“Dear government of Malaysia: If you really wanted $2.7 million from me, you shouldn’t have let me leave the country”. 

 Can you imagine having this guy at your table? Oof.

You’re almost certainly right, and that’s been the widely accepted narrative ever since he left the show, but I would make a very, very slight caveat that there might be more to the story than we’ve been previously told.

I mean, if Lizzo has done the things people says she has, something should be done about it. This is going beyond a difference of opinion and into actual sexual harassment.

That hardly describes me, but I definitely knew who she was even back then. Lizzo I feel I’ve only been aware of for a few years at best.

So here’s the thing... I’m not a court of law. I am under no requirement to consider anyone as innocent until proven guilty. The only guideline I need to follow is “good enough to me.” Give me some investigative and subpoena power and I might reconsider.

We might also have to redefine “breakthrough.” Grimes was absolutely huge with the Pitchfork crowd and absolutely deserved to be. “Visions” is a fantastic album. But there’s a big difference between being big with Pitchfork, indie bloggers, and would-be Brooklyn residents to being Beyonce-style big. 

The eternal refrain of the moron: “they were cool to me, it can’t be possible they were monstrous somewhere else”

No you are correct. Her album Visions and the track “Oblivion” were her breakout moment. In fact, everything she’s done since then has been incredibly diminishing returns, so maybe what she’s stating here is that she’s never been popular enough to cancel?

I’m not super familiar with Grimes’ career, but wasn’t she already sort of established by 2012? Or at least more established than Lizzo. I feel like I knew of Grimes well before Lizzo. Wikipedia says Grimes had three albums by 2012, including her breakthrough, while Lizzo released her first solo album in 2013 but…

Grimes has no credibility on anything

it should probably be emphasized Japanese fans (and elsewhere for that matter) are also pretty mad about this debacle. too many outsiders are trying to frame this as westerners being upset about anime not having representation (though, actually, people have been giving this show a lot of praise for its representation,…

I think the dancers felt that they would be a step behind if they didn’t go to the strip club. Simply inviting your employees to a strip club outing is absolutely not cool, if my boss did that I’d be hunting for a new job quickly.  It’s especially bad when you’re overseas working for a very famous person in a highly…

I think the religious manager stuff is the most surprising, the strip club thing seems very on brand for her.

Correct, the mod was not used by either of the players but instead by the spectator user that was streaming the match.

I think the real shock is the tonal dissonance between her female-friendly sex and body positivity messaging and this.

I’m thinking, based on “it was our hosts PC streaming the match and his responsibility”, that the PC with the mod was just spectating and streaming the match (essentially a middleman for outside spectators), and so the only mods that could apply would be visual in nature.

True but you can’t argue the whiplash here isn’t severe. If you’d described the situation to me and asked me to guess who, she’d have been way, WAY down the list.  The strip club stuff is insane.

This definitely wasn’t on my bingo card.

The most unrealistic thing about this game might be the cookbook. Brown moms keep all their recipes in their heads, and will never measure out anything. If they’re not eyeballing the amount of rice flour or hot chili peppers, than it’s not authentic Tamil cuisine. :)