I expect MS to try and cement their GamePass library with an acquisition like this, and I don't think Sony has enough cash to afford a buy this big.If it does happen I just hope Nintendo manages to get the rights to Dragon Quest...
DC kills letter pages [Newsarama]Call Neilalien an old-timer, but this is not a great idea. The discussion at the link says it all. Letter pages as they stand now, usually two cheesy positive letters, are useless. Either go back to the quality of yesteryear, or do the 'modern' version as found in Powers or Savage Dragon. Internet message boards certainly do much more than a letters page could ever do in terms of speed, interaction, etc. But they don't replace them. And then there's all the junk, flame wars, etc. And which comic book message board?- Neilalien links to over 12. Do readers and creators have time to navigate and participate in them all? People like to land a letter in the comic and feel like a permanent part of it. And not everyone has the internet yet. Of course, ending the letter page doesn't mean one more story page.
Vivendi doesn’t think the TIM board is independent enough – hmm
The Creature Tech graphic novel. On the one hand, you have this interview with the graphic novel's creator, Doug TenNapel, with some great points about how Christians are negatively portrayed in the media, how depicting Christianity as a valid worldview is controversial, and the role comics as counter-culture can have in rectifying that situation. On the other hand, you have this "non-review" weblog entry by Alan David Doane, who quite understandably and strongly, would rather not be tricked into paying $15 for unlabeled Christian propaganda. What to think? Well, Neilalien has checked out Creature Tech. His review: The art/look was great- very Calvin-and-Hobbes. But the story felt a little thin. The above interview mentions that the book expanded from 160 pages to 208, a 25% stretching that shows. There is a heavy dose of Christianity. The gist: an atheist scientist ends up finding Creationism/Intelligent Design very convincing. It's not offensive or evangelistic. But it's enough that it isn't going to work for everyone, and people might be buying this book unknowingly and feeling switcherooed. The book isn't "labeled" as "Christian" but that's a sticky area- how to label? slip it into a back-cover blurb? what gets labeled? does Green Lantern get a "gay" label now? Apparently since these reviews (both very positive, btw) don't mention the religiousness (to the near-point of reviewer irresponsibility), one must assume that for them, the characters just happen to be Christian and the story appeals to audience-widening universal themes and debates about faith and science or something like that. But that isn't the case in Neilalien's opinion. It's religiosity and inadequate arguments- Creationism ain't science- and from a preachy, cranky, conservative, conversionary white male. (And this is supposed to be an different portrayal of Christianity?) It gets old fast, like B.C. around Easter. Just not Neilalien's cup of tea. Check it out for yourself.
The community, meanwhile, was very happy to police itself, especially the most notorious mods: Paul the Spud, a vocal [admirer of Shakesville founder Melissa McEwan] and her IRL friend; PortlyDyke, a self-described \u201Cpsychic and full-body channeler\u201D; and the infamous Deeky, another IRL McEwan pal known at ShakerKoolAid as her \u201Cattack poodle.\u201D According to Persephone, \u201CDeeky was a bully...the first to attack someone for being disloyal to the blog or to Melissa.\u201D Readers learned quickly. One ShakerKoolAid poster said a scolding from Deeky taught them to \u201Cplay the game well enough to occasionally comment without much fear.\u201D Persephone told me that Deeky \u201Ckept people in that heightened \u2018find the one who doesn\u2019t belong\u2019 mindset\u201D and that she realizes now, with some embarrassment, \u201Chow easy it is to be swept up, almost addicted to the high of that cult behavior, going after people who weren\u2019t in line.\u201D
I was heavily involved in this discourse, more than in any other part of this history, so I am a bad person to have writing about it (some people would omit the \"to have writing about it\" from that sentence). But I do want to higlight the \"climax\", which occurred when physics blogger Scott Aaronson mentioned his own experience a few hundred comments down in an unrelated essay. He self-disclosed that he had been really affected by this kind of thing when he was younger, ended up convinced that he was a bad person for feeling sexual attraction to women, and had no idea what to do about it. After becoming suicidal, he was referred to a psychiatrist, who he asked to \"chemically castrate\" him (obviously he refused). It took him years to get over his hangups and misery enough to ask anybody out, although he was eventually able to get married and have a happy family. After disclosing all this, he said that he remains \"97% on board with the program of feminism\", but that he wishes they would tone down the condemnation of shy male nerds in particular.
