Works great until the game wants you to use motion controls for something.

Why do swingers all have to be Roger Stone instead of the Smiths? We need a better public face!

There’s a speech Gillian Anderson gives in The Fall about how problematic it is to call a victim “innocent”. In the context of the show, her main complaint is “but what if the next victim is a prostitute”, but I think it applies here too. Comparing and contrasting the relative innocence of unarmed shooting victims is…

Hey, you talking about me there? I guess tone is difficult to communicate via text alone, but the central theme of all my posts was “this is confusing and I don’t really understand it”, while also being really clear about how small my sample size was.

I think it was this one:

Well he’s from near Isfahan if I recall correctly. He may have been a grouch, but he’s the best cook I’ve ever met. I lived with him for three Persian New Years, and those were the best three meals of my life bar none.

Eh? Scots and Welsh are certainly British. They’re not English, of course. All three of those nations occupy the island of Great Britain, so their nationals are British.

I had no idea that Nineveh and Mosul were the same place! Anyway, in the English speaking world it’s mostly known for this. I’m from Ireland, so my pronunciation of Iran is closer to (but not the same as) the Farsi one, when compared to Americans at least.

In the original story (from a 1704 translation of Arabian Nights by Frenchman Antoine Galland - it’s not found in any earlier Arabic version), Aladdin is “from one of the cities of China”. So really we should be looking for a Chinese actor if we want to stay legit!

Too old. Let’s get Tom Holland instead

By some statistical anomaly, I manage to get this wrong almost every time. I had a Persian roommate in college, who got very insulted when I would use the term “Iranian” around him. So I started using the term “Persian” instead. Now my wife’s best friend has parents from Iran too, and she was insulted when I used the…

Original FFXII was the one that convinced me I was done with the franchise.

There’s no pleasing some people.

So “Tremendous” that it convinced me to never again buy a Final Fantasy game.

These two lines in the same letter would seem contradictory then.

I think there’s more pressure to change, the worse things are. So, countries like Germany, which were among the first to give any rights at all to gay couples, don’t feel as much impetus to change things as countries that still had no rights at all.

I think one reason the OscarSoWhite thing worked relatively well was that it speaks directly to the quality of the industry’s output. If all the stories being told are the same kinds of story, that’s boring. If they’re about the same kinds of people, that’s boring too. I know this is an awards thing and not a “which…

So this film is going to show Barnum not only as a non-villain, but also as a champion of the different? Ballsy move.

KH is one of the finest example of “stupid writing, fun gameplay” I can think of. I felt dumber for every line of spoken dialogue, but the core mechanics were just so solid that I didn’t care.

Sony is the publisher, so it stands to reason it’d be exclusive.