ZOD, YOUR COMMENT MAKES NO SENSE. ARE YOU TRULY PRETENDING YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW PRIVILEGE CAN WORK? ARE YOU REALLY EXPECTING PEOPLE WITH WORKING BRAIN CELLS TO HEAR YOU SAY “I WORK REALLY HARD/I AM SUPER POOR, HOW CAN I BE PRIVILEGED?” AND NOT ROLL THEIR EYES? DO YOU REALLY NEED IT SPELLED OUT FOR YOU IN WORDS…

THIS MAY COME AS A SHOCK TO YOU, BUT ART AND ENTERTAINMENT ARE VERY OFTEN (SOME ARGUE ALWAYS) POLITICAL.

THAT MAKES MORE SENSE. THERE SEEM TO BE A NUMBER OF DISCUSSION PAGES ABOUT THAT ONE LINE. PETER LORRE’S OWN ACCENT AND STYLE DO NOT HELP MATTERS MUCH.

LETTERS OF TRANSIT “SIGNED BY DEGAULLE” WOULD HAVE BEEN USELESS.

WELL THEN. I REGARD THE PROGRESS TOWARDS MARX’S IDEA OF A STATELESS, CLASSLESS, ADVANCED SOCIETY OF SUPERABUNDANCE, TO BE VAGUE INDEED. YOU SAY HE AVOIDED THE PITFALLS OF THE UTOPIANS, YET HE CREATES A SOCIETY WHICH IS THE UTMOST IN UTOPIANISM — AND CALLS IT SCIENCE. INDEED, IT IS A NEAR-INEVITABILITY, BECAUSE MARX…

I’M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH LINE OF ARGUMENT YOU ARE PURSUING. YOU SEEM TO BE TRYING TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. PERHAPS I MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO DO. IF SO, I APOLOGIZE.

WHICH IS IT? FIRST YOU SAY MARX DID NOT GET SPECIFIC, AND NOW YOU SAY PEOPLE ARE CLAIMING HE DID.

THAT VERY VAGUENESS YOU DESCRIBE, FOR ONE THING. ALSO, IF HUMANS WERE NICE ENOUGH TO MAKE COMMUNISM WORK, YOU WOULD NOT NEED COMMUNISM.

I AM PLEASED NOT TO HAVE MET YOU.

AN ACTUAL COMMUNIST? THE PANELISTS WERE NOT WRONG TO BE SURPRISED AND DUBIOUS. MARX HAD INSIGHTFUL CRITICISMS OF CAPITALISM. HIS SOLUTIONS WERE NOT SO INSIGHTFUL.

THE LARCH.

FALLOUT 3 HAS A SECTION WHERE, IN ORDER TO GET OUT, YOU MUST RECREATE A SET OF MUSICAL TONES BY ACTIVATING ASSORTED OBJECTS IN A ROOM. IN A GAME WITH FEW REAL PUZZLES IT IS QUITE A SHOCK. THE INTERNET HAD TO COME TO THE RESCUE FOR ME.

I ASSUME THIS MEANS USING A GREAT DEAL OF STEALTH.

I WILL PARTIALLY RECYCLE AND ADD TO A COMMENT ON THE STAGE VERSION OF THIS I MADE ELSEWHERE: THE SHOW COMMITS MANY SINS OF PLOT AND STRUCTURE, THE PLACEMENT OF SOME SONGS BECOMES DISTINCTLY CREEPY, NARRATIVE THREADS ARE DROPPED OR IGNORED, AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SHOW, YOU BECOME AWARE THAT CATCHY AS THE TUNES ARE,…

DOGS HAVE IMPRESSIVE DIGESTIVE ABILITIES. THINGS THAT MIGHT KILL YOU (OR JUST WISH FOR ME) WILL ONLY GIVE THEM IMPRESSIVE FLATULENCE.

THE ORIGINAL MUSICAL IS ALSO NOT VERY GOOD, WITH SOME SONG CHOICES THAT ARE GENUINELY CREEPY GIVEN THEIR POSITION IN THE SHOW.BUT WITH THE RIGHT CAST AND PRODUCTION DECISIONS IT CAN HAVE A QUALITY NOT UNLIKE THAT OF A BAG OF KITTENS. THEY ARE POOPING EVERYWHERE AND TEARING UP THE FABRIC, BUT THEY ARE ALSO JUST SO CUTE.

THERE IS NO POINT IN MY READING THIS. I’LL JUST WANT TO THROW THINGS WHEN THEY INEVITABLY GET IT WRONG.

THIS...LOOKS GOOD.

IT’S NOT A BAD MOVIE.

CONTEXT WOULD SUGGEST THAT IT MEANS REPORTING THE SUSPECTED ABUSER TO THE PROPER LOCAL AUTHORITIES. BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO KNOW THAT FOR CERTAIN.