We have the global social mobility index from the World Economic Forum, as of 2020 Canada was 14th, the U.S. was 27th. The top 10 were Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, and Luxembourg. The next two were Germany and France.

Well, they could have the good directorial debut followed by the sophomoric directorial debut once they get around to making a crap movie.

If you lost the director, cinematographer, scriptwriter, and lead editor from a movie, for the sequel...

That’s what How to Read Donald Duck is about.

Remind me again how much Blizzard is making off of selling virtual gems to Diablo phone players?

Video game reporting is a form of trade journalism, though, Schreier might report more on the investigative and long-form version of that trade journalism, but news that a company is working on this or that project is newsworthy. The difference is that keeping quiet about upcoming releases and keeping developers…

Technically correct is the best kind of correct, are you new at this or something?

It’s not that false. The Westboro Baptists protested funerals of dead soldiers and school shooting victims saying that it was a punishment from god for the U.S. being increasingly tolerant of homosexuals, including denouncing, where applicable, the dead and their living family members for being Catholics, which the…

Hell, 20 states and DC allow first cousins to marry and it’s kind of an interesting breakdown, the majority is basically all of the east coast with a couple exceptions.

Because of course there’s a kith x bmw.

Plenty of people are playing BF for the large-scale CQB or less vehicle friendly city maps, which is why Karkand, Seine, Metro, Locker, White Pass, Zavod, Bazaar, and Dawnbreaker were so popular in the last couple decades of Battlefield releases and there were servers dedicated to running them 24/7, and probably might…

Is a gift bag cheap? I mean, Derek Jeter handed out gift baskets.

Yes, I’m just wondering if there’s a sort of which came first scenario here, where developers modify mechanics to put their mark on a title, while at the same time developer compensation has been connected to review scores in the past, and reviewers have marked down sequels for not being innovative enough. 

There’s also a mentality in gaming media that sequels have to do new things, that it isn’t enough to just provide a quality gaming experience that mechanically functions the same or similarly to previous entries.

If he was still alive I bet he’d try to trademark the term.

Cottagecore is a thing with some millennials and gen Zers where they cosplay an idealized English/European pastoral lifestyle or aesthetic as a response to urban hustle culture or whatever else is driving them to a nostalgia for a simple life they very likely never experienced. As for era, it’s probably synonymous…

Late reply.

Racism can be local but consumption of products can be global. So, it’s a French game released in the U.S., which has a sizable Chinese immigrant population with its own complicated history and ongoing interactions with the country’s white majority. Like other forms of consumption, the product is looked at through the…

What you’re missing is that the discussion of racism and appropriation is all local. Identity-politics-progressives recognize the majority white American culture as a default where hyphenated (minority) Americans are othered (though every once in a while one of those hyphens gets integrated into the default), and that…

The thing about these extreme poverty charts that get trotted out for the sake of positivity is that if you look at a real income growth chart over the last few decades and start going up the percentile of income distribution once you get around to the 65th percentile, you actually start seeing a dip where it goes…