It’s on the strength of The Council’s reception that I’ve been tracking this. Visual novels are a good medium to translate into, but I do want a game with a little more flex. I’m looking forward to this.

I think a key point to highlight is that both teams will have identical terms for commercial and ticketing revenues. I’m guessing that’ll be pooled like prize money is pooled then? It would make sense to me since equity is the principle operating here.

Yes.

Sportwise, I’m mostly a soccer watcher, and it’s been interesting to see arguments for equal pay for the women’s national team evolve from the players themselves, fans, and media coverage—the latter probably being differentiated between business or sports outlets vs culture outlets like this one. It used begin and end…

I’m conflicted about what the American public can do in a situation like this—political hostage taking isn’t visibly influenced by public pressure, but I appreciate these posts reminding people that this is happening.

So many writers beyond Jezebel even open discussion about WNBA salaries with these players needing to go elsewhere. I think they could be paid more even in the model the league is pursuing now, but need? I don’t think they’re greedy for going either, it’s a good deal if you’re good enough.

Yes, it does count, but it can also be indicative of the barriers and nuances of what race and identity is in culture. This is easiest to see in terms of how colorism affects casting, but also a few months ago there was an essay about how many non-Jewish women were playing Jewish women roles, and a lot of immediate…

Except you can transport guns across state lines--this is a federal issue. Gun control works but it’s effect is mitigated by the mish mash of laws--same with drug laws. And you set the line at “solve this problem”, maybe not, but if you set the line at “make it a lot less uncommon”, well, likely.

The media definition is not set in stone, but the primary ones seem to be 3 killed in one or multiple locations close to one another. They don’t have to be all the same shooter. I’m not sure how it’d count deaths and injuries in defense or law enforcement. It used to be 4.

No, this level of popularity is very much tied to the fact it continues to inspire new fans.

I enjoy the occasional Tom Cruise movie—the finest cinematic running guy ever—and I do think he reaches a standard of fun blockbuster most of the time, but this one leaves me bored just looking at the dots on the trailer. “We’re the best of the best? Who can they get to train us?” Whoever came before you? With actual…

I’ll be honest, I don’t think I’m up to it with Papa Lazarou in there. Intent isn’t quite powerful enough a thing to erase what it is. To be honest, considering the long history of minstrelsy in the UK, I’m dubious about them not knowing what they were trafficking in (and therefore not caring) or deeply ignorant.

I suppose it’s possible that someone in the UK where they had The Black and White Minstrel Show run until 1978 didn’t intend it to be the golliwog, but it’s the golliwog. There’s a lot of racism without “intent”, sure, though this strains credulity for me.

Oh no. It’s something that I sometimes think I imagined, but looks like things can still be obscure even now. It was a “sitcom” about a small English village that distrusts everyone not local—and almost all the characters are the same actors in makeup so that’s what made me think of it while watching the Men trailer. …

As someone who thinks the skrulls as refugees was the best part of Captain Marvel (go watch Sugar!), Marvel’s corporate but audience oriented conservatism seems more effective at giving indy directors chances at movies than years of other studio execs trusting their guts mostly picking people they already know, and…

Darktide looks fun!

So I haven’t read this because I want to see the movie with as clean a slate as possible, but I also want to say that the trailer reminded me of The League of Gentlemen. There’s probably less comedy in this movie, but I’ve long since learned to fear the British countryside.

It looks better than I thought it would and kind of fun—but I look forward to Akira Kurosawa inspiring games beyond the visuals of some of his period movies, and embrace the moral complexity from them sometime. Rashomon seems like a gimme actually for someone to try.

There could be underlying conditions that we don’t know about.

Sustainable, best practice, to what degree and mixture etc is all debatable, definitely, but “mostly pointless’ is quite a leap. Very few places where super strict—something noted right from the beginning, but also notable, they worked. They did flatten the curve, ease pressure on resources in hard hit places, and…