Mangela Lansbury

I don't have salt in my part of the kitchen! My roommate has some, but I only use it when I'm baking. The rest of my food is unsalted! Also I eat a lot of salads

The only thing I read on reddit anymore is the Ask Historians subreddit. There are weird overlaps there with nerd rage, but mostly it's just a highly moderated board with interesting history facts. The rest of reddit usually just makes me sad or mad or is bad, so I don't go there.

I'm sorry, but this reads to me like you're saying, "My way of playing games is the only true way of playing games." It seems really narrow minded and gatekeepery and I disagree in more ways than I can type on my phone.

I don't have salt in my cupboard.

Catcher in the Rye was assigned to some kids in my high school, and it was the worst. They were all just like yeah man, Holden is fuckin sweet, nothing matters, man, let's all be assholes. I don't think that's a book you should read until you're old enough to know that the main character isn't an aspirational figure.

After an exhausting amount of setup, everything seems to be working well. If you always have the pen and notebook on hand, the terrible software isn't a problem, and some people have the complete opposite experience from me -- they plug it in and it just works. I finally got everything up and running on Monday, and the notes and audio from a meeting in Tuesday just showed up on my computer immediately when it was over. LiveScribe is great when it works, but apparently when it breaks down, boy does it ever break down. I'd say just get an Echo if you want to do anything with LiveScribe. Their wifi stuff isn't easy to deal with, so as long as you don't mind that you have to plug the pen into your computer, it's the same product with fewer features and less hassle. Also with 100% less Evernote.

I read the Scarlet Letter in 9th grade because I had to. It was way more engaging than Great Expectations, so I was alright with it. I really liked the class discussions we had about some of the gender issues portrayed in the work. I revisited it a few years ago. It's actually really good! I'm glad I was introduced to it so I could come back to it later and get more out of it.

Stick that in gayborhoods across the nation and you'll be set for life. Is the homoeroticism even accidental anymore?

I don't know much about how E3 is organized. Why do you have to be invited to a major press event at an industry conference based around press events? That seems bizarre and like something the host's logistics staff should handle, not the company. I've always heard about the invite thing, but it just seems so unnecessary to have to invite people to your press event at, uh, a press event. But maybe I just don't know enough! I know basically nothing, so it's very very possible.

I thought you said Relina is my hero, like you were misspelling Relena, the girl from Gundam Wing, and was about to rant about a pink limo.

The comedy of Richard Pryor still finds an audience in 20 year olds, and it can be on the offensive side -- but it's never just used for shock value, that I can remember. It's got a purpose. A lot of other comedians slip in some stuff for shock value -- especially Chris Rock, and especially from the time where he was staggeringly prolific -- and that just doesn't age as well. What was shocking 5 years ago won't get the same reaction now. Either it's old news and people roll their eyes or sensibilities have changed and people get offended. Stand-up comedy is at its strongest when the comedian is speaking to their personal experience in a unique way. That someone whose most famous stand-up bit is something as moronic and banal as "how bout that airport food, haha!" is mad that college campuses don't "get it" anymore shows that he's just super out of touch. His audience is ultra-rich aging white men, because that's what he knows now. Probably goes over great in pitch meetings with other rich, aging white men. Not so much around college kids.

One of my favorite ways to play Civilization games is to be a city state and try to succeed by cultural or diplomatic victory. It both adds a lot of nuance to and removes a lot of nuance from the gameplay, but the design choices that were made make that an option. I haven't played the Witcher, so I don't know the answer to this question. Is there any analog to, say, the Roma being discriminated against? I don't think that the argument that this culture is being preserved and blah blah blah really hold up if Polish racist sentiments are swept under the rug. I mean, black Polish people were in the news... some time in the last few years (2011? 12?) when cops killed a black man in a major city and there was rioting, which the police responded to with mass arrests. If incidents like that and the ongoing discrimination against Roma aren't addressed, I really think preservation of culture has even the little wind it has taken out of its sails.

isn't that monkey in more episodes of friends than any single black person do you really need to analyze friends that deeply to get to the racism

When I was a kid, I wanted Lost World (the TV series) to be an Indiana Jones/Jurassic Park crossover so bad. The name of the second movie didn't help at all.

I generally agree with you, but I've learned to be content that any criticism is happening even though I usually want more. If you stifle what's happening, you can't take it further.

So the goal is... what, Uber, but for equal representation in, video games? And that goal means that it's okay to push back against people who have a problem with the exclusion of all non-white people in a major release of a AAA video game? I don't understand what it is that you want or why you're being so argumentative about people saying something is a problem when you seem to agree that yes, it's a problem.

You can't really have a nuanced, in depth problem with how people are represented if their representation is as rare as it is. Getting representation is the first step. Then we can move on to improving that representation (which is really just a matter of getting better stories told, something all games need). Progress is made in steps.

I'm making my public education proud, one dumb comment at a time.

I've been re-reading what I own of the Ignatz series put out by Fantagraphics. They Found The Car is good. It's basically a short story based on that phrase, but it's fun in its construction and the art is good. The End is really good, but it's by Anders Nilsen so of course it is. Same for Ganges -- it's by Kevin Huizenga, so of course it's good. Reflections is not very good, and neither is Delphine. The exercise basically reminded me how much I like Kevin Huizenga. I was kind of hoping that I'd been not paying attention long enough for him to have something new out, and he has a book out with Tom Kaczynski! I really like Kaczynski. Has anyone read Trans Terra? I expect it's probably great, but I'm curious what anyone who's read it thinks.

Edit: Wrong thread, somehow! The dangers of going from phone to computer while tired.

Something being excusable (which is arguable! I don't think it is) doesn't mean it's defensible, and if it was defensible that doesn't it mean that it's worth defending. This is a glaring flaw in the work. I actually played a bit of it earlier this week and yeah, it was fun. I think I might actually buy it, which is something I didn't even consider about a week ago. That doesn't mean I like its exclusion of anyone but white ass motherfuckers, and criticizing it doesn't mean it's not a fun (and maybe even well plotted!) game. Also, I've read a lot of fantasy, and exactly none of them had no resemblance to a specific time and area in history that the author was connected to. Except maybe Wheel of Time, but that whole thing was a mess.

From what I've seen, yes! Yes, it is! And that's very, very sad.

Correct. It doesn't tell me anything about the prospective game's relation to King's Field. Unacceptable.

Part of the problem you're talking about is that representation is so rare that even mediocre representation is praised. That the bar is set so low doesn't mean that it's not okay to vault over it, but it does mean that just hopping over it gets some applause.

That's arguably untrue with some of their actions in WWI, but anyway. Polish people are white. They enjoy certain privileges in global culture because of that. Even if they didn't, expecting people in 2015 to include any people of color in their media is not unreasonable.