Even if this was real, which it wasn't, mentioning a fancy and expensive sandwich is probably not gonna be a problem just as long as you talk about what you love about the sandwich rather than how expensive it is.
It's journalism anyways, people are gonna be used to having to hang out with rich assholes.
Also took a look at the article itself and he thinks doing right wing whataboutism and "this superficially sounds like this other thing" type shit was brave internal truthtelling at NYT.
Seems very plausible but at the same time the article isn't particularly good, I feel.
It's very general and doesn't really provide sources and citations for things like what the specific effects of certain drugs were, subprojects are named but the scope and focus not defined at all.
Particularly I feel like the connection between a treatment of anti-depressants and ECT to the process of "depatterning" is very loose, since depatterning involved full on sedation or induced paralysis while being subjected to looped tape messages, if that is what Paul Robeson was subjected to thats one thing, but intentionally excessive ECT treatment would be a separate treatment and method.
Basically my issue is I don't feel like this article is actually much more useful or informative to the reader than just reading basically the sentence "Paul Robeson was a victim of the CIA" on it's own, I don't think the references to specific MKULTRA terms are of much worth due to just kind of being strewn about conspiratorially.
Like searching for Subproject 111 seems to bring up descriptions of studying how people perform at simple tasks depending on various regular motivators, in isolation relatively mundane but something that would interest the CIA in connection to every other point in the MKULTRA spiderweb, but it doesnt help much to reference it in the article.
Neither does it feel very useful to reference doctors as having links to MKULTRA based on having been connected to hospitals that had projects going on there, because that eventually just becomes a huge % of psychiatrists and doctors in America at that time in general, due to the nature of MKULTRA as contracting out and funding experiments rather than having one special CIA guy for each project.
Also just a side note but they reference an "MKULTRA historian", "Mike Minnicino" without citing what he actually has written on the subject, and I cant seem to find anyone who fits that name and description except a now deceased actual Larouchite who seems to have been the one who coined the term "Cultural Marxism" before denouncing that work after Anders Breiviks terror attacks in Norway.
A lot of gamers just generally do not think critically about video games but just take a point of view where the general gaming audiences conservative opinions and tastes are a natural truth in regards to how video games should be looked at and judged.
I disagree, the horror in a horror game is a function of every system together, and depriving the player of intuitive controls and information through inconvenient camera or inefficient controls is not just valid but extremely effective.
Giving the player perfect controls and agency over their information can very easily lead to them outpacing the horror of the game simply by being able to perfectly handle the enemies, who no matter how freaky they look or scary they sound, will be less scary if they objectively are less of a threat.
Theres also the point of immersion into an actual role, if you have controls that let you do just about anything, your character kind of has to be able to also do just about anything in the world or just stop being a particularly coherent character, this kind of thing was commented on all the way back in Half Life with Gordon Freeman, academia dork, being able to inexplicably outfight anyone and anything thrown at him.
Silent Hill 2 remake is gonna have James Sunderland in the cutscenes and then in gameplay he's gonna turn into Jim "Silent" Hill, action man.
First person controls don't particularly make more sense on a person, nor does third person over the shoulder, they are all abstractions in service of particular ideas for gameplay and storytelling.
Tank controls and fixed camera have roles and functions that are different from FPS or shoulder camera controls.
Typical scorpio.
You just blow in from stupid town or is this a bad sarcasm bit?
To clarify, Bernie Sanders supported NATO bombing Yugoslavia with the rationale of preventing genocide, he has never to my knowledge apologized or disagreed with this since then, he has a history of being willing to physically bomb a people to stop genocide, yet now he balks at sanctions(which he also is very happy to deploy, unless they are geopolitically inconvenient to him.)
To broaden the other definitions offered, it also describes a deification of medical staff and presumes that they have legitimately better ability to define an individuals gender identity and internal feelings, and that therefore people should not be allowed to be trans and access basic tools of transition if not for having been allowed to do so by a doctor.
Giselle Gewelle(Top left) is kind of funny to me cause her whole concept is so like riddled with potential classic horrible transphobic stereotypes, from being part of an all girl group(infiltrator shit) to heavy sadist-sexual just flat out tones or even characterization that could veer right into split personality dumb writing.
But then the actual transphobic part of her portrayal is the author makes other characters be transphobic to her for no reason, literally just like a random gag that isnt even like, on the part of how she acts or is, fucking bizarre way to go about it. None of that shit I mentioned before actually ties into her gender identity like you would expect a shitty manga writer to do.
On top of that, the Disco Elysium sequel was cancelled back in 2022, the only project that was "paused" and not flat out cancelled was a standalone sci fi IP.
Sorta, but they still basically use cop tactics with breaking the law and torture on top of that, so it comes off less like critiquing the police from the outside and more closely approaches "if the good cops were allowed to do X that would solve things."
https://web.archive.org/web/20240226125852/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton-new-york-times/677546/
Unpaywalled archive.