In response to this item, posted both on their discord and their steam page (link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1995520/), I decided to just let the algorithms that specialize in this kind of thing do their job. Here’s what it had to say, and I find it largely reflects my feeling/thinking coming out of the read. So, for what it’s worth, it’s pretty safe to say that this offering is most likely going to go the same path of so many others that thought they would make a cat drink coke when the cat has clearly indicated it likes milk and water. This is […]

How and Why Sensitivity Reading Is Not Expurgation First, let’s define our terms: Expurgation is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media. Sensitivity Reading is a form of editorial guidance to assure/ensure cultural presentation is accurate, and societal subgroups are depicted in ways that they agree accurately represent them. I suspect the word war is already at least partial understood based on those two definitions, alone. I can also tell you that I stan and ride with #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs. That said, my thoughts… People who […]

I have come to an awareness that, perhaps for the first time in our country’s history, the United States has fallen to being aggressively indisposed toward its constituency. Be it by the bludgeoning of over-informing, the divisiveness of misinforming, or the profound distraction of both in the national and community commons, a somewhat corporatist, political, and  theocratic “community of common interests” now exists.  This “community of common interests” has an understanding of itself as an agent in the world; it understands and makes use of information warfare to acquire and hold hostage the intellectual promise, potential, and prowess of “we, […]