Oh stop. Your own government collects just as much data on you from your phones in a daily basis. But because its China oooh scary.

Given the option between China or Kotick having my data, I would choose China every time.

Hmmm... I think the Ginger Snaps movies should at least count as bi.

But yeah, offhand, I can’t really think any other specifically gay werewolf movies. (Obviously, I’m not counting movies like Werewolf Within that have gay supporting characters who are neither werewolf nor protagonist)

Can we at least shit on Secret Invasion?

It is fascinating to me that we in the west somehow seem to think authoritarianism only exists in those other countries. As if time and time again we don’t see that when the people want real change, all of these governments will be as authoritarian as it needs to quell that desire and to maintain its power

Every NFT is overvalued by 100%.

Yes. A $59,000 valuation is almost equally absurd. That’s the price of a car. This JPEG tied to some extra code, that does nothing, required little effort to make, and only exists digitally has no business being worth $1.3M or $59k.

You’re confusing/conflating weather with climate. Yes, they’re connected, but they’re not the same. Weather is like a dog on the end of the leash, going wherever the leash allows. Climate is the one holding the leash. Climate is heading towards ever increasing atmospheric energy. Weather is a product of that energy.…

Exactly.

People are looking at the gaming industry and comparing it to other industries and potential monopolies in those, and they’re forgetting one very important distinction: production differentiation (or the lackthereof).

One of the issues with monopolies in other industries is that you’re often talking about…

First off, economics was my 2nd major at university, so let’s get that out of the way before you talk yourself out of the conversation.

Please explain to me why the FUCK it’s YET AGAIN a woman’s responsibility to speak out instead of...I don’t know...the dude at the center of the shit-show???

As someone born in the UK may I say with the utmost disrespect… go fuck yourselves. 

It’s a valid comparison, because both are, regardless of what people want to think, just how somebody is. People don’t chose to be a pedophile just as they don’t choose to be gay.

The problem is the arguments for why it is a “bad” comparison are also true.

A better headline for this story would have been “Kylie’s thoughts on Simu Liu, explained”. But she didn’t really manage to do that, either. Is Jez hiring? I think I’m ready to begin my career in navel gazing up my own asshole.

What backlash? A few people on Twitter making snide comments isn’t “backlash” that needs to be explained with an obnoxiously sensational headline.

I grew up with a super-judgemental, narcissistic, Asian mom. My wife and I are both Asian American. We always laugh at Simu’s “you can’t ever please your Asian parents” twitter jokes because they hit close to home. Is it an over-played stereotype? Yes but nearly all of my Asian friends have dealt with it to some…

“...when an entire industry just decides to crown a single person of color as their go-to token of representation for that community”

Just to make sure I understand, the controversies are:

What on earth is this article? You say it’s steeped in assault allegations and then it turns out to be a throwaway line at the very end where it turns out two (2!%) of the (unnamed) contestants have allegations against them. Is that even higher than the average at all?

It has literally nothing to do with the show, or…

Hah, Kotick’s a bit late - the UK is a death valley already. If anything, we have a shortage of valleys to die in.