Every day I wake to the news that Biden hasn't yet contracted ebola and feel dispair.
catonkatonk
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I thought it was because videogames toned down the jiggle physics or whatever.
That's a good question. You are right that if we wanted to see the extent of Anne's vapidity we could just read her book. Speaking for myself, I was never going to do that. While I'm sure most here figured her out a long time ago, seeing her talk at length like this was eye-opening to me at least. And probably the same for a lot of people whose only exposure to her is from the odd piece in the FT or whatever. Honestly, if someone wanted a primer on how and why western hegemony is failing, I think an hour of Anne Applebaum discussing her honestly held views is as good an explanation as any. In this respect, I prefer a guest like Anne Applebaum over a Mehdi Hassan if only because the former embodies the actual values of the state rather than the professed values represented by the latter. It really is something to behold the emperor without any clothes.
But, if it's telling you something you already know, it IS pointless and counter-productive. There are people who will watch it and think, "Gosh, she's right, Poland DID do well in its transition to neoliberalism and therefore the system is sound and was implemented with good intentions and Russia is just innately full of bad people who can't succeed". Is it acceptable to allow obvious falsehoods like that to be stated without any pushback? Ehhhh....
Bastani never asks tough questions, he just lets his guests speak at length. That's his style. Applebaum is hard to take at such concentrated doses, but I do think it is an insightful glimpse into the diseased and delusional mind of the imperial elites.
The later entries in the series from the looks of it lean heavy into the Shonen look with weeb fanservice.
Artstyle wise, maybe, especially 2. All three have a lot of Saturday Morning Cartoon nonsense going on, though. Silly schoolyard bully villains hamming it up, lots of "fights" that involve characters standing around and talking about their Special Power or whatever.
3 probably has the least of that, and of the "fanservice" of the type I think you mean, and is possibly the most like Xenogears. But still not the same thing (but maybe if Xenogears was made today it would be like Xenoblade anyway - maybe the real difference is in fidelity and amount of acting etc., I dunno! Some things that work when read don't when heard...). Honestly, I think the biggest similarity between 3 and Gears is that the makers once again tried to do something immense and profound and kind of whiffed. But still totally worth experiencing even though it's compromised. Pretty pro-communist as well. Amusingly so.
On 
, I saw people clutching their pearls at the chant and explaining that it is a terrorist rallying cry, and that even Wikipedia mentions the connection.
But also, what if he had been a Muslim immigrant? That obviously wouldn't justify anything that had happened. And so the race, religion and nationality of the attacker are entirely irrelevant.
I wonder why the government is having a difficult time signalling to its population that collective punishment is unacceptable...
The British state-run media organisation has been egregiously bad. Look at this shit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cervv8rz8mzo
An anti-immigration protest began peacefully outside Bolton Town Hall earlier, but within half an hour, about 300 people, who mostly had their faces covered with black face masks or balaclavas, charged towards the building. They began shouting "Allahu Akbar" - a phrase meaning God is greatest - as they arrived at one side of the town hall, where a separate group had gathered waving England flags.
Meanwhile, here is footage of that event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3QDnJeoYJM&t
I think you're thinking of the one in Rotherham, where the police formed a line in front of the wall of the Holiday Inn, while the fash smashed through the doors and entered it three metres away from them.
A lot of these disgusting gammon emigrate to other countries when they age. They then exist in Little England enclaves where they can eat the horrible British cardboard food and speak English in dimly lit "gastro pubs" for the rest of their lives. This, after lecturing other cultures to adopt "British values" the entire time. Some of them actually have the fucking gall to lecture minorities in the UK from afar.
I'm not of that age, but imo it's more a technological thing than a generational thing. People, of any age, cannot put their phones down. I personally have to make the conscious decision to disconnect if I'm going to read something or watch a movie or whatever. I imagine that for people who grew up with smartphones, that's like cutting off a limb.