As someone who works in Quality in the manufacturing space, the way these sort of decisions get made feels frighteningly familiar.

“stop overthinking it, it is just a game.”

Indeed, you should write about what you wish especially considering the authors usual material. Even so, I didn't have the relationship between distinctively modern ideas of diversity (in a positive light) and traditional empires within a critique of "Age of Empires", a real time strategy game! on my bingo card. These are the sorts of ideas for better or worse that only an "intellectual" will come up with.

As you might expect on a tech website, folks in the comments have immediately jumped to workarounds for this. Before we do that, spare a thought for whether our government should be allowed to conceive of something like this in the first place.

ideally, it should be political suicide to attempt to push something like this.

realistically, if it fails now due to public outrage, they will try to sneak it again in the future.

either way, the surveillance state beckons

This has to be a black mirror episode right?

Nearly fell out of my chair with that one. Who said that? Seems familiar

Often misattributed to Mark Twain but actually from Clarence Darrow, a lawyer I've never heard of: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasu....

Clarence Darrow is one of the most famous lawyers in US history, and is widely considered to perhaps be the best attorney in US history as well.

The main way normal people have heard of him was that he was the defense attorney in the Scopes monkey trial.

> He points up at the perfect blue sky. "I'll see him again."

By the time I got to this line, I could not stop the tears.

Oh puhleassee.....culture gatekeepers really need to lighten up a little. The worst song ever? Heck no. I love that song. Corporation games indeed!

I'm so glad these videos are still on there. As much as I consume youtube now, this brings back memories of when it was literally "YOUtube". Truly a glorious time!

> Once that competency band is established, we can work to bring everyone into the band (by providing training and support) rather than trying to stretch the band downwards to suit everyone regardless of experience.

Great point. This would also apply in the context of DEI hiring initiatives.