She’s clearly very ill/not there and it’s astounding that she has a platform. Yes, I agree with her that it’s frustrating to see that Louis CK and Chappelle are keeping this up to acclaim - but her complaint isn’t that she thinks these men should be “canceled” for their behavior, just that she was.

What she said to…

I can’t speak for ABK specifically but many companies specifically flagged job postings for remote, hiring people from elsewhere, and basically told employees that so long as they were in certain acceptable areas it was fine. In addition, many executives themselves moved (temporarily as it turns out, I believe) but…

It’s absolutely attendance theater. I’m not at actiblizz either but where I am, WFH has been huge in terms of improving my life as a dev. I’m no longer getting up at absurdly early hours to commute into an office where I literally cannot focus because I can’t do any creative work in corrals or open floorplan areas…

They never, ever care about actual facts here. Almost NO teenagers are pursuing gender affirming surgery, and they most certainly aren’t in South Dakota where that would have been incredibly difficult anyway. Puberty blockers are prescribed quite readily to cisgender teenagers and have been historically. This is all…

Hi Eric. South Dakota native here! How many kids in South Dakota were getting gender affirming surgery. Can you answer that one for me?

It’s pretty hard for me to revisit. I wasn’t HUGE on season 3 either (and while I always get yelled at for this, the cousin romance stuff just feels weirder anytime I rewatch) but the first two seasons are just so, so good and it truly sucks that Tambor is awful. I haven’t completely shelved it and I admit it, but it…

I’m Jewish but fundamentally I don’t necessarily disagree, but I do think part of the reason for umbrage in this instance is that whether you believe that G-d is real or not (I don’t believe in G-d as some sort of supernatural creator or anything, it’s complicated), there’s something to be said about religious beliefs…

I’m loving the constant, constant handwringing about “bullying” now with regard to the game.

“We could excuse JK Rowling bullying trans people on twitter like it’s her full-time job at this point and giving to charitable organizations working against trans people, but the REAL bullying is saying we’re assholes for…

Nope. You can’t believe that Christ is the savior while still being Jewish - the beliefs are wholly incompatible. Jews for Jesus are a Christian endeavor kind of wrapping Judaism around themselves. I understand people may see this as some sort of religious gatekeeping but again, the core beliefs here are completely at…

1. Messianic Jews are not Jews, full stop
2. For a party whose stock and trade really emphasizes antisemitism, my, they are DESPERATE to pretend to be us, aren’t they?

It’s absolutely fascinating that suddenly people are very keen to adopt this phrase even more widely when they’ve decided it means “nothing I do as an individual consumer ever matters, so why not”

Certainly voting with your wallet may not have any significant impact, let alone anything a game publisher might feel, but…

Right, anyone can do what they want with their eyebrows here but the one thing I’d also want to note is that sometimes if you pluck into oblivion, they...don’t come back.

My right eyebrow has not been the same since my early 00s overplucking. It’s not super noticeable or dire, but I know what’s missing and I don’t like…

Honestly, I am surprised it took as long as it did to get there. It seemed like a fun but slightly doomed experiment.

Absolutely. My response to all of this is “fuck off, Armie, this won’t work” (though it probably will, no one actually gives a shit about protecting people)

With live TV, a little bit - because of the way Hulu’s live TV stuff was structured, I found it wouldn’t be workable for me and just stuck with Sling instead, which was a commensurate price but less restricted. 

As an older person who grew up watching MTV and knows exactly what was aired then, the pearl clutching about videos you have to actively seek out moreso than ever if you want to see them is fascinating.

I am really not a big fan of Sam Smith, personally, but the hate they get is definitely a headscratcher. Are folks…

It was absolutely what a lot of fans thought: that it was a shock rock group but that if you simply spoke with Warner you’d find him intelligent and a little more nuanced. I think there were some signs there that I absolutely just brushed aside (as a Jew, I always found any invocation of nazi imagery to be really…

Well, and the thing is, you can let players be evil if you want to. But evil should be consequential in some way - say whatever about Harry Potter, but it absolutely spent a LOT of time moralizing about everything from what people ate and weighed, how their activism worked, what they stood for, and beyond - plenty of…

Let’s keep giving these companies big tax breaks for having offices in X, Y, Z cities or in general because of all the collective good they’re doing for job creation!

Right, that’s my question: this seems to be a charge relating to him actually firing the weapon, when the charge I’d find more readily applicable is a charge of negligence as he was a producer and - as tired as I am about the constant arguments about how much involvement a producer at that level would actually have in…