This actually came up in a city I lived in when a temple displayed the traditional swastika, so it was relatively top of mind, even though it was a while back. I don’t think it affects their view of the symbol so much as it alarms people unfamiliar with any other context.

True.

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly right, I guess. It’s hard to find the right balance between the love of sharing knowledge and the intrinsic reward the ego provides.  For the record, eastern wisdom traditions are good at tackling conundrums like that.

I think it’s a shame that a part of another culture has been appropriated for a racist agenda.

You can make an argument that swastikas are not in themselves racist with a longer historical view, but this dude obviously isn’t trying to say that (and the mere fact that it’s angled makes it a Nazi swastika, not an Indic one, even without the rest of his horror show).

Vampire all the way here. The friends I have who play tabletop RPGs all prefer Werewolf, though. I mostly just read the books as a teenager and have not had a chance to play beyond Troika’s Bloodlines, but I still love the mythology.

Um, excuse me, that cat is clearly playing the Storyteller system, not D&D.

There’s obviously something about it that people are finding confusing, but my reading of it at first and then again at your urging is that he called Jewell a “heroic white man” who “managed to save a bunch of people” before being unfairly vilified.

I mean, he called it a memoir, which is not nothing... but it’s not everything, either. Most memoirs probably embellish the truth, if only changing proper nouns. How did he even get discovered? I didn’t read it, but a lot of recovery is a pretty inner experience, I’d think.

Yeah, I just meant that wanting that is so ridiculous on so many levels that somebody should have told him that there’s a way to handle the cell phones, at least, without making himself look like an idiot.

Somebody should have told him to just use that service that seals people’s phones in a bag before entering. We all understood when Hannibal Buress and others did that.

I think for a large portion of the population, never admitting you’re wrong is a deeply held virtue. It’s the worst thing about us as humans. I was a “why?” kid with “rule number one: because I said so” father figures (step and otherwise), though, so I’m disdainful of that sort of behavior generally.

I guessed it!

My distaste dates back to the late 90s, and I had no idea at the time that he had possibly molested Dylan. I only knew that he had married his adopted daughter, and I was a kid with a Blockbuster card who couldn’t see past it to really enjoy Annie Hall.

Also, a zealous defense of freedom of speech, but that’s dishearteningly rare these days outside of right-wing nutjobs.

What does “that’s not productive” mean, in this case?  You seem reasonable, and I get it.  But he married a girl who was at the very least his stepdaughter.  That is more than creepy, if not legally actionable.  I see no reason to avoid discouraging actors from working with him on that basis alone.

That is why they should have run for the hills a lot sooner, though.

Look, I’m not saying that he molested his other adopted daughter, though I see no reason to disbelieve Dylan, personally. I think there is a middle ground where we recognize that somebody can’t be prosecuted, but when the established facts are already that he married his adopted daughter, there’s really no reason to…

I mean, Mia Farrow and Dylan Farrow equals accusations. I’m actually somewhat inclined to defend Goldblum on this, on the basis of a presumption of innocence, but this opinion is stupid.

It’s more like this is the 10th article I’ve read that mentioned him recently. I take your point, though. I probably should’ve posted it on the one that initially made me think it, regarding his supposed retirement.