It’s wonderful to read these stories. Link’s name comes (apocryphally?) from him being designed to be a player’s ‘link’ into the game world. It’s wonderful that as that world, and the character, have been afforded greater definition through technology and design norms iterating, that thoughtful choices about the…

This is awesome that Link is a character that anyone can project themselves into. I’m a cisgender straight white dude and Link reads as a classic sword and sorcery, saves the princess, fucks up the bad guy sort of character to me. And that’s the kind of protagonist that appeals to me (boring i know).

This was lovely, thanks! 

Having a very close family member who is trans and games and has shared similar feelings/views on Link, I appreciate this a lot, Linda. 🍻

Apparently, the new owners noticed their audience was primarily people in their 50's and have decided to program what they believe will appeal to that audience. You know, as opposed to what they were watching.

Twitter is running great if you don’t actually use it, yes. For everyone else, all sorts of crap is breaking regularly.

“The most shocking part about twitter is that while over 80% of the people were fired, it appears to be running just fine. Haven’t heard of any outages, unreliability, etc.”

Bringing in and maintaining relationships with advertisers, for one.

Counterpoint:

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-outage-welcome-to-twitter-message-1850171981

“Yes, I totally have a new CEO. You don’t know her, she’s lives in Canada.”

“Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” Musk wrote in a tweet (of course).

So what you're saying is, Twitter will be doubling it's number of employees?

Because company towns were such a great idea in the past.

Employer provides incredible benefits package, using money earned from doing good deeds. Kotaku: “Isn’t that terrible?”

The manager should have kicked them out once they started being dicks. Even if they hadn't been shouting slurs, an employee shouldn't have to deal with that abuse.

Fuck serving that family. I wouldn’t have done it. The fact the managers pulled him aside to talk to him about it in advance makes it clear *they* knew shit was going to go down, and decided to do nothing about it.

The way to have Black employes avoid having the same experience Mandy did is for the manager to protect them from it. Mgr. knew before he sent a Black person to the confederate table that it would be problematic & that they would be blatantly racist because that’s who they are/what they do. Hence, the caveat. I wish…

It’s not being a scab if they aren’t replacing the striking workers jobs. If nobody is writing the show they aren’t doing anything wrong. They’ve said daily that they stand with their writers but most of the show is unscripted anyway - doesn’t make sense for them to shut down and put an entire staff out of work.

It average age is over 50 and its members are mostly male, according to the records.

Not having any new material is sort of a prerequisite for certain ways of thinking. It's basically a mission statement for conservatives.