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[à propos de Simone Weil] “[...] je tiens à souligner qu’il serait injurieux pour sa mémoire que le contenu éternel et transcendant de son message fût interprété dans le sens de l’actualité politique et mêlé aux querelles des partis. Aucune faction, aucune idéologie sociales n’a le droit de se réclamer d’elle. Son amour du peuple et sa haine de toute oppression ne suffisent pas pour l’inféoder aux partis de gauche ; sa négation du progrès et son culte de la tradition n’autorisent pas davantage à la classer à droite. Elle mettait dans ses engagements politiques la passion qu’elle apportait en toute chose, mais, loin de se faire une idole d’une idée, d’une nation ou d’une classe, elle savait que le social est par excellence le domaine du relatif et du mal (contempler le social, écrivait-elle, constitue une purification aussi efficace que se retirer du monde, et c’est pourquoi je n’ai pas eu tort de côtoyer si longtemps la politique) et que, dans cet ordre, le devoir de l’âme surnaturelle ne consiste pas à embrasser fanatiquement un parti, mais à essayer sans cesse de rétablir l’équilibre en se portant du côté des vaincus et des opprimés.”

Yep. Just to play catch-up, the Yogscast and Rooster Teeth are “partnering” - ( Pulitzer Prize Winner Danielle Partis also did an article, and despite the fact she made a good call to draw attention in the article the 2019 Triple Kill, ‘tubefilter’ has information that wasn’t just pooped out of the statement, so.)

Seven hit series from 12-year-old The Yogscast — including seven-player, mafia-style game TTT and the dad chat-focused podcast Triforce — launched today on a dedicated page on Rooster Teeth’s website. Additionally, Rooster Teeth’s podcast network, The Roost, will provide ad sales support to The Yogscast’s slate. Finally, the deal will call for Yogscast to collaborate with Rooster Teeth imprints Achievement Hunter, Funhaus, and Inside Gaming on various content ventures focused on gameplay and comedy.

So basically, Yogscast will drive traffic to Rooster Teeth from the UK, in exchange for filling in the massive cavities in their advertising income. FourthFloor, despite boasting about being well-connected, is a bit of a paddle-boat, so I guess they hope RT will make themselves look better at advertising than their reputation has demonstrated.

But regarding  your question, do you remember the name of the guy from Rooster Teeth who got booted? I remember all of the silly lurid things, like how he was fired on the spot and Geoff pulled his RTX badge from his neck mid-con, but I don’t remember if he was an editor or a content creator or what.

But you’d think given that kind of foundation, rather than ad support, Rooster Teeth could offer seminars on how to strike someone from your network without smearing their bullshit all over yourself. In the case of Game Grumps’ Ben Anderson, from what I’ve seen, they’re being overly secretive about what, if anything, has been done, and some people doubt they intend to do anything at all.

I feel the same whenever I read about some celeb “racing away” from photographers in traffic.

No one ever died from getting their picture taken, guys. They die from reckless car accidents.

This is not a defense of the paparazzi, mind. They don’t seem like nice people.