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				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
High or little charity, Mombasa is rather far away from Joburg.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Which part of the state has that power to forgive? The executive acting on what authority derived from what statute? The congress did not pass legislation directing the executive to do that forgiveness. The executive has a policy goal of doing so and is now reaching for some other statutory authority to implement it since in the US the executive cannot generally act unilaterally. The court case is whether that is or is not cricket.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wabi-sabi is probably the term you're thinking of, although it's not really obscure.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
FWIW James O'Keefe is unironically, unabashedly a theater kid. One of the details that came out of his departure from Project Veritas was spending foundation money to fly staff out to see him perform in Oklahoma!. Perhaps his familiarity the culture might explain how he gets some people talking (or is able to hire undercovers with similar abilities).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Python is the scripting language that every non-software-engineering STEM grad probably worked with once in college unless they're one of those R/Octave types (or worse MATLAB). Everyone from Astrophysicists to Zoologists will likely be touching a bit of python for anything from data analysis to running the tools themselves. Many of them are not computer programmers though occasionally they do get hired into software positions based on resumes where their lack of training in things like source control, software architecture design or using descriptive variable and function names (or even functions) cause problems. Maybe not 5 million strong but likely more than a million. It's the PHP for scientists and engineers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've seen a trend at some big Universities that seems designed to choke off the community college option and solve the non-STEM-major math course problem. STEM majors that are designed as pure, four year programs with tight prerequisite chains of degree requirements starting in the first year such that missing or failing one course sets back progress a year (especially if classes in the sequence are only offered one semester out of the year), that cannot be fulfilled by community college courses so at best the only benefit there are general education requirements but the blow may be softened somewhat with university offered humanities-for-STEM-majors courses that are credit and workload light to accommodate STEM workloads but fulfill the larger University's requirements. It can lead to a rather segregated student population, more so than normal (especially if you have dorms similarly segregated, there is usually at least one quieter STEM focused dorm that may or may not be combined with the substance free themed offering).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If anything, one would think the scam would be the confusing nature of sending some money every paycheck into the program, being required to have sent some amount over some number of years before being able to qualify for it but that the program is not and has never been anything like a personal account.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 13, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Any computer monitor running a resolution higher than 1920x1080 over HDMI is also affected. For reference every current gen iPad on the market pushes higher resolution than that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 13, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It used to properly be called "koshering salt" because it was the type of salt used in the koshering/kashering process for meat. But then English did what English does and now nothing makes sense anymore.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 13, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably the HDCP requirement for 4K UHD video over HDMI/DisplayPort. DRM (albeit fully compromised) has been baked directly into the wire protocol. If you try to run without (on the cables, monitors, source, any other pieces of equipment passing the signal), you get downgraded to 1080p HD.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 13, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sydney apparently takes great offense that someone would dare to doxx her true name and safety rules. Interesting times.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nick Yee




That's a name I haven't seen in a long time. It's a shame he pivoted his academic virtual social research into a gaming market research firm. The rest of the Terra Nova writers had less interesting content over the years. I think Castronova has been flogging the same virtual economics concept unchanged for something like 20 years now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Depends. Wizard game witch hunting seems like something people are discussing on Twitter.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And of course, I'm only getting paid while I'm actually practicing law, so I'm essentially doing all this extra work for free.




Characterizing the work of maintaining and/or increasing the value of a thing you have an ownership stake in as "free" labor is a bad sleight of hand. Prole thinking for bourgeois benefit. For many small business owners/partners it can be well below prevailing wages or even minimum wage but that's the downside of the gamble of owning a business.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The rules are straightforwardly bad from a game design perspective. 3v3+keeper gameplay works all right, the passing combo meter is a nice touch but small number of players with limited angles and the controls are not necessarily the best. The beater minigame does as well as it can but it's just controlling/dodging a circle (and strategic play of using it to force the quaffle holder into your own chasers is kind of pointless since they're AI controlled and won't tackle very well). The other special abilities (automatic turnover, team special to score automatic points, chaser boost) are fine but have very little reason not to use at first opportunity. The biggest design problem is the snitch. The point value plus ending the match makes it generally more important than anything else. They did their best with progress on the catch meter being influenced by play on the pitch so upsets are not that common. The race minigame is fine. Overall it's like a gimmicky NBA jam game but everyone has the same gimmicks.


