This is very well done, thank you for it. Those of us who stand behind free speech need to recognize that the greatest threat against it isn’t political correctness or college students, but corporate power.

Kings Quest 3. Knowing that you were on a timer, and that he’d killed you if you took too long, was terrifying to me.

this one’s real

Was asked flat-out in academic job interviews if I was gay twice. I was asked if I had kids, in a much more casual way, at least a half-dozen times on the academic job market. Both are illegal.

Isn’t there a chance that the show could critique American racism by demonstrating that the world of a Confederate victory and the world of today wouldn’t really be that different?

That’s exactly what I want.

See, one part of being a useful member of an actual-existing political movement is that you should front the needs of that movement over petty personal shit. I am not interested in your social favor or in being popular with people like you. I am interested in a left movement that can win. Are you on board, or are you…

Sooner or later people should put a demo together against this kind of scumbag. Bet we could get lots of NYC labor and activism groups to come out for a picket line.

I enjoyed it, but I thought the stealth sections were unnecessary and not in the Wolfenstein spirit. I generally feel like almost all FPS games now shoehorn in stealth segments and I often find them superfluous or contrary to the overall spirit of the game.

A “we’re moving in a new direction” post that isn’t “pivoting to video” makes me happy.

That picture’s disturbing as shit, Ethan.

The only thing I want changed in the podcast is I want a little of the horn in the outro, like a little horn stab as a callback to the line in the beginning.

What this comment says about the degree to which Germany was de-Nazified, and its claims that there is no lingering pro-Nazi propaganda or iconography in the country, is just completely wrong and quite dangerous. Nazism retains a great deal of quiet influence in the country and there is a large and disquieting…

Jordan was a legitimate All Star his first Wizards year! He average 20 ppg!

This stuff is too complicated. Part of the point if USB was that it was simple. (You know, universal serial bus?) Why are we inflicting the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 confusion on ordinary people?

Clearly lots of people responding to Bourdain don’t know that.

See I would say that this essay is an object lesson in the kind of toxicity that’s inevitable when you get too invested in something. A video game should not be seen as a portal to exploring human empathy in the way you describe. When you assign any art this kind of outsized emotional importance you’re inevitably…

It’ll be just like my life in academia!

by Mark Twain