Senior Curator @critdistance, previously EIC @FPSWeekly, bylines @ places. PhD candidate UW. Privileged AF, Nonbinary Xジェンダー Padawan queerdo. They/them.
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Joined February 2012
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Bad take. Also, kindly get off your favourite tortured auteur's dick long enough to remember actual worker solidarity, or is that too much for you guys these days
If you’re at all interested in the video game Disco Elysium, you’ve probably seen a whole lot of homoerotic fanart lately surrounding the game’s two protagonists, Harry Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi.
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It's not a noble sacrifice that I'm not playing the Wizard Game. It's not a thing I'm Giving Up; it's just impossible for me to see any joy in it amidst its circumstances. I don't understand the view that people play it to escape when just reading about it reminds me of cruelty.
Watching the back-and-forth between Activision, Microsoft, Sony, and Several Governments is sort of like watching glaciers argue.
i genuinely do not recognize beings this wealthy/powerful as still being human
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IGN publishing a laughable utilitarian excuse for not putting criticism in conversation with context and Troy Baker rebloging nonsense devaluations of criticism as a whole because people on the internet were mean about TLOU 2 are different facets of the same problem.
When I think of who would write a good trans character, I definitely think of a team who (checks notes) put their hands in their pockets and just mumble the word "diversity" over and over every time they're given a direct line of questioning about JK Rowling
I think it's a compound tragedy that we're all wringing our hands about thinly veiled and incurious marketing copy a few weeks after a whole lot of more thoughtful writers across culture writing were laid off
Dan Stapleton's remarks a week ago articulating a narrow view of reviews as informing a consumption/purchasing decision make perfect sense given a readership that buys wholly into the fantasy of reviews as an objective genre above the untidy edges of the lives impacted by media
I do wonder what's the point in IGN making even a half-hearted attempt to situate a game review in context when the comments below said review are two steps past "I want to separate art and artist" and fully into "I support the art *because* of the artist and her vile politics"
For all of the problems with JKR's books, Fascism was still the villain. It was a deeply flawed, white establishment liberal's idea of fascism, but fascism nonetheless. Her refusal to recognize even that pale shade of fascism in her contemporary practice is genuinely tragic.
I want to articulate very clearly that this is not a recupration of the books. If magic were real and Voldemort rode into town today, JKR would carry on entirely undisturbed in her cozy Ministry post. She would pivot from pushing papers to processing people with an empty shrug.
maybe it's just me but i don't give a shit about quebec fragilty when a muslim woman points out that quebec is islamophobic
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