Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970
Text ID: I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall—like seeking love in a whorehouse.
hot singles with empty blogs in your area won’t stop following you! you can’t block them fast enough! it’s too late! they have taken the bridge and the second hall. we have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. the ground shakes… drums. drums in the deep. we cannot get out. a shadow moves in the dark… we cannot get out. they are coming.
explaining the concept of “blorbo from my shows” to a tudor era peasant and when i’m finished they grab my hand and start excitedly gesturing at a poster advertising a performance of shakespeare’s hamlet at the globe theatre
*nods thoughtfully and makes a mental note to explain the term “girlboss” next*
… he claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18:
“Dear Mr. Gamgee,
It was very kind of you to write. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the ‘Sam Gamgee’ of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic. So that perhaps you will not be displeased at the coincidence of the name of this imaginary character of supposedly many centuries ago being the same as yours.”
He proceeded to send Mr Gamgee a signed copy of all three volumes of the book. However, the incident sparked a nagging worry in Tolkien’s mind, as he recorded in his journal:
“For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed ’S. Gollum’. That would have been more difficult to deal with.“― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
As a public service announcement, someone scraped every single text file on GameFAQS in March 2020 for archival purposes, and you can find it on archive.org with the title “Gamespot TXT GameFAQs – Full Archive.” You can download the whole thing (it’s about 2 gigs) if you want to spite Wikia’s attempts to make themselves the gatekeepers of all fan knowledge.
Can someone elaborate what Fandom Inc is doing to GameFAQs? I know they bought it in October, but if they have any specific plans to take it down or make it unusable, they haven’t made them public.
I made an account a few weeks ago because I have some maps I wanted to upload that have been on the verge of being complete for the last month or so, and as far as I can tell, it’s still intact, with guides dating back to the 90s. I didn’t even know Fandom Inc had bought it at the time.
Not that they won’t do some terrible redesign/decide they don’t want to pay for this actually in the future, or that it’s not important to archive things against this happening. But I can’t find anything saying it’s gone now? It’s just quieter.
The response I’ve seen from GameFAQs management since the Fandom deal is:
Nothing changes in terms of ownership. Copyrightable content is still owned by the original author unless we pay for the content. Aforementioned content can be removed at the request of the author.
Having said that, at this point nothing has really changed yet. We haven’t been given any directives (other than to update the site owner in the footer) and haven’t been given any inclination as to what, if anything, might be planned for the site outside of our own roadmap, which already extends through the entirety of 2023 and into 2024. Would I assume they have absolutely no plans in store for the site at all and will just let us keep doing what we’re doing without any input from them? No, I wouldn’t. Do I think the site is going to crash and burn? No, I don’t. Would I hold it against anyone to pull their content if they felt the site was going in the wrong direction at any point? Absolutely not. But as of now, I would at least ask that you wait and see like I’m doing. I’ve fought the good fight for this site for almost 20 years at this point and will continue to do so until I retire or become too big of a pain in someone’s ass and they give me the boot.
For now, I’m (cautiously) optimistic that this change is for the best. RV is a firm that buys and sells brands. Fandom is a company that revolves around gaming and entertainment. They purchased some great gaming and entertainment brands. It’s a better fit for the brands.
Edit: No, people won’t be able to edit other people’s guides.
I was thrilled to have documented credits for a video game that includes this category.
I’m catching typos in the bible. To Whom shall I send these revisions?
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