the former happens more often than I would have thought. among the natural rulers of mankind (humanities grads with at least two ancient languages or other unmarketable equivalents) it is self-evident that he's hellspawn; it is easy to forget that the usurper Trustee Class sees things differently

my work involves at least ~60 minutes every day on linkedin, and the two things that I constantly have to resist doing are posting a string of obscenities whenever Gordon Gee gets mentioned in a positive light, and replying to posts like this with "are your clients morons who can't read paragraphs"

And the answer is, yeah that would be cool

The Lion King is a movie that dares to ask, what if a mandrill were a Jesuit

ἀποθανεῖν θέλω

you're both wrong insofar as most students at all of these schools are illiterate

Retracting my previous statement having read a bit of her blog on the prize question (less "your vulgar podcast is beneath my dignity, keep your money" & more "oh my gosh I can't even" which reminded me of what bugged me about her book)

but yes this this point here is valid

As a person, probably. The "go to hell I'm not going to do your podcast" move was great

And then been given some other kind of prize without obligations

Oh wow, one of the two best English novels in the 21st Century!

She appears to have won, and declined, some kind of prize

Congrats always to anyone securing a sinecure, that's the dream and I begrudge no one.

but I don't get Helen DeWitt

I wish I could raise nine figures from the stupid and wicked rich!

this is so cool

oh no did they wreak rats

Rats Wreak Ruin in Canada (old newspaper clipping)

in Canada you used to be able to wreak ruin, but I think that's been illegal since 1937

Politician fundraising email speak,specifically

I hate this more than anything

Shh!

no i already have one of those this is about the hat

this was supposed to be a quotetweet of this but i messed it up bsky.app/profile/neme...

man with giant owl

iliad same

I would rate BG2 higher than she does; and a handful of tactical mods were developed quickly to address her concerns about easiness. We're talking about a 9.5 vs an 8 or 8.5 in my mind.

But BG2 lacked all the open-world maps BG1 had. You weren't exploring a landscape you were following a story

i'm apparently misremembering as i don't think this blog was active in 2003; but the name instantly clicked; she must have written somewhere else before. i distinctly remember arguing about her opinions on a phpbb forum in high school or early college

I'm teaching Clara to read properly (three books simultaneously and at least one of them right to left), but your thing is cool too I guess

This is completely right

This was a much more wholesome way of being an Online Teenager With a Following than whatever clavicular is doing

No but I read her blog extensively when I was a third tier celebrity in the BG modding scene back in about 2000 to 2003

I agree with the second half of this but not the first

It's just fucking annoying!