I'm not sure of this guys integrity when he starts by bemoaning the use of the term 'trans lobby'. If he read the full article with an open mind I don't see how he can complain about the term.

I'm not sur what his complaint is. Does he think it evokes images of congress as some elaborate drag show? The article is clearly referencing the invested interests of the corporations offering the treatments to vulnerable people. And lobbyng to make their expensive treatments as mandatory and commonplace as breakfast.

And I'm sorry but being proud of being 'woke' is, to me, like being proud you thought you were a chicken, and behaved appropriately, because a hypnotist told you , when you woke you would believe you were a chicken. Hypnotism is the only place in which the term woke means anything practical.

So wake up. Don't wait to be woke.

The page is blocked for Phishing. So I can't read it. But I have read Zizek's article and fail to see how anybody can say he's lost the plot.

I suspect the truth is more that, the plot Zizek is reading, is not the plot that is currently on offer.

Nothing. It would have zero impact on my life.

Not sure but I seem to remember Pinochio crying "Papa! Papa!" was a big element of the story

That said, I think I agree. Couldn't put my finger on it, but it's likely his voice that spoiled it for me. And it just wasn't particularly scary. I remember watching this as a kid and it terrified me.

They lost their audience of fun families.

Sorry. I missed some punctuation and appear to have misled you.

I do agree with you however. My response was a bit knee jerk, on reflection. Understanding games is not the same as blindly playing them.

I have always enjoyed simulation games and my comment refers to them specifically, but on reflection I do feel that understanding the games, involves understanding their limitations.

There is no game that can simulate the infinite creativity within the universe. If it could, all would have already been revealed. And surely we'd all be emjoying the good life, right now.

But what is this "good life" that you want to live? Is it morally good? spiritually? financially? I'd say living the good life is being free to express yourself, creatively. Simulation games do not facilitate this, but you wouldn't know it unless you were creative enough to test it's limitations.

In conclusion, I would ask "Is it not necessary to be already living the good life, in order to understand games?

No! Games lock you into a limited perspective of possible solutions. They can only simulate previous successful strategies.

You think it should be replaced with the sound of clicking on the time bar?

Oh, that would be dramatic.

Those sounds have become tools of artistic symbolism, they're as important as Hieroglyphics

I'm not sure you've answered the question.

The TVs are digital, but the VCR is analogue. Therefore the outputted signal is analogue. As I remember, when you ejected your cassette the screen turned to white snow on an anologue TV, but I've no reason to suppose it would be different on a digital. Particularly if the connections are analoogue.

Top film. One of those treasures that I go back to every now and then.

Mankind is being evolved through the TV/Movie/Phone screen.