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What I dislike most (about a mostly good show) is this mandatory Voltron transformation sequence. It gets old after a while. And the soundtrack could be better for me. But storywise, some things are set up poorly or left unhandled IMO, and there isn’t always a buildup to what should be a significant plot point. An episode is largely self containing, but also has stuff carrying over to the next episode, and I don’t feel like they end it with the cliffhanger they used to. It feels a bit messy without an adequate pay-off.
I love the animation team, Korra was done right in spite of lack of support from Nick, and I hoped Voltron would feel as rewarding and well written. While it has the potential, it really feels like a second rate rip-off (at least some seasons) while it could and should be so much more. And I hate to say this because for the most part it is a good show. But it’s obvious that it can be better, and it hurts me to see that it isn’t living up to its full potential.

Wholeheartedly agreed. And storywise it did become more interesting when more ambiguous motivations got involved, when in-fighting occurs, and when each side has two stories (bad Altean and good Galra characters for instance). It breaks with naivity and never gets too preachy; it has some complex characters, while others only exist for comic relief, and some (like Pidge) are driven by one motivation and never divert from it, no matter the odds. And in those instances it’s nice to see the pay-off, and it is even better when it has some other dramatic, unforeseen and unintended effects that further the story as a whole. It is in those moments that the show really shines, and I want more of that.

Okay, a couple of things.

1: I’m Jewish. My grandfather was a founding member of the Israeli Defense Force. I’ve dealt with anti-semitism… I’ve also dealt with the repurposing of the word “Nazi” to mean anyone that the accuser disagrees with. I am constantly seeing anti-semitic commentary and statements from people on BOTH sides of the aisle. Yes, that includes progressives – who refer to Israel as a “racist apartheid fascist state” and then accuse them of committing genocide (and when pressed, they say that the term includes “cultural genocide.” Which is oh so insulting to the Kurds and other peoples experiencing actual physical “systematic murder of the population” genocide throughout the world). Translation: plenty of anti-semites on both sides. And often by people who then call the other side the nazis.

What does that all mean? It means that if I discounted everyone who had any involvement with nazis… there wouldn’t be very many people left. And yes, I am aware that there are a lot of skinheads and neo nazis in the alt-right. But I shared those links because they were literally the only ones willing to upload that guy’s account. I get the impression you didn’t actually click on them, or you would have read the bit where the attorney states: “Zoe Quinn posted my home address as well as pictures taken outside of my home to her more than 30,000 Twitter followers. The “best GG journalism” article Quinn references was a full dox of me provided by Daily Kos intern and Something Awful “goon” Margaret Pless.”

Again: Zoe Quinn made someone else the victim of doxxing.

2: There are legal recourses against doxxing.

https://patch.com/massachusetts/malden/what-is-doxing-yes-it-is-illegal

In fact, when “antifa” began to dox people suspected of being alt-right and media outlets began to praise such internet vigilantes, it was pointed out that what these people are doing is in fact highly illegal:
https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-antifa-data-mining/
(which has indeed led to violence: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/us/middlebury-college-charles-murray-bell-curve-protest.html?_r=1

And that wasn’t even the “alt-right” guy who went to the hospital, that was a liberal professor attempting to defend him against a violent assault by masked assailants. A female liberal professor, if her gender matters)

3: What you just said there about “people just deciding she was the epitome of evil feminism” is literally what I described in my initial post. About how gamergate was about a bunch of consumers protesting unethical journalism regarding the products they were paying good money for. And how the developers and journalist outlets realized they could dismiss any and all criticism by claiming that all the GG people were solely dedicated to making every female gamer (i.e. 50% of the people playing video games) turn off the consoles and PCs and go into the kitchen to make sandwiches. Let me turn it around on you: Have you spoken to anyone claiming to be with gamergate? Have you gotten their side of it?

4: She was not “some girl who made an indie game.” She stands accused of defrauding and sabotaging an organization specifically set up to promote female game developers: http://www.thefineyoungcapitalists.com

During which she doxxed them as well:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-fine-young-capitalists-game-jam

This was a deal set up to encourage female game developers, with the profits from the developed games to be donated to charity.

5: Not every book about being a victim was written by an actual victim. She is not the first con artist to make a name for herself by claiming victimhood. I previously mentioned Andrew Wakefield. He too claims to be a victim. He claims that the medical vaccination industry destroyed his career in order to silence him because he was warning people about the dangers of vaccinations. He is not a victim – he is someone who was lying about vaccines in order to make money at the cost of innocent children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

Please note: I have said nothing unpleasant or hateful about women. I have said nothing about feminism. I have only commented on one subject, and only the one subject: whether or not this particular individual was telling the truth in their book, or whether they are in fact a scammer who is far more accustomed to being abusive than to suffering from abuse, and is guilty of repeatedly committing the same illegal activities they claim to be the victim of. Please bear that in mind when you respond.

I’m afraid I can’t look at the Boston Globe or the Washington Post ones. And I’m not about to pay for subscriptions. But… one of those had what appeared to be Brianna Wu, who is currently running for congress… and is unlikely to win, because she also known to be a liar and the local voters are all too aware of it (she bragged a couple months ago about saving a turtle that had been stuck crossing the road while people applauded. To which people in Boston replied, “no you didn’t. You did not save a turtle crossing the road in OCTOBER, when they’re hibernating.”

https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/925026259809292288

But… as I keep pointing out, what you are saying jives with my own statements:

“here are plenty of established publications that have done in depth reporting on this.”

