Well, Trump has a very strong personal brand built around concepts that he doesn’t really embody. As he admits in The Art of the Deal, 90% of it is bullshit deliberately orchestrated in order to create the perception of industry and value.

Is yours the one with the golf course or is he banned from multiple universities?

Just gonna leave this here

The creative process has always been directed by a social agenda. The Renaissance happened specifically for ideological and political reasons that had very little to do with any sort of “pure” or “creative” process. Creative work is always the result of very self-conscious thought and an over-arching agenda. If the…

Also for the record she did Eurovision in 1988.

Heheh Butt Jokes

Sorry, the good ship Celine-Dion-is-cool-and-good sailed when she did Eurovision.

In Ye Olde Days, whiteness was a lot more complicated. For a long time there was a sliding scale of whiteness where Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians were full white, French and so on were mostly white, and Spanish, Irish, Greek, etc weren’t really white at all. It was bizarre, totally unscientific, and also it’s an…

Jon Hamm told a story on Letterman that fudged the facts about University of Texas baseball in order to make a point about how outclassed and intimidated he was about the prospect of going into sports. Deadspin fact checked it and he mentioned in an email that he reads Deadspin and used to be a commenter.

That wasn’t really true at the time, though. Muyzuka, one of Bioware’s co-founders was CEO of a very independent group of studios that had a lot more autonomy and self-direction, and both of the remaining Bioware docs were quite senior in EA.

I stopped reading when you lumped in Ghost World with superhero films. Did you just look up films based on comic books on wikipedia?

The Ukips are a bit complicated on that front. They and some of their counterparts on the continent are internally divided on issues like gay marriage and sometimes use pro-gay or pro-woman rationales to justify their xenophobia.

Yeah but DA2, which was the real crossing the Rubicon moment for their reputation, wasn’t even out when she said that maybe more people would dig their stuff if they ditched combat or provided a setting that obviated it. It only got made into a thing after DA2 when people were looking for someone to blame.

No. It was absolutely not due to critical reception because her comments predated Bioware’s visible fall from grace. Yes, they corresponded with the collapse in confidence in the Docs, but that wasn’t public. Just internal.

It’s not even new interpretations. Shakespeare played fast and loose with gender, ethnicity and history. Hence the infamous chiming clock problem. The plays have ALWAYS been meant to be contemporary in every sense of the word.

Yeah, that’s true. She never actually wanted to do games, actually. IIRC there was just a local opening after a TV writers room she was in had to cut people and they did it by seniority. But let’s not pretend that The Bioware Group, when she worked there, was a normal dev. They had a lot more autonomy and a very…

Man, it’s almost like Clinton’s current campaign is just as bad when it comes to optics and messaging as her 2k8 campaign.

Kojima, like dozens of nerdy men (Tarantino and Whedon come to mind) should just admit that a lot of his material is pervy and fetishistic because there’s honestly nothing wrong with that if you cop to it. Kojima in particular because his men are sexualized in a very similar way. Especially Punished/Venom Snake.

The thing that always struck me about Hepler is that yeah, someone who hates combat heavy RPGs really shouldn’t be working on combat heavy RPGs. But basically all she said is that we’d have more women in gaming if IF and VNs were more mainstream. Those are genres that the kind of otaku dorks most prone to this kind of…

Oh please. He doesn’t hate women. He’s just eager to cravenly throw them under the bus in order to try and shore up his right-wing bonafides. At worst he approaches women in a kind of sociopathic way where he is completely hollow and craven. Which-