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Humor has often been a part of social resistance, from The Black Panther Coloring Book, editorial cartoons of the end of the gilded age, court jesters, social media/memes as part of the arab spring, to Oliver/Colbert/Stewart. While I respect the criticism that we need to be careful about actions that might further expose existing victims, I also reject any idea thats 1) possible to fan the jerks flames more than they self fan, 2) be nice in hopes that niceness will stop them from threatening murder.

To issue of "what they want", which Bjorn touched on pretty nicely about "american voicelessness." If you skim off the virulent entitlement and MRA stuff, I think you have a lot of a common, distinctly American problem, which is income inequality and austerity induced diminished opportunities. I find the comparison to modern right wing/tea party/punching down stuff to be apt. What is the "nepotism" complaint if not a complaint about lack of opportunity? "All these people know each other and give each other jobs, and not me because I don't know the right people." When you look at the resistance to the change of the status quo of production, I think you can look beyond just cultural values, and into a fear of people producing things they don't understand/can't participate in. Young people are culturally typically liberal. I think another unspoken facet of this is a sense of losing access to what was once familiar. No doubt that with these things comes a heavy veneer of white / male privilege that requires self reflection.

Good first show! This was definitely the impetus to get me to watch the show for the first time. One of the things that I think makes Lynch a genius is that for a surrealist he's totally unpretentious about working within genre conventions.

As a mac enthusiast I don't know how Jake forgot Shadows of Gate.

There was a real good "well that's opening a can of worms" when Sean described games as not games.

Haha, it seems like you've received plenty of recommendations, but here is mine: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America It's a very exciting narrative of a huge forest fire and the creation of the American park services, and the birth of the conservation movement. It's also much about immigration, and class issue as most of the struggle is about preserving the land for the people vs the whims of the robber barons of the gilded era. The thing I would stress most is how engaging and exciting the narrative plays out. Timothy Egan paints a vivid picture of danger and struggle. Also, a cool primer for that Firewatch game some of you might have heard of.

She's under no obligation to "help" people not send murder threats. She is a victim of an ongoing crime, and she has a right to speak her mind in any which way without this response. She has no culpability for their asymmetric response. Anything less is an acceptance of this as a status quo.

Is it possible to de-escalate threats of deadly force in response to her observations on video games? I think Anita's drawing attention to the level of violent threats she receives is important to show people what we are dealing with, and she should never have to watch her tone, or what have you. Also, given that she receives death & rape threats in response to videos talking about things a person with eyes can see in a video game there is nothing she could say that would actually make these monsters behave worse. Every public appearance of hers has been preceded with threats of violent massacre.

If he never sent a death threat why would he feel so bad about condemning the people who send death threats? Time to sack up lil buddy!

Shut Up and Take It, the TotalBuiscuit Guide to Dealing with Harassment.

yeah, i'm not super sure i need another thing, though i'll support them, and buy CDPR games through it. i appreciate their somewhat more narrow store, compared to steam.

just read them the manifesto. where they sincerely used the word cupidity.

if i can take a moment of banality, it's a bummer that we're in a world where somebody named "Total Biscuit" wields some kind of significant power.

I've been slowly buying parts here and there for a fresh PC, and I need some advice! Is there a noticeable performance difference between M.2 SSDs and Sata3? The mobo/128gig ssd combo would add about $200 additional to the machine, as I got a sweet half price 256gig Sata3 SSD, which I was planning to use as a primary install drive anyway.

I think you could also easily view Leigh's piece as arguing in favor of a potentially larger group of consumers, that she's not slander all game players but engaged in the holy act of consumer advocacy for a potentially unserved group of game consumers, which in religious terms, the unconverted are in some ways most precious.

There really isn't much to say to somebody who doesn't see the awful, personal attacks on Anita, Zoe, and others as pure misogyny and representative of a significant portion of their "critics."

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i'm paraphrasing a tweet, but nothing screams "restoring journalistic integrity from corporate influence" like pressuring advertisers to dictate a website's content.

I'll cosign what Nappi & everyone has said. Neuromancer is mandatory stuff, and really the only starting point but Gibson's next few years are a combination of "just sci-fi pulp" and genuinely interesting ideas. Pattern Recognition and Zero History hit me just right because he managed to write books that were based around two types of things I was getting really into at the exact time I was getting into it. PH with obsessive/secretive internet culture culling, which for me was punk/hardcore record collecting, and ZH with secret, raw, word of mouth fashion. His last three books are cool takes on our specific modern dystopic disease, but not "post apoc" style. They were not broadly well received by sci-fi types. His non-fiction essay collection Distrust The Particular Flavor is also fun! For the poster looking for Women centric adult books, Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers is something I'd strongly recommend! Part of the buzz around it is that she really breaks open that modern "referential" literary style that is often associated with a boys club (Franzen, Wallace, etc..). Also seconding Munro's Dear Life!

i really try to avoid creepifying specifics on the video game forum, but getting somebody to errrrr emphatically consent is fully hot and these nudniks should get their heads out of their asses.

people have been bringing fireworks to punk shows for as long i remember, but somebody went to the next level night before last.

i think a formative part of my brain broke when we never got hoverboards.

My favorite NY in film is Death Wish 3. Low budget punx with badly dubbed accents.

I only read the RPS Wot I Think, and he said he liked it, but found some elements a bit fiddly, like having to clikc you lockpicker to pick locks, and specifically your computer person to use computer skill on a computer. That stuff never bothers me, for whatever reason. I'm glad W2 came out first, as I have more heart invested in Torment, so I'm glad they'll get some feedback to adjust by.

i'll judge! NO SKIPPING ON FIRST RUNS!