I would normally fall into the former camp, and indeed I had been complacent in this state of mind until Wednesday morning, but I genuinely think the latter is a real possibility. It will take a lot of work to lead the US down a path of authoritarianism, since the system is largely set up to prevent it, but it is not…

Absolutely. Part of what had me so shocked by the results, I assume, was the social bubble I've created around myself. I've been connecting with my friends on social media out of a sense of needing to support each other and make sense of this, and it'll be a critical organizing tool in the future, but at the moment…

It's been a terrible week, so I'm having a hard time engaging with any especially demanding culture. Luckily, I've got The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and it's so lovely. The art direction is among the best I've seen in the medium of games - leveraging watercolor aesthetics for a depth of field effect was a great…

Agreed. I saw Zootopia a couple weeks ago and really liked it, but I suspect one of it's issues as a piece of art may be that it seemed to be a story and characters created in service to a message, rather than vice versa. It's message was excellent, and I think the movie ought to be in wide circulation for its…

Yup, that's a reasonable response to a world gone mad (I'm not being sarcastic). I'm torn on my response to this - on the one hand, I am having a hard time disassociating from news and friends online, but on the other hand, much of what I've read has just made the sting worse. What I am trying to do, similar to your…

I wish this was the case, but the comments by this user elsewhere on this article suggest otherwise. That said, it's definitely best to give someone the benefit of the doubt in the absence of other evidence.

Something happening frequently does not make it OK. We should rightly be horrified at intimidation, and treat it accordingly as something to be punished.

You are almost terrifying in your ignorance. Is feminism something to be hidden or ridiculed. To be fair, until this week I had (naively) thought that we were collectively on the same page with regard to respect for women being a shared cultural value.

Well it wasn't wrong, as those folks are rapidly proving…

We don't need you here. I suspect there is a 4chan comment thread awaiting your presence?

Suddenly the difficulty and general inscrutability of that game makes sense. That's what I get for introducing myself to it on an emulator back in 2002.

I've actually, for the first time, used the "Notes" section of the 3DS features recently (in working out the mechanics of the item-trading minigame in Zelda: Oracle of Seasons). It's a nice throwback to the note section of manuals, which I'd always thought was pretty funny. If memory serves, the only time I ever used…

Ohoho, I'm tempted to buy a copy just for that redonkulous cover.

I tried to get one yesterday exclusively for the purpose of reselling, but each of the stores I went to had sold out (ideally to people who were actually seeking the console, not speculators like myself). If it makes any difference, I was hoping to undercut the price gouging by buying at $60 then selling for $150, low…

Hear, hear. I'm just this side of a Nintendo apologist, as the only modern consoles I own (aside from a decent PC) are a Wii U and a 3DS, but I'll be darned if they aren't mind-bogglingly backwards on certain things, online and account services in particular. Their approach to intellectual property and online…

Good to hear! Game Maker's Toolkit has become my new go-to video series when exercising. I'll be checking that out tomorrow!

We're glad you're here! Also, I hear you so much on the difficulty getting stuff written. I am trying to attend a training institute for my career next year, but it requires eight substantial essays that are due by November 30 (including one on "what you'd like to change about the world" - AHHH). I'd completed the…

How art responds to culture, particularly oppressive culture, is worth paying attention to, so don't feel bad about speculating upon it; we shouldn't forget that stuff like Guernica and Metropolis were born in the throes of social unrest. I was surprised that the warmongering Bush years didn't produce more interesting…

Wow, I actually do remember you from a few years ago (though I don't recall any specifics). Whatever the case may be, it takes a striking amount of mental fortitude to do this kind of self-examination and apology, particularly to a bunch of anonymous folks on the internet. You're like some kind of anti-troll, haha.…

Oh my goodness, you're right! I might have to jump back into XCX between rounds of XCOM 2. Huh, I just realized that those two are basically opposite experiences.