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There is no rhyme or reason to it, no formula I can follow that will keep me from spending money and time on yet another message book that will end up being donated. But once in a blue moon there’s a message book that just clicks (sort of like brussels sprouts with bacon—who knew my kids would go crazy over that?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeBron James has written such a book. Yes, that LeBron James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m going to be straight-up honest: When it comes to basketball, I only watch college ball. Okay, I will be more honest: I only watch University of Virginia basketball. (Okay, I also watch Longwood University basketball, but they play in my hometown, and the wife of the men’s coach is my best friend, and the coach of the women’s team is a very good friend, so I have no choice.) I never played basketball, and I have won one game of HORSE in my entire life, but I am a huge fan of the pivot foot, won an NCAA bracket pool in 2012, and have seen \u003cem>Hoosiers \u003c/em>at least five times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But LeBron James is a man on a mission, and you don’t have to be an expert on basketball to get it. (Thank you, Mr. James.) In 2018, James opened the I Promise school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio for at-risk kids and kids who were deemed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/education/lebron-james-school-ohio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the worst performers in the Akron public\u003c/a> schools.” What began as a community service program continues to grow, and James’ new children’s book, \u003cem>I Promise\u003c/em>, is his latest attempt to reach out to kids. The result is a message book on par with brussels sprouts and bacon, as far as my kids are concerned.[aside postid='arts_13874840']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I Promise\u003c/em> is a beautiful book. Illustrator Nina Mata’s colors are bright and her children diverse, which James has said was his definite vision, but what really drew my kids in were the little moments she created, the little things that end up being big things: slamming down on your hand when you trip over a jump rope, or being the only one who is scared to get on the school bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there isn’t a main character in \u003cem>I Promise\u003c/em>, there is one little girl who appears several times. The image of her sitting on a bench, so small that her feet don’t even touch the ground, leaning her head on her brother’s shoulder after she fails to sink a basketball, brought me and my kids very near tears (my kids started hugging all over each other; it was nice while it lasted), and they immediately started talking about the challenges in their own lives, hard moments may seem small to grown-ups but are huge for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And LeBron James’ promises are huge too. “I promise to use kindness when I speak” is no small thing to kids who sass with almost every breath, and “I promise to remain strong and humble with every win and defeat” seems almost insurmountable to a six-year-old who cries when she loses at \u003cem>Sleeping Queens\u003c/em> (not to mention a ten-year-old who rubs it in when he wins at \u003cem>Sleeping Queens\u003c/em>)\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the promises are supposed to be huge. LeBron James will be the first to tell you that he didn’t know if the dreams he had as a kid would ever be a reality. He will be the first to tell you that it was the promises he made to himself that helped him forge a path out of his difficult childhood, but he will also be the first to tell you that promises are not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was growing up in Akron, I always had big dreams,” he writes. “Because of the situation we were in, I didn’t always know if those dreams would be possible. The purpose of these promises we make to ourselves and to each other, and that we’re sharing with kids across the world in this book, is to tell them they can do anything they put their minds to if they commit to doing the hard work.”[aside postid='arts_13877883']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it is hard work. It is hard work to speak with kindness and to pick yourself up after you fall, no matter how many times you promise yourself you will do it. 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"content": "\u003cp>For Lynette Gabriel, it started with a dressed-up Zoom brunch with girlfriends. She called in from her home in Oakland, in a leopard-print long-sleeve gown from the back of her closet. Snacking on smoked-salmon potato hash and sipping on a glass of rosé, Gabriel found her new house fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually now call ourselves ‘The Real Housewives of Quarantine’ in our house dresses,” Gabriel says and chuckles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884976\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/lynette_custom-850162b12b42783322a33b0434321b927d1717ef.jpg\" alt=\"Wearing this dress for a virtual brunch with friends, e-commerce merchandiser Lynette Gabriel declared it a house dress on Instagram.\" width=\"200\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/lynette_custom-850162b12b42783322a33b0434321b927d1717ef.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/lynette_custom-850162b12b42783322a33b0434321b927d1717ef-160x244.