Iceberg Surgeon

@virtualberg.bsky.social

A video game enjoyer who moonlights as a surgeon for my day job. Go Chiefs!

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

"By asking them to read, professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium." Your depressing read for the day (gift article). That quote is about students at HARVARD, by the way. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

theatlantic.com

As someone who played Bioshock Infinite at release and had many conflicting feelings about it, this easy was worth reading and sharing. The sentiments it conveys about games and life seem more relevant than ever. It was disheartening to see how little has changed. We could all do with more of this.

Scare-o-lyn Petit@carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I do think there could be more public debate and dialogue, more spirited exchanges of ideas about what it is we’re all doing here when we review games. Tevis Thompson made IMO a very stirring argument 13 years ago and really, not that much has changed since then. tevisthompson.com/on-videogame...

None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat. On the most important questions of war and peace, the president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality itself. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost

The president’s comments at the G7 summit revealed that he doesn’t understand the war he started—or the words that come out of his own mouth.

theatlantic.com

The game did the work of honoring Southern culture, and the way that it is built on African folklore. It saw the language we use in the South, the superstitions we build our lives around and said that it is not only worthy, but it is thanks to Black people and culture that we have this beauty.

The Real Southern Folklore Behind South of Midnight's World

South of Midnight is a love letter to the American South and in that we can find the real Southern folklore that inspires the game.

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