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Iain Mew
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Writing a British history of popular video games one sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 2012. He/him. www.superchartisland.com
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I grew up on prog and then got very into Coldplay, this tracks

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Ill see if I can get something set up!

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Not the sort of torment I was expecting, really. "I’m convinced there must be some other game called Planescape: Torment out there, because the game I cleared was one of the most misogynistic wastes of time I’ve ever experienced." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/10/08/p...

Planescape Torment: Never meet other people’s heroes
Planescape Torment: Never meet other people’s heroes

[Content warning: This article cites misogynistic dialogue in several places and also refers to in-game scenes of relationship-related abuse.] I’ve had my eye on this RPG for a long time now,…

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Indeed! From the extract it does look like they may have written around that issue by just not mentioning that The Night Agent and Ginny & Georgia were closely followed by 더 글로리 / The Glory

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I can't access the article so it might be in there, but I think I found the spreadsheet and the numbers are global. Reckoning with fitting worldwide viewing figures and national discourse has been a persistent issue with YouTube as well

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Not only does Sleeping Dogs (2012) feature the voice of future Oscar-winner Emma Stone, there is some incredible meta foreshadowing in one of the first lines spoken to her character being "you thinking of becoming Chinese?"

A screenshot from Sleeping Dogs (2012). Main character Wei Shen is on a motorbike with a white woman called Amanda (voiced by Emma Stone) behind him. He asks "So what brings you to Hong Kong? You thinking of becoming Chinese?"
Screenshot of an Entertainment Weekly article from 2015 titled "I'm not buying Emma Stone as an Asian-American in Aloha" by Chris Lee.

The text reads:
"Accepting Emma Stone as an Asian-American in Aloha requires a certain suspension of disbelief and no small amount of magical thinking. In the Hawaii-set romantic comedy-drama, she portrays Allison Ng: an aggressively peppy Air Force fighter pilot of Chinese-Hawaiian-Swedish decent who falls for an existentially angst-y military contractor played by Bradley Cooper."
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It was the Milk Marketing Board! I remember learning about them when finding out why the British equivalent of the Tour de France was for a time called the Milk Race. www.superchartisland.com/milk-race

Milk Race
Milk Race

Mastertronic, Spectrum, 1987

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Got it, I may be over-sensitive on this having seen so many people post a 'joke' 'parody' Liz Truss quote as real recently

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@norock.bsky.social various responses have pointed out that this isn't real

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That sounds very satisfying! Like when I found a Tamsyn Muir interview where she talked about the Zero Escape series, and it confirmed for me that her book Gideon the Ninth didn't have so much in common with the first game by coincidence

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Writing a British history of popular video games one sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 2012. He/him. www.superchartisland.com
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