Yes. Established publications that have found it useful to push a specific narrative. Remember, Gamergate is all about sexism and misogyny – and ignore anyone who says differently, because that would interfere with the profit flow of dishonest companies in a multi-billion dollar industry. And Gamergate is also responsible for all kinds of things in the last few years, including swaying the 2016 election – and ignore anyone who suggests that the DNC ran a horribly flawed campaign or that Bernie Sanders supporters (call em Berniebros, since they’re all sexists too) might have been feeling too betrayed and disgusted to vote for Clinton, or that the handpicked Democratic nominee was too flawed to win against a pied piper candidate.

Yes, I am specifically saying that the major publications have deliberately ignored the facts in order to push a narrative. They do it all the time. They did it in 2016 with the Keystone pipeline protests – completely ignored, to the point that many people didn’t even believe that a privately owned oil company was in fact digging pipe across the Sioux reservation and employing a combination of police officers from multiple districts as well as private contractors (i.e. mercenaries operating on domestic soil) against the protesters. They’ve done it this year when pushing the narrative that the Russian president unleashed a team of highly trained elite hackers to put a puppet in the white house. They did it prior to the latest administration when they buried the details regarding the incarceration and torture of Chelsea Manning and the exile of Edward Snowden. They’ve been doing it for decades – in the 1970s Americans lived in mortal terror of the Black Panthers rising up and murdering everyone, when the actual Black Panther activity consisted of… marching in peaceful demonstrations while openly exercising their rights under the second amendment. They’ve been doing it at LEAST since the Spanish-American War, which was started by a guy who wanted to create a interesting story to sell his newspapers (“You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.”). When our current POTUS dismissed CNN as “fake news,” it drew howls of outrage from… CNN, but everyone else just laughed and said, “yep! They’re just as bad as Fox, they just come at you from the other side.”

I am not a self proscribed Gamergater… at least, I never thought of myself as one. I was actually rather critical of GG at first, and said that they needed to be more emphatic in distancing themselves from the violent kooks. But over time I’ve watched things develop and I’ve seen what’s happened, and… it’s been a smear job. With a lot to gain for those doing the smearing.

What did Quinn have to gain from it? Answer: she went from making one free-to-play game (which qualifies more as an “interactive fiction e-book”) to having a book deal, public appeal, cash flow, and influence.

Yes, I have seen nebulous internet hate focused aggressively on individuals. But I’ve also seen many examples of false claims of victimhood for personal gain. Again: you’re defending a book you read by someone you’ve never actually met, and refusing to talk to anyone representing the other side. And I’m telling you point blank: they’re not sexists. Many of them are women. They have been smeared with accusations of doing the same things that their accusers have done. I’m suggesting that you consider that a lot of times fiction gets pushed as nonfiction by people who have a lot to gain.

“Woman tells hyperbolic joke, is labelled liar by Internet Sleuths.”

So… you’re saying she’s Schrodinger’s Asshole?

(I.e. a person who is joking or not based on the reactions of the people around them)

Cool. I’m pleased as punch to receive such an eloquent and nuanced critique from an obvious master of comedy.

“Woman tells outright lie, blocks people who point it out, gets defended by someone calling it a joke.”

http://weknowmemes.com/generator/uploads/generated/g1490045033963786951.jpg

Let’s reign this in back to Quinn, and what happened to her. If Quinn was somehow impeding ethical games journalism, where is the evidence? Reddit posts? Screengrabs of amazon reviews posted by anonymous forum users? If Gamergate is really about ethics in journalism, who is its spokesperson? MRA Lawyers? 4chan? If there really is a problem with ethics in games journalism, why doesn’t Gamergate come together and crowdfund a site or legitimate organization dedicated to stating their message clearly, and working to identify the specific problems and present good solutions?

Here’s an interview between Totalbiscuit, who sides with the idea that ethics in games journalism is a real issue, and Stephen Totilo, lead editor for Kotaku. I find Totalbiscuit’s arguments here extremely weak, and Totilo easily points out their flaws. Keep in mind that Totalbiscuit doesn’t think of himself as a Gamergater spokesperson, he just believes there are legitimate issues to address, and two sides to the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmIrWqEUUU

You admit that Quinn is a bit player in the industry, with only one small game. Why so much effort to expose her as a fraud when she’s such small potatoes? Her friends and family are extremely low priority targets. At least Anita Sarkeesian was outspoken about female representation in games, not that I think that’s a good reason to harass her, but at least I could understand why her critics thought she was attacking their favorite games.

You even acknowledge that aggressive, focused hate campaigns happen online, but for whatever reason you’d rather take the word of anonymous posters and alt right lawyers over legitimate publications and the victim herself. That’s all there is to it, and I’m tired of arguing this. Feel free to respond if you want the last word.

Nah, Sanderon is not as dark a butcher, I don’t think, at least in terms of literal prose. There’s certainly a lot of dark themes and quite a bit of fantasy violence, but Sanderson never even writes swear words in his books (well, he makes up swear words based on his fantasy worlds, but even his stories that take place on Earth don’t have any swearing). Butcher, at least in Dresden, loves swearing, and weird sex stuff, and descriptive violence. When I visualize Sanderson books, they’re always animated, but when I visual dresden, they’re live action!

And I read through all of Wheel of Time purely because Sanderson took over the series. Indeed, the last three books are the best part of the series, but I would never recommend WoT to anyone, it’s such a convoluted slog to get through.

dont know who is cs friedman. >_>
and mistborn sounded like it would be dark.

yikes. D: why is everything so dark. why cant stories happen with people not dieing? only orcs should die.

crazy how I stumbled across this and, just checked out that wiki. Ya. Pass!