I’ve always been of the opinion that email should be plain text 100%, all the way. No fonts, no colors, no images, no formatting beyond tabs, space, and line breaks. It’s just text! Imagine the overall reduction in bandwidth used across the world if people weren’t padding out their 5 word quick replies with 100kb of…

No intention to undermine you generally well made points, but I do want to note that “trademark” and “copyright” are not interchangeable terms.

Part of the problem is that this is treated as a binary. It is either one thing or the other. Either it’s availabilty or it’s intent to do harm (whether due to social conditioning, mental illness, or any other reason). But it is both! The true ideal is to address both sides of the issue, so that those with the intent…

Mm, well, not arguing the game doesn’t get retconned hard. Just wanted to note/have confirmed that there WERE actually two in the first game, however briefly.

I thought even the first game had two keyblades? Didn’t Mickey have one that was like Sora’s with the colors swapped? It’s been a long time. I might have mixed some things up.

“Despite” assaulting a reporter? I fear it may be a case of “because of”. I ran across a distressing number of examples of people cheering him on specifically because of it. Certain types of people have been thoroughly conditioned to HATE reporters as a group, believing them to be harassing liars who are bent on…

I accidentally referred to him as “The President” yesterday and felt terrible afterwards. I was talking to my dad and it just seemed like the easiest way to refer to him. My dad still is not disgusted with his own choice to vote for the man, so....

Keep in mind your school was one among probably millions. There are still plenty of schools with extremely lax and liberal dress and grooming codes out there. Similarly, there were plenty of them with extremely strict codes when you were in school, whenever that actually was. I know my own schools in the 90s were…

Gosh knows I’ve been appalled watching my 5yo nephew just tap on every button presented to him, without a moment’s hesitation in games like that. He can’t read them, but I sure as heck can. Apparently noone’s ever taught him that those things sometimes == money spent, and my protests fell on deaf ears. Only a lack of…

Oh not at all. It’s depicted as a slow slide, and he’s shown to have many, many chances to turn around and reverse course. But every time he doubles down on it and makes things worse. Usually backed up by Wonder Woman, who ends up generally agreeing that a brutal dictatorship is the way to go. It all makes a sort of…

The Toy Story movies are some of the most intensely horrifying movies ever made. They are pure existential nightmare.

Got it. So braids aren’t the issue. Thanks.

Are hair extensions required for braids? The article here says the school specifically cares about the hair extensions, but also refers to braids in general as though they were the same thing. This is something I am honestly not familiar with, and I don’t understand.

Er, you seem to be taking my observation as an attack, and that’s not my intent at all. I just wanted to point out an interesting historical antecedent to the issue we’re seeing today that you indirectly referenced. I thought it was interesting.

Yes, but my point was that you used it specifically in the same breath with Dracula, which at the time was NOT public domain at all. It was essentially equivalent at the time to the people now making fan games and having to change them to remove the copyrighted elements. It’s just interesting.

Kind of aside the point here, but I’m amused you called out Nosferatu here, given that it specifically exists because someone wanted to make an adaption of original IP (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and they couldn’t get the rights. So they changed a few details and did it anyway. It seems very relevant here somehow.

I think the real commentary here isn’t so much that having an added narrative is bad, but rather that a very specific and focused one has been added that detracts from the larger presentation. The net effect is a reduction of the overall richness of the experience.

And what they don’t call out here are the kids who attend because they think they have to, even if they don’t want to, even if they know they could technically opt out, because they are aware of the damage it would do to them socially not to attend. It’s not really possible to get those kind of numbers, since by…

Wait, it’s not? I got it from Netflix months ago. It was excellent.

I wish I could be sure I remember eating Hydrox or some other actual off-brand cookie. The ones I remember were unpleasantly stiff compared to Oreos. The taste was different, but not actually worse I suppose. But the texture heartily disagreed with me. I am a very texture-oriented eater.