Content wise it kind of falls off. Win 3 matches with any of the school teams to unlock world cup mode and all but one of the world cup teams. Grind away through an 18 round tournament (skipping two rounds) to win the cup to unlock a special exhibition only stage (that plays like every other stage). The teams do play differently but only minorly (appropriate for a sports game) and have different cinematics but the gameplay blends together a lot. The most interesting variation is how snitch meter gain from team special is balanced by whether it scores 1 or 2 goals. Matches run pretty long so winning a cup with any one team is something of a grind and the unlockables are one more team, a special location and collectibles. Collectible grinding is mostly rerunning and winning a cup with each team plus some special condition ones. Aside from achievements, meaningful unlocks are completed pretty quickly. In game moments of greatness are slim as is expression space so not much memorable about matches themselves. Outside of core gameplay doesn't carry it very far either. The cinematics/voice clips (x team player did thing) layered on top per stage visuals is thoughtful but becomes noticeably repeated. The announcer victory quote is the same every single match. There's not the type of story or characterization you'd see even in something like an older character racing game or fighting game.


It's a neat game but there's a reason it was more commonly found in the bargain bin than on a shelf. I feel like more team variation, some way to speed up play and characterization beyond names and different 3D models of the players could have made it better. Actual sports games like FIFA have more player choices in terms of passing and how the players are arrayed on the pitch affecting play up and down the field. They can be further carried by fans of the real life sport with an interest in the real stats and facsimile players from the real teams which doesn't really apply to Quidditch World Cup.


The book/movie story games have entire books worth plot events to use and can use many different kinds of challenges to control pacing, make the games interesting. Quidditch is just quidditch and doesn't have much to carry it besides the idea of the game.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Just look to the cochlear implant micro culture war for a template of how things would go.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That ruled over part might run into trouble in a peace time military, where the career oriented cya culture, rotation-based assignments and the political considerations of making it to general grade can lead to many of the same types of pointy-haired bosses supporting the current thing and leaving before their poor decisions come home to roost succeeding while task orienteds burn out or get up-or-outed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Depends on the type of overpayment. There's an entire industry and retail advertisement culture built around the yearly (interest free) repayment of overpaid taxes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The classic example would be the old 10,000USD deposit at a bank triggering a reporting requirement, those reports focusing attention and investigation into one's finances and also slowing things on the customers end. Depositing 5,000USD and then later depositing 5,000USD does not trigger those reports and sometime between 1970 and 1986 there may have been common advice to do just that for convenience's sake. Of course, specifically depositing money in that way with the intent to avoid that sort of detection is now a federal felony. Often times many of the detection algorithms that have to be run by people end up as straight forward rules of if-this then-that so avoiding triggering detection in the common case might not be that difficult.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
THAC0 is an easy mode hack. Non linear-formula-based results tables are the lindy option true to the wargaming roots of the game. But today even miniature wargaming rule sets are forgoing tables in favor of simple stat value add/subtract dice roll formulae.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But way too many people in the US treat filing taxes as some arcane process they could never understand, when the truth is they've just been deceived by the hype.




They type of person who plays D&D might be slightly more capable than the median person when it comes to navigating a paperwork process or cross-referencing data. Many folks even ones who by all indication should be able to handle certain types of mental tasks when confronted with a problem shutdown and refuse to process to the point that someone else literally reading an error message to them but because the information channel is not from a stubborn impersonal piece of paper or computer lets them move forward. It's like the quote in Dune about learning to learn being something of a superpower for time sensing space Jesus.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He's reasonably conservative in the same way that the British system of government is a Democracy. An NRA member United Methodist (who have been undergoing their own amusing CW related schism over the past few years). Not welcome at a DSA meeting, but not a modal red triber either. That particular title I referenced is free to read, at least the first edition is, and the plot involves the somewhat progressive space British empire (ruled by a Queen) in the person of femHoratio Hornblower trying and initially failing to form an alliance with a small backward, vaguely Mormon coded conservative patriarchal Christan nation before proving her mettle protecting them from the even more backward schismed fanatics the next system over (who somehow code Muslim complete with Hijabs and Stoning's and rejecting Jesus). The final chapters and even the ending are pretty clear that the results will lead to a major social change, essentially ending the patriarchal structure of that society and that's a good thing. They have been saved by the enlighted Queendom and will be made the better for it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


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David Weber




One would be forgiven for not coming to that conclusion given the very overt neoliberal consensus feminism in The Honor of the Queen of course.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Everyone remembers Dobby but the later books actually delve into the whole enforced but not necessarily unwanted servant relationship pretty well with Kreacher. An old, bitter, devoted to the concept of servanthood who hates his current (at character introduction) master and pines for his previous ones. Betrays the main cast but cannot be set free because of his knowledge of secrets and in a YA book for modern sensibilities, killing him is foreclosed as an option. Takes a liking to his new master who is initially very uncomfortable with the relationship but settles into a sense of normalcy. Has a heroic moment in the climactic battle but the literal last mention in the books is the protagonist wondering if the elf will bring his master a sandwich.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean Quidditch World Cup has better reviews than Philosophers Stone on metacritic and that game is severely hampered by a bad but IP mandated ruleset and meaningful lack of content compared to the book/movie story games.