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wearing this dress for a virtual brunch with friends, e-commerce merchandiser Lynette Gabriel declared it a house dress on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Lynette Gabriel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Billowing linen. Cozy cotton. Floating silk. The house dress is having a 2020 renaissance. Flowy tunics, chic kimonos and muumuus, and ankle-length T-shirts are floating into more and more shopping carts—a sartorial coping mechanism for the modern pandemic age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clothes and mood are intertwined, argues fashion psychologist Dawnn Karen, author of \u003cem>Dress Your Best Life\u003c/em>. And so, the house dress is a perfect fit for this moment: a small expression of control during the uncontrollable, a taste of free-flowing freedom in a time rife with restrictions, a sense of structure and style on the days that feel hazy and dull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve actually gotten rid of some fancier dresses to make room for more house dresses because … I would say I’m wearing a house dress at least three times a week,” says Preeti Chaulk, a data manager from Cincinnati. House dresses followed her around Instagram—worn by influencers, advertised by brands—soon leaving a trail of striking floral designs \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/preetichaulk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on her own feed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the house dress got a bad rep—a throwback to the times when women’s sway was confined to housework. Its origin is said to trace to a Victorian gown that freed women of corsets but clad them instead in a baggy matronly smock named after “Mother Hubbard” from old nursery rhymes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the house dress got more shapely and stylish, its focus was chicness during chores—some in the 1940s and ’50s even came with matching oven mitts. Then, the house dress loosened up, made most famous by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/113715959318469855/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flamboyant caftans of Helen Roper\u003c/a> on the ’70s sitcom \u003cem>Three’s Company.\u003c/em> Still, a stigma trailed the garment: an artifact that’s dowdy, dated and perhaps involves “laying on your couch eating bonbons,” Chaulk jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all busy women, we’re doing things [in house dresses],” she exclaims. And OK, that might still involve some errands or a nap on the couch. Is it so wrong to crave an occasional bonbon? The 2020 house dress is not here to judge or cast expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/preeti_custom-58f3db393a5edf395f108af577cbb5bb5526ed94.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti Chaulk has worked from home for many years but says she's never owned more house dresses than now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Lynette Gabriel, it started with a dressed-up Zoom brunch with girlfriends. She called in from her home in Oakland, in a leopard-print long-sleeve gown from the back of her closet. Snacking on smoked-salmon potato hash and sipping on a glass of rosé, Gabriel found her new house fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually now call ourselves ‘The Real Housewives of Quarantine’ in our house dresses,” Gabriel says and chuckles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884976\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/lynette_custom-850162b12b42783322a33b0434321b927d1717ef.jpg\" alt=\"Wearing this dress for a virtual brunch with friends, e-commerce merchandiser Lynette Gabriel declared it a house dress on Instagram.\" width=\"200\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/lynette_custom-850162b12b42783322a33b0434321b927d1717ef.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/lynette_custom-850162b12b42783322a33b0434321b927d1717ef-160x244.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wearing this dress for a virtual brunch with friends, e-commerce merchandiser Lynette Gabriel declared it a house dress on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Lynette Gabriel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Billowing linen. Cozy cotton. Floating silk. The house dress is having a 2020 renaissance. Flowy tunics, chic kimonos and muumuus, and ankle-length T-shirts are floating into more and more shopping carts—a sartorial coping mechanism for the modern pandemic age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clothes and mood are intertwined, argues fashion psychologist Dawnn Karen, author of \u003cem>Dress Your Best Life\u003c/em>. And so, the house dress is a perfect fit for this moment: a small expression of control during the uncontrollable, a taste of free-flowing freedom in a time rife with restrictions, a sense of structure and style on the days that feel hazy and dull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve actually gotten rid of some fancier dresses to make room for more house dresses because … I would say I’m wearing a house dress at least three times a week,” says Preeti Chaulk, a data manager from Cincinnati. House dresses followed her around Instagram—worn by influencers, advertised by brands—soon leaving a trail of striking floral designs \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/preetichaulk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on her own feed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Then, the house dress loosened up, made most famous by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/113715959318469855/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flamboyant caftans of Helen Roper\u003c/a> on the ’70s sitcom \u003cem>Three’s Company.\u003c/em> Still, a stigma trailed the garment: an artifact that’s dowdy, dated and perhaps involves “laying on your couch eating bonbons,” Chaulk jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all busy women, we’re doing things [in house dresses],” she exclaims. And OK, that might still involve some errands or a nap on the couch. Is it so wrong to crave an occasional bonbon? The 2020 house dress is not here to judge or cast expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/preeti_custom-58f3db393a5edf395f108af577cbb5bb5526ed94.