I think they irony-ed themselves so hard that they accidentally ended up as Nazis. You could always go to 4chan and find people saying horrible racist things ironically. That was the whole point of the anonymous message board - people would troll each other by saying the most awful thing they could think of, and whoever took it seriously first lost. Last I heard from them they were trying to use meme magic to make the coronavirus kill as many people as possible. This is impossible to take seriously, and for a long time their racism was the same way - a lot of the supposedly anti-Semitic posts bore obvious fingerprints of having been written by Jews who were having a fun time laughing at themselves. But if you're in a community where everybody puts a lot of effort into pretending to be pro-racist all the time, and where any breaking of kayfabe gets punished, eventually some people who aren't in on the joke just get actually racist, and if you're so devoted to edginess that you can't politely take those people aside and explain, eventually that takes over the culture. I know this is a weird theory, but Kurt Vonnegut was a smart guy and he said \"Be careful who you pretend to be, because you are who you pretend to be\".
\"Woke\" was originally a black slang term for an independent thinker aware of the world around them. It's inspired dozens of thinkpieces, with my favorites being the ones comparing it to terms from various religious traditions (for example, \"Buddha\" is just Sanskrit for \"woke person\", even if official translations phrase it as \"awakened one\"). #StayWoke was a popular Twitter hashtag for a few years.
Bradley trained to be a teacher of Religious Studies (RS) with Sport at the University of Bristol's Graduate School of Education. It was on the RS course that he met his wife, Clare. Bradley spent the next nine years working in Bristol first at a large comprehensive school on the outskirts of the city and before taking up a post first at Head of RS and Assistant Chaplain and then Head of Middle School (Years 10 & 11) in an independent school in the city centre. At this time, Bradley began studying for a part-time Masters in Educational Leadership at the University of Bristol at the same time as moving to Wells Cathedral School to run the RS department and to be the Housemaster of a Boarding and Day house for 60 boys from Years 10 to 13. Bradley was a boarder himself from age 11 to 18, so a return to a boarding house was welcome. In 2009, Bradley joined the staff of Dean Close as Senior Deputy Head before moving to be Headmaster of the Senior School in 2016, when the then Headmaster, Jonathan Lancashire, became the first Warden/CEO of Dean Close.Bradley's philosophy of education is built on the principle that school days are about preparing pupils for the next stage of their life. It is not enough for schools to just deliver exam results. Schools should not just help young people to secure places on university courses or jobs, but to build and sustain relationships, play an active role in the community and have a broad view of life. Bradley says, At Dean Close, this can be seen in the commitment to co-curriculum and leadership programmes that sit alongside a rigorous academic curriculum which teaches both skills and knowledge. One of the great strengths of Dean Close is that there is no 'typical Decanian', each year is shaped and impacted by the wide variety of pupils and staff who make up this living community. Everyone works hard and takes great pleasure from each other's achievements.Beyond school, Bradley enjoys both playing and watching sport, spending time on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, being an active member of St Matthew's Church in Cheltenham and the company of his three teenage daughters, when they let him.
Mr Christopher Cockerill grew up in Anchorage, Alaska and Surrey. Before joining Fulham School, Christopher was the Director of Sixth Form at North London Collegiate School. He has worked in several other leading independent schools, including Highgate School and Sevenoaks School. Christopher has had broad experience of different pre-university curricula, including the International Baccalaureate, A-Level qualifications, and American advanced placement courses. Throughout his career, he has worked in both single-sex and co-educational, boarding and non-boarding settings.
Dr Spence has been Master of Dulwich College since 2009. Previously, he was Head Master of Oakham School (2002-09) and Master in College (housemaster to the Scholars) at Eton College (1992-2002). Dr Spence jointly leads the Southwark Schools Learning Partnership (SSLP), a nationally renowned collaboration of the senior maintained and independent schools from within and just beyond the borough, and sits on the board of a number of schools and charities, including Art History Link Up arthistorylinkup.org and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He writes widely on education and culture and is a playwright and librettist. 2ff7e9595c
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