That’s good to know. I’ve definitely seen it growing past gaming in the past couple of years, and while this article feels more zeitgeist and speculative than born from actual evidence, it being mentioned as a partial replacement for twitter for some is something.

How long till Epic tries to buy Discord then?

I don’t know what to tell you—flawed as they were Bunk and even McNulty are generally perceived as good guys. More good than bad certainly. And again, the actual Bunk put someone innocent in jail.

I have no direct experience with process servers, but I have seen enough tv to know that they’re just messengers. It sucks, the end. It’s barely an insult, and definitely not an injury.

I don’t think people are coming away idolizing all Baltimore cops, but certainly most are left with good impressions of Bunk Moreland’s policing—there’s quite a long storyline about how he struggled for good evidence for the cases. He’s good police among the bad and lazy and the everyday. And to plot contortions of…

I wonder what the thought-processes for this one was, in terms of how different if different than creating the Wire and all that. So much of Simon’s police knowledge came embedded reporting, and while I certainly love the show, as Baltimore murder police including Bunk or Landsman rack up more exonerations in the…

Just one to mention that one of the little plots in the HK one with npcs revolved around drug use--and it was one of the best storylines I’ve encountered in games about it. Instead of powerup or bad, it drew an actual distinction between addiction and dependency.

I’m actually happy to see this—one post here among many other topics doesn’t move the register.

Index funds! Boring, but probably better in the long run.

Does Apex have gravity? I mean, it does, but like something to account in shooting? If not, it’s time to introduce it.

Crossover with the Chronicles of Riddick multiverse by bringing Dame Judy Dench.

Brick is a Vampire: The Masquerade LARP. I mean that...well, I’m not sure it’s a compliment but I liked it anyway.

I think you’re underselling anime a bit, but I generally agree. And like in the comics world that birthed some of the examples, more adult and violent stories popping up in animation makes the products “not for kids” but necessarily actually good. There’s a lot from Japan that’s great (I do love Yuasa and—hobbyhorse…

I can take it or leave it—leave it mostly since I finished the game—for me it’d take something away from the moments when you used up something and then have to switch up playstyles.

I do appreciate the calm of this discussion!

I hope this round of Me Too gains more ground in Japan, and the women fare well. It seems both disappointing and not surprising—I’ve been a fan of his work—and it’s strange, but that in the context of Japanese movies, his work while very male is often considered more feminist than the culture around it.

Lol—that’s so much shorter than anything I put out. Well said.

I don’t love the criticism that takes this tack often either—it’s often more reflexive than reflective, though I admit to being sympathetic in it’s sentiments. At the same time, maybe weirdly, I think this article was better about it than most on this and sister sites, so when this conversation thread started, frankly…

I do muddle a lot, sorry to say! That does sound better, but I did want to build off the “the film on its own terms” line, which I think comes out often unexamined.

Yes, yes it would be. Obviously, it doesn’t mean they would be insulted, but it’s not mysterious box of universalism. It’s not a nebulae forming of being observed. It’s own terms are the creator and the audience—the context is the terms. Isle of Dogs, and works like it, are directed at a non-Japanese audience, often…