Not to mention that there are FIVE leads and they’re ALL women. Six of the top 10 billed names on IMDB are minorities (including two “asians”), and six are women. This is a remarkably diverse cast, and while I very much understand the concerns about whitewashing, this feels a bit like splitting hairs...

I believe, and I wouldn’t quote me on this one either, but the first book hadn’t even gone to print when Garland started adapting it, so you can see how the second one was probably a ways off.

And I would forgive you for not taking the word of someone on the internet, period. As for my avatar, I don’t know if I would…

How about “It doesn’t matter for the story.” If this many people have read the books (including me) and had no idea she was Asian, then IT DOESN’T MATTER to the story and could have been left out.

The second book hadn’t even been written when Garland started adapting the first book. So it’s possible he did ask the author, and the author had no idea because he hadn’t gotten around to fleshing that part out yet.

I felt like his lack of descriptors about the characters, particularly in the first book, was intentional. They weren’t even properly named for the audience—we only knew them by their titles (‘Biologist,’ ‘Psychologist,’ etc.).

no, according to others online (here and elsewhere, but I can’t verify with the book itself) that line comes from the sequel (which did not exist when the screenplay was written).

First of all, the screenplay was adapted while only the first book existed and the other two were not yet written (Source, about halfway down).

Mireille Chevalier said she happily attended Atari’s hot tub parties and went on dates with colleagues. “Nolan was never, ever bothering me,” she said. “If a woman wanted to go out with Nolan, it was their business. It was never pressure. I went out with one of the directors for 10 years.”

Just because those sort of actions were acceptable in the 70s doesn’t mean that they were good.

“The man himself has admitted that his behavior at the time could have offended people”

Do you know the dictionary definition of bigot, by the way? It’s someone who is intolerant of others’ ideas.

1. If you have anything good or meaningful to say, it’s going to piss SOMEone off. Doesn’t matter how or when you say it - somebody out there thinks it shouldn’t be said at all. That’s just a product of living in a diverse society. Do you let them silence you? Or do you shrug and say “tough titties”? There really is…

Years later, when she heard the cheers again, something clicked. I get it, she thought. I know how this could be intimidating to someone who’s not me. Kocurek considered how the cheers could make her Southern Baptist friend or her Muslim friend feel unwelcome, like the college wasn’t a comfortable place for them to…

It’s “Believe women unless they’re old and disagree”.

This is the gentlest assassination I’ve ever seen, like a marshmallow fired from a sniper rifle. 90% of the article shows examples of how he hired and promoted women, gave them opportunities they wouldn’t have gotten elsewhere and treated them better than they would be anywhere else until he left the company and they…

Remember guys(and a lot of you are reading this through the lens of today, rather than back in the 1970's).

Even to the Twitter crowd, “believe women” only applies in specific situations.

So, surprising nobody, listening to a twitter mob of people who weren’t even there at the time wasn’t a good idea.

It should also be noted that Bushnell met his wife in late 76 and were married a year later. This past November they celebrated their 40th anniversary. He may have played the part of a 70s swinger, but at best I think it was aspirational. He deserved the GDC award, and in a few years when they offer it to him again,…

I think the point was to say he had a tendency to push how wild and crazy Atari was over everything else which gave people the impression he was worse than he may have actually been. Basically, it’s a strange scenario where his words spoke louder than actions.