Semjaza

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[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

British English has a lot more variance than Yankspeak.

We're more likely to use "help V+ing" than "help INF". An average larger vocabulary, atop different usages. Even with US dominated media eroding our dialects faster than ever there's still a lot of difference out there.

I will need a more specific question to give more response. Are you a non-native English speaker living in the UK?

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago

We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.

If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn't seem unreasonable.

To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn't hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.

But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online... And it's actually the less historically accurate one.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

You're all for pulling the lever in trolley problems, aren't you?

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neoliberalism doesn't beat fascism though and that's the point.

Fascism is capitalism's immune system to eliminate dissent and critical ideas.

And then when everyone is united against the fascists who've rounded up the socialists, the students, the ethnic and sexual minorities, Neoliberalism steps back in, wipes the blood off of its hands, and says "wow, wasn't that bad. Let's stick with me from now on".

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

That's a potentially interesting definition.

Dream Daddy, the daddy dating sim isn't a woke game in this context because the conceit of it being an LGBT friendly town with a bunch of single gay dads makes it all make sense.

But a game set in 1300s Japan with a lesbian white protagonist would be woke because that seems incongruous?

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read it as these two questions:

  1. Which controversial sentence said over public broadcast media do you disagree with the critiques of?
  2. Which controversial broadcast sentence do you come closest to agreeing with, even if you don't think it true and hate yourself for even contemplating as true

Don't know if I'm right or but that reading makes most sense to me after a couple of passes and some thinking.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago

[Map Men / Jay Foreman] (https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCbbQalJ4OaC0oQ0AqRaOJ9g) - fun, painstakingly produced educational videos about maps.

Yhara Zayd - Not too long media analysis. Especially of Horror and through BPoC lens.

Andrewism - discussions about Anarchism and organising from Trinidad.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 1 week ago

But Dragon Age was never good, either.

The first one was mediocre at best with some good ideas, and it was all downhill from there.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The writer here, rereporting another interview seems fairly Musk tolerant.

RDJ probably is too. But at least he's calling him on a few things.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.

I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don't.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

They're old English letters used for writing the two different "th" sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

It's certainly simpler, I'll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

May I ask why at all?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2523251

He's so silly!

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