I did what now? If I implied you were a racist for your staunch defence of D&D I sincerely apologise. I'd like to think we can disagree on interpretation of texts without insulting the other, or assuming the other thinks the worst of us.

Sure, although I'd like to think that isn't aimed at me. I'm still not seeing the calls to censorship, tacit or outright.

First off, let me say that I think that some, perhaps many, people go too far in criticising media for being insufficiently woke. With that out of the way, why do so many others leap to the assumption that criticism is a call to censorship? It seems like a bad faith argument to me, a way of not having to engage with…

I don't hate GoT; it's enjoyable, soapy pulp fiction. But it also borders on exploitation, albeit pseudo mediaeval exploitation with an RP accent. I think the concern is that the D&D will treat modern-day chattel slavery with all the care and sensitivity they used in, for example, employing the gang rape of Craster's…

Serious question: do you know how the Final Solution is addressed/depicted in The Man in the High Castle? I'm asking because I don't, but it seems like there might be an actual example of the counterfactual you're proposing.

That's what…I mean, 'worries' isn't the word. That's what makes me not give a fuck about this show. GoT is just some handsomely appointed pulp with a (mostly) great cast. Nothing about it makes me think D&D are up for handling something that requires as deft a touch as 'chattel slavery exists in the North American…

Having issues with the premise of the show seems fine to me. Calling the black people involved in it 'props' seems decidedly not fine.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Bit of a dick move.

David Simon and Vince Gilligan are involved in this?

Yeah nah, I'll be 'right thanks.

No no, I get the practicalities of it, I'm just also sympathetic to why people thought it maybe wasn't a great look.

If I may, just because those are bad examples of the trope doesn't mean it wasn't employed in GoT.

But then it's not a civil war, just the regular kind.

This has probably been mentioned, but if the south successfully seceded in the 1860s, then a contemporary war between it and the United States wouldn't be a civil war any more than if war broke out between the UK and the Republic of Ireland in 2017. It would just be two countries going to war.

Fuck Splendour in the Grass for preventing artists from doing Brisbane side shows. I missed Baker last time she was in town because we had a newborn (worth it) and I'm way too old, drink too little, and do far too few drugs to be bothered with festivals these days.

Well, you can't just wait for permission. Show some initiative!

It's so easy to confuse the two!

Just look at that fucking hair.

Almost all easily obtained wasabi is just horseradish and green food dye. Real wasabi is very hard to grow and correspondingly expensive.

Begins is my favourite Nolan batmovie, but The Prestige is my favourite of his overall.