Oh, now we’re coming in with the fallacies! But, I mean, all you have to do is look at my post history to realize that’s preposterous.

I’m not sure what else there was to say initially. The thesis was right there. It literally contextualized what the article was about.

Poorly framed? Sure. But her argument is literally “People use this to justify misogyny in Game of Thrones. This is why that argument doesn’t hold water”. Seriously, that’s the text, and it largely exists as the ability to convey a history lesson.

Maybe you think the point that she’s refuting is silly (she clearly does…

This isn’t a “gotcha” article about what Game of Thrones “got wrong”. It’s literally just “Let’s use this pop cultural thing as a springboard to talk about history!”.

No. You didn’t point out why her argument is bullshit.

You turned an exercise in historical learning, one contextualized around the Game of Thrones universe, into an excuse to call the writer wrong. There is no “wrong” here unless she gets the facts about life in the Middle Ages wrong, because her arguments were

1) This…

No. My point is that the author’s argument is “This is a popular conception. Here’s why it’s wrong”.

That is a perfectly valid transition into what’s essentially an “Isn’t that neat” historical discussion that uses a pop culture phenomenon to draw readers in.

As for the general sexism of the Game Of Thrones world, criticism on that front has been met with a standard response when critiquing mistreatment of women: a shrug and a “Well, it’s historically accurate for the Middle Ages.” Game Of Thrones, as the most popular pop culture offering drawing heavily from Middle Age…

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Yeah. I mean, the context of visual language changes over time, and that’s always been the case. Just look at the once ubiquitous montage.

And action movies have long had a reputation for doing some really silly shit with a straight face.

Huh.

Was your comment funny on purpose?

Seconded. I used to work at a Greek pizza place (one of many pizza joint I worked at), and our tool of choice was what was basically a machete. The blade was at least a foot long, so one rock of it against a medium pizza was all it needed. Unless you were dealing with an especially floppy pizza or a 16 incher, you…

He’s principled, which, in the context of Washington, makes him a rarity. And that makes it easy to think there’s something conspiratorial at play. But he’s always seemed like the type of dude who sticks to his guns.

That said, I don’t think that’s inherently a virtue. Few Republicans are principled, but few Democrats…

I don’t think anyone has had strong feelings about Moby for years. Hell, most of us probably haven’t ever had strong feelings about Moby. But then he released a memoir that made him seem like a really creepy and insecure dude, and we all laughed.

To conservatives, perhaps, framing it as an issue of choice, and creating a parallel to gun rights and taxation might help persuade the more libertarian crowd? I haven’t had any success on that front yet, but it’s been more readily received than other arguments at least.

The most frequent pushback I get is that the…

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Cis male, pro-choice supporter, and Georgia resident. Apart from protesting, reaching out to my representatives, spreading information on the legislation and means to protecting yourself, and acting the role of bulldog in social media spaces where the fanatics come out of the woodwork, I’m not sure what all I can do.…

I can’t wait for the extended universe movie that digs into the origins of why Walter Peck has no dick. Maybe they’ll set the groundwork here as a way of teasing the film.

Exactly this! You have someone on staff who’s being paid next to nothing to basically do what you don’t have time to or don’t want to do. More often than not, whatever monetary pay they get is barely enough to cover the necessities of maintaining the internship. The real currency they’re dealing with is in experience…

Interplay’s old Lord of the Rings games for PC absolutely got the shaft here. They weren’t perfect, but they were complex little RPGs that captured the breadth of world and the sense of discovery that’s so crucial to the franchise.

Shadow of Mordor was a fun game with some really interesting systems, but it sometimes felt more like a proof of concept than a game in and of itself.

But I think the point most salient to this article is that it didn’t really feel like a Lord of the Rings game to me. It felt like an interesting concept with some LotR…

If you treat it with the right amount of camp and levity, I could see it working. If you try to go grimy and realistic.... probably not so much.