I see this most regularly in consumption patterns--how fanfic and genre fic are hailed as champions of literacy, but are frequented largely by people who don't want to creatively engage with anything challenging or new.

They want to select from a menu of tropes and consume those continuously.

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”

JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

As video game journalism outlets steadily disappear, we don’t just miss out on coverage of indie games that need exposure to succeed. We also lose important industry watchdogs. Fewer reporters means less scrutiny of labor conditions and industry practices, shifting even more power to AAA publishers.

Hi, we heard about the layoffs and we're pissed off.

Read the statement here: nwu.org/polygon/

buying video games to fill up your steam library is a different hobby to actually playing the games lol

If anyone asks me what I’m thankful for this year they’re getting socked in the gut.

The cruelest part about the increasing precariousness of my workplace’s future is that I have known since day one how rare, how special, and how incredibly fragile a newsroom like this one is. It’s like watching someone hover above a butterfly, ready to pull its wings off.