Of Steamworks and Sodomy

How did everything go tits up? A combination of Davies not being able to produce enough satisfying stories and Gatwa making an unplanned early exit necessitating the season finale being changed with reshoots, with whatever they could think of to provide a bridge for whomever came next.

hey. if someone tries to smear you on the internet for something asinine, what you need to do is block every single person engaging with the post and remind yourself that absolutely under no circumstances are you obligated to draft a PR response defending some out-of-context screenshot or kink fanfiction or thing you said when you were 15 or whatever put your blood in the water. you are not a public figure or a brand. you do not have to respond to something if you know in your heart it is bullshit.

Lots of good advice in the link above, but the one line that really sticks out to me: Don’t try to satisfy a public that is setting out not to be satisfied.

I've always hated the idea that some people push that cancel culture is not real. Yes some people get taken down for entirely legitimate reasons but there are plenty of people who are targeted simply for being too visible or popular. Vindication by proving accusations doesn't mean the end of things either, the internet is so full of misinformation that even disproven accusations can linger for years and innocent people can still be ostracized simply because other people don't want to "take the risk" of associating with someone who was accused of something in the first place.

Last media I consumed... if were counting games then thats the world of Against the Storm. A world constantly under the effects of an eternal blight storm thats left only 1 city standing which has to constantly create settlements to gather materials to keep it running only to watch those settlements get blown away when the storm peaks.