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Jessica Price Shouldn’t Have Been Fired
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7–10 minutes·
44 comments on Jessica Price Shouldn’t Have Been FiredThat’s the single, blindingly obvious conclusion I came to after reading the way in which Price, a game producer and writer for Guild Wars 2, was fired by her employer ArenaNet for some tweets in which they claimed she “attacked the community”. Peter Fries, a fellow writer, was also fired for defending her. Price had…
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The Cultures Ep 255: Despair is a sin, What do men think it means to be a man?
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 255 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: “Despair is a sin” What do men think it means to be a man? (plus the related Death, Sex, and Money ep) Note: No Naomi this ep
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The Cultures Ep 254: Avengers: Infinity War, Jurassic World 2, Scifoo 2018
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 254 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Avengers: Infinity War Westworld Jurassic World 2 has the exact same characters as Rampage Adrian went to Scifoo 2018 Note: No Andrea this ep
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Technology and the Virtues: Change Yourself, Change the Future
Why write about the future? I’ve never seriously tried to predict the future, a fool’s game if there ever was one. Most science fiction writers are perfectly aware of the contingent nature of the future, and prefer to think about how new technology, and the new abilities it affords us, might alter our lives and…
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The Cultures Ep 253: Queer Eye and Male Friendship, Good and Evil
Listen to episode 253 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Queer Eye and Male Friendship Good and Evil
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The Cultures Ep 252: Zelda BOTW’s Story, Get Paid to Write a Novel
Listen to episode 252 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s narrative mechanic, how it works and doesn’t work (hot take: 1.5 years too late!) Get paid to write a novel (sort of)
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The Cultures Ep 251: Gallup Careers Coaching, Not Following Politics, Gamify Everything
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 251 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Gallup careers coaching The experience of not following politics Gamify everything
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Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018 – ★★★
Better than my very low expectations. Decent soundtrack. Awful robot. Good, if criminally underused, Lando. Clearly meant to be the beginning of a trilogy that will never see the light of day. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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From Justice Leagues to Solos: The birth of a new Box Office meme
Last weekend, a torch was passed in modern box office history. No longer would Justice League, Warner Bros’ supremely expensive $300 million superhero team-up that grossed an astoundingly low $657 million worldwide (and only $229 million in the US) be used by box office aficionados as the standard unit of measurement for other, better movies,…
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The Cultures Ep 250: Rituals for Secular People, Incels
Listen to episode 250 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Rituals for secular people Incels (Reply All episode) Note: No Andrea this ep
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