You laugh but Chelsea Manning got caught hanging around with the far-right not that long ago. Probably one of them nowadays.

Thing is, outside of scientific naming conventions, it’s always been a bit of a dog whistle for centuries. Just now instead of a way to say “I’m an aristocrat” without seeming boastful it’s used to signify right-wing extremism.

It’s to signify to online right-wing conspiracy-theorist nutcases he’s one of them, an “anti-tyrant” who’s saving “the people” from the evil powers of The Establishment.

Surprised the interview wasn’t conducted by Hadley Freeman, a notoriously transphobic writer who’s got form for turning puff-piece interviews into attempts to force people to express views on the terrors of transpeople while also attempting to pester other staff into writing negative pieces about trans topics, given…

Old White Woman who hasn’t been relevant for some time expresses support for Old White Man half her filmography features and Old White Woman she’s friends with.

But that’s why I find the whole “argument” over how much the content itself has changed rather... bizarre.

I guess in isolation and only looking at Twitch you could argue “her content has changed” in that she has a claimed lower “non-gaming” streamtime but given that Twitter account very much shows her OF is still up (which I’d imagine, along with her investments, is probably what makes up the lion’s share of that 7…

Now I just feel bad for that woman who went on Ellen and, after finding out her long lost father had been returned from the Iraqis, won three Toyota Corollas for which she’ll now have to pay for all this shit.

His bargain did go astray though.

Got to love Auralnauts. If you haven’t seen their previous Star Wars work I would, they manage to turn the mess it’s become into a cohesive narrative involving Palpatine being a businessman trying to run an effective conglomerate while dealing with the Jedi, who are fratboi druggies, and C3PO or Creepio as he’s called…

Obviously with inflation it’s not so stark but the fact a billion in box office has gone from rare to the norm in, what, a decade or so is ridiculous.

Related, it’s insane how high nominal box office grosses have gotten in the last decade, to the point all 50 of the highest grossing films have now crossed the billion mark and the fourth highest ever nominal gross in 2008 is now the 49th.

Plenty of countries do have those systems, because people with the value set Hasan and co. claim to have actually did the grunt work to achieve the change to do that. So far, Hasan’s talked a lot of the talk but walk the walk has he fuck.

It’s literally called “redistribution of wealth” and it’s one of the central tenets of socialism, and despite the piss-poor attempts of him and his fans to claim otherwise it very much as an ideology conflicts with someone accumulating enough wealth that they can easily afford to blow a person’s average lifetime…

What they of course mean is that no one was buying their games on PC via the launcher, because why would they when Uplay/Ubisoft Connect is the most broken piece of shit launcher out there that can’t even auto-login despite how many times I would click the fucking “remember me” button.

I like how, as always whenever you mock Piker’s lavish lifestyle, you immediately get the completely Musk Weird Nerd-esque dishonest “are you expecting him to live in a hole” stuff as though there’s no comfortable standard of living below having a multi-million dollar house and a $200,000 car that still exceeds that…

The “prestige model” hasn’t collapsed, there wasn’t a model to begin with. What gave Weinstein such power in the first place was how he was considered the one production company that could make money from a “prestige” film.

Would say I wouldn’t be surprised if she was reprimanded by the BBC for that but then I realised they’re commenting on shitty treatment of LGBT+ people in Qatar which is terrible and not in the UK where LGBT+ rights are now, according to the BBC, “open for debate”.

If this is the case, though, I’m sort of surprised they didn’t keep up the rouse until after awards season.

I’m shocked that it turned out a bunch of people playing in the most sell-out nature tournament run by one of the most corrupt organisations in sports have no actual interest in standing up for anything the moment there could be the most minor of consequences…