what doxxing is. Doxxing is revealing personal details about someone online in order to intimidate them and to facilitate crowd-sourced online harassment. Posting someone's name, phone number and address, for example, and then inviting fellow trolls to crank call the person, order pizzas and other…
Okay, I'll defend this. We live right now in a society where the media is literally under attack. The President of the United States refers to them as an "enemy of the people." A candidate for the House of Representatives physically assaulted a reporter, and if anything got a bump for having done so. The decades…
Didn't he kind of already do that with "Their lies have vindicated me"?
So does that mean that you all are going to start reviewing episodes again?
Not exactly sure, but I think I'm at like 76% completion? I'm down to the truly obnoxious ones like Two Birds.
I started Witcher 3 last week and just got out of White Orchard. I'm currently being quizzed by the Nilfgaardian general about what I did in Witcher 2 (which I didn't play, so I'll probably give utterly schizophrenic answers). I appreciate what the game does well, but I already feel myself drifting away. I'm…
What part of upstate? We played Whist in the Hudson Valley.
The cop levels in Hotline Miami are maddening, but also give a tremendous feeling of accomplishment. Before, y'know, taking a giant dump on that feeling because it's Hotline Miami, and that's kind of the thesis.
Using or innovating popular idiom doesn't mean that Shakespeare's characters spoke like normal people. Popular idiom has long come out of poetry, which until very, very recently was as artificial as you can get in terms of structure and usage. Just looking at the recent past, think of all the idiomatic expressions…
Out of curiousity, which accent do you saddle the Germans with in your movies? What's the generic villain accent?
The fact that Shakespeare was popular entertainment does not in any way imply that Shakespeare was "close to the common vernacular." Much of Shakespeare was in verse, and even if the prose was less artificial, it was still written to be played. I don't see any reason to think that Shakespeare's prose dialogue was…
It's kind of crazy how the go-to accent that Americans use to signify that someone is not speaking modern American English is one (or more) British(ish) accents. I wonder if the British have something similar? Do ancient Romans speak with a French accent or something? Probably not, it would be pretty British to be…
I don't know how much we really know about the cadence or underlying formality of most bygone eras. For most of human history, writing has been the purview of a very small and rarefied section of humanity, and naturalism in writing is a notably recent development. Most of the gestures that we read as "medieval" or…
I haven't seen it yet, but I'm 100% on board with using modern language in medieval settings. If you're not going to go full-bore medieval Italian—which I respect as an artistic decision but roll my eyes at as a practical one—then everything is deeply anachronistic. Pretending that stilted, maybe slightly…