Tag: Nintendo

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Nintendo’s big Christmas 2025 videogame release is Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, a sci-fi exploration adventure in which female intergalactic bounty-hunter Samus Aran fights various hideous alien beings like Space Pirates, Metroids, and Mexicans (more on such videogame-based anti-immigrant memes later on). You wouldn’t immediately know Samus is female, however, due to the bulky nature of her rather masculine body-armor and visored helmet. This fact has allowed the usual gang of activist loons to pose the question: is Samus actually trans? (more…)

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David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019

No Tool is omnicompetent. — Arnold Toynbee

[W]ork that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowledge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge. — David Epstein (more…)