I am a software developer in IT at a university. My interest in accessibility comes from a desire to make sure that all of our students get a good chance at a quality education. It’s a work in progress, but we’re steadily improving. I have passed the CPACC exam and am now working on a WAS certification.

If it does turn out to be of the r/TRP variety, I suggest that the admins turn it over to some moderators that will turn it into a parody community. Something in the vein of Stormfront on Reddit with its storm theme. Maybe photos of literal red pills?

He only said that it coincidentally was somewhat closer to the ending he wrote. The Chinese censored version is just a bad ending. There’s a reason that Chinese people got upset when this was done. As for the author, he has said in other interviews like this one that he prefers the movie ending.

Problem is, the Hollywood Reporter interview doesn’t actually endorse mangling the ending. It’s merely noting a superficial resemblance to the book. He never says that it’s closer to his vision. The movie was constructed to lead up to the original ending, not to the mangled version presented by Tencent.

It’s worth noting that the Chinese censors reversed their decision not because Westerners were laughing at them, but because their own customers in China were outraged. There’s no need to justify Chinese censorship when it was so egregiously bad that they reversed themselves. It’s not fighting on behalf of the Chinese people, since they clearly weren’t happy with the decision.

You seem to handwave the bias created in people’s minds since 1999, which is 22 years. So if something has been wrong since decades, should that wrong thing continue to happen? Is this your logic?

It’s not wrong. It just has a different ending. One that worked visually much better than the original one did. This happens all the time in adaptations. Movies, TV, books, etc. have different strengths and weaknesses, so the plot has to be adjusted to fit. And you seem to be making the argument that this “fixed” the ending, when it really only bears a passing resemblance.

I think you just hate China because it is cool among Western world.

Why would I hate China for this? It doesn’t affect me or harm people substantially. For me, it’s just funny for how bad it is, in the same way as The Room is funny.

If you want to bat back at the West, maybe echo a point he actually made in the interview: Fight Club has been banned in many places in the US, so China’s reaction isn’t that out of the norm.

And here I was being told that Russia was just dropping by a couple of separatist regions by invitation and wasn’t going to invade. I’m getting ready for those goalposts to move like lightning. Oh no, that’s not imperialist bullying, merely a light shelling.

On what basis do you make that claim?

Don’t you just… want it to end?

Yes, but we’re largely helpless. Personally, I’m sitting about 9 megameters away as the crow flies. My president has made threats that have had basically no deterrent effect. I have even less power. So… we yammer.

I hope this doesn’t lead to poorly maintained planes falling out of the sky on a regular basis. We have already seen what an embargo can do to the vehicle situation in Cuba, where most cars are decades old. While a jet can last, it needs those parts. It would be horrible for a jet full of people to suffer for the ambitions of their leaders.

Casting this as a war primarily by the West/US is massively problematic. First, I agree that the US should be pulling support. However, Saudi Arabia and UAE are the ones keeping this war going.