Because SXSW are assholes about that sort of thing.

ESTA will only cover "amateur" performances. A band with 40k facebook likes would probably not get in even in the best of circumstances. And when there's high-profile shows that charge cover on the schedule, they're sure as hell not going to let ESTA cover it.

Not probably, definitely. There are plans on the internet.

Soon to be the site of a zillion terrible band photos…

Sting had numerous attempts, each more ill-fated than the last. There was the downright odd "Brimstone and Treacle" where he was…Satan? I think? Who molests a girl in a coma. Uh…

I've watched Fear of a Black Hat many, many times, and since the release of Straight Outta Compton it's only seemed funnier.

Yolandi. Damn autocorrect.

Someone pointed out to me that Conaway's outfit was most famously also worn by…Yolanda from Die Antwoord.

"Quadrilogy" is a word that Fox made up to sell the Aliens films, because apparently nobody left at the studio could be bothered to look up "tetralogy."

What about VVitchcraft? Is that still a thing?

I've heard the director's cut is hard-R, tho.

Oh, most definitely, it does not legitimize shitty behavior. I'm just more than anything upset that he seems to be getting a pass on his own shitty behavior because shitlords are shitlording all over him, and annoyed that other arguably more terrible shitlording got mostly ignored or laughed off because the…

If you check out the National Human Trafficking Resource Center and look over their "recognizing signs" list it ticks a distressing number of boxes. Not all of them, certainly, but enough of them to be really unsettling. Lack of freedom of movement, unpaid, false promises, submissive behavior, control over health,…

Probably because it never *really* was about ethics in game journalism; that was merely a dodge. The allegations made against Quinn that kicked everything off were false from the start.

True.

Perhaps we have different social media feeds; my experience with Gamergate was a number of my friends and acquaintances getting nasty threats and a collective shrug from the media, save for a few blogs I read expressing outrage (and a maddeningly "fair" piece on NPR). Whereas this seems to already have a lot more…

…and rereading THAT it'S probably still not clear. I am just a firehouse of poorly directed disgust on many levels today.

No, and I apologize for not being clearer, I'm not arguing that it's only possible to condemn one or the other. I'm saying i'm pretty disgusted that all sorts of shitlordery on a much more vile scale went on for years with much less popular interest or sympathy, and a lot more victim blaming.

If that is indeed the case, then I sympathize, because that is awful.

The best part of the whole clip is Billy Bush fawning over the "Surprise" appearance of Doc Ice.