mawhrin

also, to some extent, poul anderson's war of the wing-men.

misaimed fandoms are a thing; you'd be surprised (or not) how many hard right fans in poland do the witcher books and games have. similarly, there are still people who believe that verhoeven's starship troopers film is an affirmation, not repudiation of fascism (in the original book, and in general).

this is not people's laziness; it's that the practice is deceptive. don't reinforce the business narrative.

this is quite infuriating, i had a number of mozilla/firefox people telling me that this feature wouldn't work with opt-in (it's bullshit though) because too few users would enable it, and neither fucker asked himself : “wait, if we're afraid we can't convince our user base to buy-in, perhaps we shouldn't develop the feature?”

it's good the rats can't help themselves but to brag about what they're doing – in at least three different public places.

no, no, it's fine. the less readable they are, the better.

well, what gives. who could've expected that tracing woodbins is a liar, and a scoundrel.

dear me. doesn't he know that the actual art requires hate-skimming at most?

this modern example of censorship is pretty wild: uk actively enforces this ban despite the fact the sdlp mp for foyle, colum eastwood, used his parlliamentary privilege to get cleary's name into hansard, and at the time i still had a twitter account, the tweets naming the bastard were either reported or sweeped by some internal search. you won't see cleary's name mentioned on reddit either.

tbh i used mawhrin-skel just because i needed a new drone, and twitter (at the time) bonked my skaffen-amtiskaw persona – i named the murdering british soldier that cannot be named in the united kingdom (david james cleary); i definitely value other culture books more than player of games. :-)

i would think they didn't read it carefully, and/or until the end, and don't realise that ultimately it's gurgeh's revulsion at azad's societal rules, and him fully embracing the culture's values, that allows him to win and burn the empire to pieces.