I played it and felt it was clumsy. Plus the narrative was not great. And of course being called Alone in the Dark didn’t help at all, seeing how it had nothing to do with it.

Thinking of eventually rolling that back, or...? Because I see why that’s appealing, especially early on when compatibility was worse, and I would still dual boot if allowed, but having Windows as the default isn’t great at the moment.

Yeah, I’m aware of that option, too. Such a hassle, though, especially for a feature that Valve said was going to be supported at launch and in theory should still materialize at some point.

I did boot Windows from a USB SSD at one point, just to see how Windows runs on the platform and the answer is... poorly.

Wait, how are you doing that? External storage? Did you move Steam OS to a card? Or are you booting Windows from one and acknowledging that it’ll die quickly and you’ll just get another one? Or did Steam stealth update their firmware to finally allow this and I just didn’t notice?

Yeah, that was why it stood out to me. They clearly got sensitive business data redacted but they left the lawyer’s full contact info in there.

Hah. That’s actually a decent point, though, people complained about the cast being white and the action being relocated to a US high school setting, right?

I hear a lot of these arguments when I raise similar issues, and there are some weird tropes of US-centrism in them that baffle me.

Yeah, like I said elsewhere, you can’t really “hear” race or skin color or any of those things in most of the world. Regional origin sure, and sometimes that correlates, but definitely nothing like what you’re describing. And yeah, I get why it ended up like that in the US. So yeah, all the weirdness and implicit…

In this case it all just seems to be the metadata of the email of whoever sent this, which includes a signature with links to social media and a phone number and everything. I would have guessed the actual document would be sent, stored and archived separately from the email, but what do I know.

For those interested in what the thing is actually trying to say and can’t quite read the original document or be bothered to parse the machine translation, here’s the gist.

I get it, but what I’m saying is that the assumption that people on TV are “like you” or like your local majority group if they act “normal” or have the POV is itself cultural. Us here in the US’s cultural colonies where a majority of our media is imported do not make that assumption nearly as much. You may not…

See, it’s fun to hate on the guy because apparently he’s quite douchey, but? Does he? I mean, he’s been doctoring scripts, uncredited, for as long as he’s been working. His credits include a lot of “non-Whedon-esque” stuff. He certainly took a particular stylized action-comedy style of dialogue and hit the jackpot…

And to further prove the point, when you say “people” in this case you mean “Americans”. Because obviously the default person description you provide there is not true everywhere. And in some places where most media is imported, like where I’m from, the assumption is that stories are about other people, unless you’re…

I mean, you’re digging way too deep, this happens halfway through the first series:

Yeeeeah, we don’t get “people of different ethnic backgrounds sound different”, either. That’s not a thing. You can’t tell a peson’s race, skin color, whatever you want to call it, by the way they sound. To be clear, you can’t tell in most places where there isn’t an active, generations-long effort towards aggressive…

Right? Every time I hear this stuff called “Whedonesque” I can’t help but feel they should show some respect to Keith Giffen, who was nailing the same exact schtick a whole decade in advance. Whedon has been doing off-brand JLI this whole time.

That seems like something that should be more prominent in cultural critique then? Maybe? Because let me tell you, that wasn’t and isn’t the assumption in the rest of the world. There are plenty of more ethnically homogeneous places that don’t make that leap at all. Not that cartoons happen locally unless specified…

Yeah, I am aware of the reference.

A whole bunch of problems did start with European colonialism, all I’m saying is this is one of them. A lot of this defaulting of people to white people and the notion that people’s ancestry sticks to them indefinitely through generations or that skin color is how ethnicity and culture are determined... all that is…

Hah, in that context Power Rangers comes before Dragon Ball, huh? Had never thought of that, that’s super weird. And of course, in PR they do recast everything to be in a US setting. We got Ultraman on TV (with the original cast and dubbed, obviously) before Power Rangers even started. Even as a teen at the time I got…