Finally got to watch a classic of cinema the way it was meant to be seen tonight. That's right, it's

everyone is seeing the big header image on that actiblizz article, but it was looking at this bigger breakdown is what sent me into space The thing to really understand here is that you can take this totally at good faith--you can understand how it functions, how they want a tool to ID biases, etc--and still think the methodology absolutely undermines their goals.

Extremely useful technical breakdown here.

https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/1471672348772233218

Taken along with the Gamestop short squeeze and the rise of grindset culture, it feels fair to say that what we're seeing is a moment of petite bourgeoisie mutiny. This isn't about changing the fundamentals of an unjust system, it's about becoming the next generation of rentiers.

The Waypoint crew is coalescing and ready to go live in about 15 minutes over at Twitch.tv/Waypoint. Don’t believe me? Here’s proof. Would you BELIEVE that we apparently need another 30 or so to set up? I know that in this video, everything seems totally ready to go, but Cado is saying we’re not quite ready to go

This is a start but it has to go further. It's not just that some D&D races are inherently evil (though it is that too, obvs), it's also that you can open the Monster Manual to a random page and get something like the Yuan-Ti, who are barely laundered Yellow Peril stereotypes.

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1275584431269478402

As reactionary D&D players complain about WotC promising these changes, it's worth considering why. Unexamined racism for sure. But it also suggests that they believe these elements are woven through the fabric of the game such that extracting them would spoil the cloth.

Recently, I haven't had the time to go hard when someone in our space shows their whole ass On Here, but, man, today making me want to find the time. So beyond Pitts' selective memory about GG, his centering of himself, and his gross attacks on ZQ today, the piece itself is also empty posturing that wields ambiguity like a cudgel, which is a dog whistle for a a particular audience (regardless if he inteds to blow it)

Fine, I read the hopepunk explainer (vox.com/2018/12/27/181…) and yes I have feelings.

There are a lot of ways to hit this thing: the Hollywood logic; the disinterest in the subaltern; the poor choice of inspirational texts. But I wanna zoom in on this bit, specifically. Hopepunk is useless for motivating real political change bc it's directionless. There's no explicit end goal. To borrow language from a piece I wrote earlier this year, "I believe I can do things" might be fuel for some, but it's not a specific destination.

Okay, at risk of adding fuel to fire, here’s my genuine, non-subtweet take on the escapist relaunching with the goal of “leaving politics at the door.” One of the realizations this little corner of the world has had to make in the last few years is that cultural work is always carries some politics. I don’t mean lower case p, democrat-v-republic politics, I mean a capital P Politics about how we imagine our ideal world and lives

As long as people in the esports & streaming communities continue to defend dudes like this with "haha, he shouldn't have gotten drunk on stream" alibis instead of confronting issues head on, those communities will continue to have problems with racism dotesports.com/counter-strike… It's childish behavior. It's like when your friend got caught doing some bad shit in class and everyone just looked down at the floor and hoped the teacher knew that you all learned your lesson. That isn't how professional spaces work. You have to be the teacher, not the kids.