That’s what I mean, the organizational failures are governmental in nature. The unspoken thing here, and I don’t have any special knowledge into how PAX works specifically, is that conventions are negotiated years in advance. There’s financial investment and involvement and insurance in the eight figure territory at a…

As many people have clarified already, before you were admitted to the building at all, you have to go through security. That’s a metal detector and a bag check, and for your first entry of the day, your vaccine card is checked and you’re given a wristband if and only if you can produce that vaccine card.

As a PAX Enforcer this is obviously tragic news. I would like to urge people in the comments to refrain from blaming this person, a real person who is now dead, for her illness and death.

Yeah, and the eating areas were very specifically designated, you couldn’t just eat anywhere, which in theory at least would let people who didn’t want to be around unmasked people to avoid them.

No, that’s not why. It really is just that Tycho from Penny Arcade is a weirdo and thought it would be a cool name for the show volunteers.

I can say as a PAX Enforcer, albeit one who wasn’t at this show, masking was enforced extremely strictly among and by show staff. I can honestly say no one working the show was anything less than 100% on board with masking requirements.

She was, the show itself has a mandate and show staff are subject to that mandate as well.

APA, MLA, AP, every major style guide has endorsed the use of the singular they. You’re fighting a battle that’s not only losing, it’s lost, it’s been conceded, and there’s no one left on the losing side because they all admitted they were wrong.

Yeah, Legion and Kasumi are the other valid option that will always succeed in the vents. Samara/Jack for the biotic bubble, Garrus/Jacob/Miranda/Zaeed are valid choices for the sub-team, and whoever you send back with the civilians will always survive.

I feel like “Youtuber, disgraced journalist and serial sexual predator Nick Robinson” would be a more accurate line, here. I don’t ascribe malice to not bringing that up, but please don’t help him launder his reputation.

Nah, dude’s still low-key a fascist, though he’s moved his MAGA hat to the blurry background of his streaming setup now.

Cops are not an identity group, they’re a profession. It is impossible to commit a “micro-aggression” against someone for being a fucking cop. They have made a choice to become instruments of state violence and racist oppression and deserve all the scorn and mockery that they get for that.

I was at PAX East 2020, which I’d now consider to be the last safe show, it wrapped up just before shit really hit the fan in the US, and the next week Boston had its first superspreader event, ironically enough at a medical conference. Needless to say I’m not opposed in general to attending conventions.

That’s just it: small communities. Size is the key. Once a certain critical mass is reached, the fandom collapses inward into toxicity and recrimination over mutually irreconcilable opinions over what the thing actually is. And it doesn’t take that many people to do this. The larger a fandom, the more vocal, the more…

Ehhh... Kind of. Like the original, it’s heavily invested in a sort of liberal “No really what we need are more Good Cops”. It’s frustrating, the game comes very close to getting the bigger picture in many ways, only to inevitably fail to make the broader point. It will explore all the ways the police are corrupt and…

I’ve got my issues with Lin-Manuel Miranda and his particular brand of relentlessly cloying positivity that he defines himself by online it seems, and I wasn’t that enthusiastic to revisit Hamilton when my mother wanted to watch it with me recently.

Great, now I’m gonna be thinking about Knack’s knock for the rest of the day.

Worth noting that if you break all nine of the Umbral Beast’s shield tiles you can interrupt the cast of Umbral Surge and attack with impunity for a little while. I found this to be the most effective method of dealing with it.

I’m of several minds. On the one hand, I don’t think she’s wrong. Not completely right, perhaps, but justified in her attitude. I also don’t think she’s helping, either helping the Democratic Party, the broader effort to defeat Trump, OR even a narrower effort to thwart Bernie Sanders. Seriously, I don’t see a world…

Notwithstanding all the other reasons why this is horseshit, the devil has enough advocates already, don’t you think?