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti Chaulk has worked from home for many years but says she's never owned more house dresses than now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal prosecutors Monday announced charges against two men alleged with killing Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay—the DJ for the seminal rap group Run-DMC. Mizell was shot inside a recording studio in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference, Seth DuCharme, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, named Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington as the alleged murderers. DuCharme didn’t go into detail about what led to the charges, but said, “Today we begin to answer that question, who killed Jason Mizell and why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to newly filed court documents, the alleged murder was over a drug deal. Prosecutors say that Mizell was involved in trafficking cocaine across state lines, and that he had 10 kilograms of cocaine that Washington was supposed to sell in Maryland. Mizell then told Washington that he was being cut from the deal, which led to Washington and Jordan conspiring to kill him as retaliation. The two then allegedly entered the studio the night of the murder and “ultimately executed Mizell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jam Master Jay, Mizell was known as the backbone of Run-DMC, a group that was instrumental in bringing rap and hip hop into mainstream culture. Their third album, \u003cem>Raising Hell\u003c/em> (which featured hits like “It’s Tricky,” “My Adidas,” and “Walk This Way”), was the first rap album to go platinum, eventually reaching triple platinum status. Mizell also founded his own record label—JMJ Records—known for discovering such artists as Onyx and 50 Cent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mizell’s murder received on-and-off attention from authorities as well as \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/1576088/jam-master-jays-murder-a-timeline-and-the-key-players/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the media\u003c/a>. The case was the center of a 2018 episode of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718bAMt_Qrk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix documentary series \u003cem>ReMastered\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> that looked at not just the loose threads in the murder case but the lack of urgency from law enforcement in solving the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I’m overwhelmed by so many things right now, not the least of which is that I keep having to build wind turbines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not in my yard, you understand: in my imaginary city. The city I created playing the game \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em>. I play it on my Nintendo Switch, but you can play it on your Xbox, or your PlayStation, or your computer. It’s very much like the game \u003cem>Sim City \u003c/em>that I played years ago, and it proceeds in much the same way: You have some land. You build some roads, you create zoning (and really, who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>get into gaming in order to explore land-use planning?), you supply these areas with water and power, and then people begin to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it’s not a surprise that I, as someone who lives alone and finds myself with time to kill in these Pandemic Days, have made a lot more use of my Switch in the last few months than in the last couple of years. Yes, I played \u003cem>Animal Crossing: New Horizons\u003c/em> when it first came out—in fact, I bought a copy for a stranger on Twitter, because she was in a pinch and it had been such a balm to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also play \u003cem>RBI Baseball 20 \u003c/em>(the official MLB-sanctioned baseball game) and \u003cem>Super Mega Baseball 3 \u003c/em>(the funnier, more whimsical baseball game), and I play \u003cem>Paper Mario: The Origami King \u003c/em>(the fact that you throw confetti like Rip Taylor in that game is just the best). I loved \u003cem>Kentucky Route Zero\u003c/em>, which is a moody, melancholy point-and-click storytelling game with musical interludes and all kinds of cool stuff. I’m okay at \u003cem>Breakfast Bar Tycoon\u003c/em>, which requires you to learn how to assemble breakfast sandwiches and serve grumpy customers (though anything where you’re eventually rushing stresses me out), and I’m not even going to list the games I’ve tried at which I’m completely hopeless. (One of my dear friends is a devotee of NBA2K, a game I find as stressful as an ancient version of myself might have found a tiger attack.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than anything, I have been playing simulation games. Almost anything can be defined as a simulation of sorts, in that there’s always a reality that you’re living in, even if you’re jumping from platform to platform or shooting at bad guys. But here, I’m referring to the more methodical, world-creating, no-obvious-ending simulations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/629760717/put-your-face-in-it-how-gaming-helped-me-understand-my-dog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the farming game \u003cem>Stardew Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where you set up your farm and then grow things and sell them and try to make friends. \u003cem>Animal Crossing \u003c/em>is a simulation, too. But it’s unlike most simulations, in that it’s not particularly stressful. Not a lot of really terrible things can happen very easily; it’s more that if you don’t play, you’re not out there earning goodies and catching new bugs. I recently picked it up again after a couple of months off, and my biggest problem was that my animal friends had really missed me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the case in some of the other games I’ve been playing. Let me take you on a tour of a few of these imaginary worlds I’ve been building and, in some cases, messing up completely, while I hope that my actual world will steady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Cities: Skylines\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"This is a shot of only one of many very very bad traffic configurations I created in Cities: Skylines. Yes, two houses are on fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01.jpe 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a shot of only one of many very very bad traffic configurations I created in Cities: Skylines. Yes, two houses are on fire. