KoboldCoterie

It's an interesting question, but whose responsibility are you proposing it is to find another actress? Who's paying that actress? Is the library going to pay twice as much, or is the existing actress expected to work the same amount of time for half the money to accommodate this second actress?

At the end of the article the quote from the black actress I think eloquently summed up what feels weird about it.

It's a weird argument to make here, though, because this isn't a white actor vs. black actor question at all. The library isn't choosing between one or the other. There's only one actor, no matter what characters are being played. If they were responding by saying "Actually we want to hire a black actor to play these characters," I'd get it, and agree with that, but they aren't. They're just choosing to not have black figures represented at the performance at all, which seems... worse, somehow? I don't know.

Given the specifics, I don't see any problem with what she's doing. It's not like a white woman was being cast to play a black character instead of a black woman; she put together a one-woman show that she is the sole performer in. The library even (initially) asked her to play the black characters, then changed their mind.

If someone here disagrees, I'd be interested to hear why.

I didn't say I was unwilling to change my mind; I said that it became clear that it wasn't going to be changed by the people replying. If you want to debate it, my DMs are open, but leave the ad hominem attacks out of it or it'll be a very short discussion.

Well, to answer your other comment, it's replies like this that made me realize it's just not worth trying to have a discussion with the folks who disagree with me, because I won't change their mind, and they won't change mine. I think you (and the majority of folks replying here) are not considering the simple fact that taking away spaces occupied by people you dislike will not make them go away - it'll just make them try to take over your spaces, instead (hence the Nazi bar analogy).

Regardless, I'm not going to engage any further here. If you want to have a rational discussion, you can DM me and I'll happily discuss it with you. I had my say, everyone else had theirs, and I don't really think there's anything more that needs to be said.

Simply adding one word would have made the title much less misleading.

'JD Vance gets briefly suspended from bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post''

As it stands, it strongly implies that his first post caused him to get suspended, and that he's still suspended now. I'm not even sure why this is considered newsworthy. Why did someone even bother writing this article? Answer is, I'd wager, because the headline makes it sound sensational when it's in fact not, and it drives clicks.

You don't think that the omission of the very relevant followup fact from the title is misleading, perhaps intentionally so, to someone only glancing at headlines?

Imagine if the police were looking for your neighbor, mistook your house for theirs, arrested you thinking you were them, then minutes later released you when they realized their error. Would an article titled 'TachyonTele arrested in own home' be a fair summary of those events?

Looking at this list of 3rd party games, I wonder if the reason for this is that most of these games have been available on other platforms already for quite some time. If you were interested in e.g. Hades 2, unless you just didn't have a PC available, you probably weren't waiting for an at-the-time unannounced Switch 2 to play it on. Heck, Cyberpunk is 5 years old at this point. Street Fighter 6 is 2 years old and was on a lot of other platforms.

I expect we might see different results when we see more 3rd party games getting simultaneous launch on Switch 2 and other platforms.

Nice of him to give them the heads up, so they can all go find new jobs now. Sure would be poetic if they all just moved elsewhere and left Amazon understaffed.

That one really baffles me. Prey 2017 would have been right up my alley, but I completely ignored it because I didn't like Prey 2006. By the time I discovered that it was a game I'd have been interested in, I picked it up on sale for $10 or so. I wonder how many other people had similar experiences.