This is exactly my point. I have done work on game creation and I would not be happy with it.

Because more often than not, the Doctor’s response to Graham is what happens, more or less. Someone lays some heavy shit on you and you don’t have an answer. Maybe you will later. Maybe you won’t. The show left that open ended, and such is life. And again, sometimes just acknowledging that you heard that person is…

Did they have to respond after this as well?

The idea the Doctor is “socially awkward” is complete bullshit. Even the new the new one, she is absolutely an extrovert.

they weren’t playing the end of that episode for laughs

I don’t think it misses the mark at all. It was, in fact, on the mark. Too many TV shows and movies always seem to have the magical answer for the character who needs it. That is not the case in real life. This episode clearly showed that there is no magical answer that makes everything better. A show about a space…

Agreed. Thirteen has been indicating more and more since Spyfall that her equilibrium is shattered, she’s trying to work through the fallout of The Master, Gallifrey, a mystery regeneration, the timeless child, the lone cyberman...she’s got a lot on her plate, and she’s trying to navigate how to transition from being…

This is similar to my take. Thirteen is standing there talking to a companion who has faced his fear and shown he’s big enough to admit it. There’s a hint that she didn’t confront her fear and has been dodging it for several episodes. She can’t talk to Graham about his fear because she can’t talk about her own.

Open Question: How much of the backlash and response is related to sexism and assumed gender roles?

See, I didn’t even get the comedic vibe from it; I didn’t get a read that Thirteen was being flip, there was a nervousness there. Barring any reveals later in the season my theory is that the Doctor’s new identity crises have unmoored her enough to make her build up a personal wall between her and the TimeFam. 

Give him a break, eating that boot is the only chance at a dinner break he’s gonna get while in crunch.

I think the question that I have about it is if they’re also trading off a shorter, more soul-sucking version of crunch for a longer but more manageable version.

To summarize an old post of mine, Gamers were never to really prepared to have their hobby *actually* treated like the form of art they always kept shouting that it was. They’re art when it needs to be protected, but they’re mindless toys come time to examine them.

>> The problem was never women in video games - the problem was men in video games seeing women in video games (again, playing, speaking about, etc.).

Barry Hughart, who wrote the Master Li and Number Ten Ox novels, died earlier in August. Not surprisingly, pretty much nobody noticed, since he hadn’t written a word in almost 30 years.

I’d like to pour out a box of Milk and Honey Original Café Mix in honor of Deadspin

Unfortunate.

Eh, trolling was trolling until they became mobs of jackasses who banded together to cause real damage to people’s lives. I miss the olden days when a troll just pissed you off and you could laugh it away. Now it’s like they set economic policy.

You mean harassing people online isn’t the same as me saying dumb shit to annoy people in the Yahoo Chat religion channel 20 years ago?

People did NOT know better in 2001. LOL