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some of y'all seem to mean "listen to minorities (poc/queer/etc)" less in a "have an open mind and make sure your social circles are diverse" way, and more in a weirdo noble savage "if an oppressed person says it, it must be true" kinda way.
i assure you that some of the stupidest people i know have had harder lives than me. That doesn't mean that they are correct when they say Trump will save the Union Organizers, or that Trans people are doing more to forcibly convert Cis people to "their side" than the other way around.
Like, on some level, I guess I do have more patience for them than I do for privileged assholes saying significantly less stupid shit. But it doesn't feel like that's necessarily a more respectful attitude.
A significant chunk of the internet would absolutely be calling for Biz Markie's blood if you had heard Just a Friend for the first time today. Like "get a load of this abusive asshole who won't let his GF talk to a man".
Sometimes shit simply isn't that serious. You have to let people say things without always taking it in the worst possible light. And definitely can't assume anyone who isn't joining you in the mob agrees with your version of what they said.
If you can have the grace and patience for anyone, regardless of why you have it, you simply have to let other people extend that to other people as they please. Sometimes they really are failing to recognize something that is exactly as serious as you think. Other times you are severely overreacting. It might never be possible to tell.
Sometimes it is even wrong of them not to redirect some anger towards you! Rappers don't have carte blanche to be awful towards women, but obviously a lot of those old callouts were just people looking for an excuse. So people end up walking a fine line between sexistly apologizing for misogyny and racistly overreacting to black art. You can't cut off everyone who slips to one side or the other. But can you blame people for being mad?
IDK if I actually have a conclusion here other than don't try to convince everyone to ignore the same people as you, but also let other people ignore who they want
dunking has to be one of the worst products of trying to feed the algorithm or harvest likes
phrase your "rebuttal" in the worst way possible for convincing anyone of anything. in exchange, get many more points for preaching to the choir. It doesn't matter if you've only responded to a misunderstood, or completely made up, version of what OP said. hundreds of people will still click like because you said something funny that they agree with; the fact that you obviously aren't changing OP's mind doesn't matter, anyone stupid enough to disagree in the first place must be a lost cause. point and laugh at the idiot then move on, and pretend that getting the ratio is somehow the same thing as winning an argument. get used as an example of how stupid everyone who disagrees with OP must be when someone quotes your post and the cycle repeats towards the opposite side of the court.
I don't wanna hand it to Aristotle but sometimes it seems like people completely forgot about catharsis. Like Tragedy is still a thing. That people want to write and consume. When I say I enjoyed HBO's Chernobyl it's not because I thought Jared Harris was having a great time. When I say that Oedipus Rex holds up, it's not because I secretly want to fuck my mom.
More importantly, I don't think the authors were secretly into that shit either, but some of y'all will assume that and apply it to everything you read.
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So, I'm reading an old issue of Computer Gaming World, which had a review for Napoleon's Campaigns: 1813&1815. The game takes advantage of the personal computer to hide most of the information about the battle. The player's view is the same the commander's view in On War: a series of scouting reports which are often delayed, mistaken, or contradictory. This is a deeply un-fun idea, but exciting to a certain niche audience (which I am in.) It is also something tabletop wargame designers had been wanting to do. For someone interested in wargaming as an accurate simulation of command, removing the omniscient view inherent in a tabletop wargame dramatically narrows the gap between fantasy and reality. But I have to assume it sucked badly in practice, because that game got thoroughly memory holed.
There have been several reviews of recent titles like Radio General which credit new games with inventing this hidden information idea, and praising them for "finally" closing that gap between fantasy and reality. Reviewers were excited for the same reasons that wargamers were excited by the personal computer games' potential 40 years earlier. To be fair to thise reviewers, I also had never heard of Napoleon's Campaigns before. I don't expect anyone to be familiar with the entire Apple II library, but I do hope the developers were familiar with that game, or at least bit repeating the same mistakes that came before. Not sure if this would be a case of forgetting lessons learned or reinventing the wheel.
It is funny how often basic ideas in gaming get the "first ever gay Disney character" treatment. Games as art is an obvious one that we hopefully have finally gotten over; "choices matter" was another fun one that at least became so widespread everyone has played one of them by now.
Anecdotally, that seems to happen much more often to serious game writers than people writing about other media. General audiences still credit the more popular movie with inventing something that it stole from an obscure art flick, but film review guys are expected to know the original. In games, it seems like you can just assume everything was invented by the record setting top-sellers and get away with it. Probably just a side effect of how impossible it would be to keep up with every video game release.
Still baffles me how many games manage to do the same thing for the first time.
people loved to talk shit about Gender Studies as a field of study, but if I had known it was going to turn out to be the center of American Politics for the next decade or so I would have added it to the curriculum.
even if it did turn out to be the kind of redfem bullshit boomers loved to assume it was, it would have been really useful to know the basic frameworks of stuff.
feels like a lot of posts on here (and conversations IRL) are either people having feminism 101 eureka moments, or rehashing arguments that haven't advanced since the 90s.
would be a lot easier to navigate in a classroom setting and instead of independently picking out literature hoping it is actually helpful and up to date. and not like, accidentally the ur-terfism book.