So I saw Megalopolis. You can read my review here: noescapevg.com/on-megalopol... I can't in good conscience call it a good movie but I do think it's a fascinating one. It's like the antithesis of Southland Tales
The empire must stand, but it can be led better. That’s it.
Apropos of this: TIL that they're trying to restart the Three Mile Island reactor in order to sell energy to Microsoft so the latter can meet its AI goals.
"There are good reasons to question both their choice of entertainment (lurid genocidal fantasies powered by odious and ancient bigotries and cable news) and entertainer (a prissy old golf creature who'd kill a million strangers to get wished happy birthday on Entertainment Tonight)..."
I was inspired to write this by the power of imagery. defector.com/check-out-th...
Last week, the Washington Post wrote about why so many of the people that wait in line for hours to get into Donald Trump’s political rallies wind up leaving before they’re over. The answers are not n...
I have to assume this is over-concern about the player feeling too judged for things they didn't technically "choose" to do but also the player chose to play as a character called THE DARK URGE.
doing a Durge playthrough for the first time in BG3 and the degree to which the party could not give a fuck about it is ludicrous. Even Wyll is like "ah, so you've bathed in the blood of an innocent? Ah, well, 'there but for the grace of god go I,' or somesuch. I do suggest you take it easy, though"
"If we position ourselves as against social media and short form entertainment we've already lost. " This may very well be true, but it's nevertheless an appeal to practicality, not the argument that those things aren't affecting students.
And I don't think the effect of smartphones can be so blithely dismissed. They're a seismic shift in the way our entire society works. The piece even goes right on to immediately acknowledge that this has required major adjustments in approach, even though it formally argues it hasn't.
I think it's also oversimplifying how say, Wilson's translations sit within the spectrum of modes of translation, though I don't doubt they might be more eminently readable and interesting for students than others.