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via Switch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First: back to those wind turbines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you set up your \u003cem>Cities: Skylines \u003c/em>city, it needs power. Back when I used to play \u003cem>Sim City\u003c/em>, you were boxed into starting with a coal-fired power plant, which you plunked down in some unfortunate part of your city. Coal plants are dirty, but they’ll juice up your town, and they’re what you can afford. In \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em>, you can start with coal—or you can put up wind turbines. You have to look at your maps and find a place to put them that’s windy enough, but they come in smaller units, so the initial cost for the power you need to get started is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, you’ll start seeing your citizens tweeting—sorry, I meant “chirping,” which is the game’s version of something that looks rather like tweeting—about how much they appreciate your commitment to green energy. (Of course, they also tweet complaints. Every time I see the chirp that gripes that it’s not that hard to create a working power grid, I say out loud something like “It’s harder than you think, jerk, so \u003cem>give \u003c/em>me a \u003cem>minute\u003c/em> if you \u003cem>don’t mind \u003c/em>and I will \u003cem>fix it\u003c/em>.” Then I go build some more power lines.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then you’ll add clean water, and your city will grow. Little bars at the bottom of the screen tell you how much demand there is for different kinds of zoning, and when you see that orange bar grow, that means your people want some Industrial Zone space. So you lay it out, and businesses move in. And then, before you know it, little lightning bolts start flashing over some of your residential housing. You’re short of power. If you still have money, you maybe build another wind turbine. Or two. Then the industrial buildings start flashing a little symbol that says they don’t have enough workers. So you build more residential areas. The population keeps growing. They begin to want things. They need the garbage collected. They need a medical clinic and a school, they tell you. They need fire trucks, they tell you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They need police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is true in \u003cem>Cities: Skylines \u003c/em>is, of course, only what the people who developed it decided would be true. (Although on some platforms, you can download mods created by users that tinker with the programming.) And what’s true here is that you add police stations and you add budgets for them, and that prevents crime. Because, as the in-game explanation says, the more stations and money, the more patrol cars. And patrol cars cut crime in the buildings they drive by. (You can eventually watch your police cars drive around.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police cars aren’t the only thing that reduces crime: education does too. And police cars don’t do any good if they can’t get around because of traffic or other road issues. But in this game, police presence affects the happiness of your citizens in only one way, which is that they feel safer when there are more patrol cars driving around. If you don’t have enough police—what the game defines as “enough police”—your crime rate goes up. What that looks like is that instead of the lightning bolts that flash on a building without power or the hardhat person who flashes on a building without enough workers, a face in a ski mask flashes on a building where the crime rate is too high. “Save us all from guys in ski masks,” your imaginary citizens are allegedly thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a small-“c” conservative bent to such a game, of course, because how things have worked is how they must always work. In a year in which even more attention than before has gone to calls to reform police, change how they operate, and potentially give them \u003cem>less \u003c/em>money, a strictly linear relationship between the number of police cars and the amount of happiness seems fanciful, like setting up the game so that adding roads increases a city’s population of red pandas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even these simulated worlds I am trying to build keep bumping into the real one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Two Point Hospital\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"In this shot of my hospital, you can see the clown treatment room, a couple of training rooms, a psychiatrist's office, and some vending machines, among other things.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea.jpe 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this shot of my hospital, you can see the clown treatment room, a couple of training rooms, a psychiatrist’s office, and some vending machines, among other things. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via Switch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also on the list of uncomfortable collisions with reality is \u003cem>Two Point Hospital\u003c/em>, one of my favorites. I realize that just as there were people who wanted to watch \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>early in the pandemic but I couldn’t imagine it, there are people who would never currently want to play a wacky hospital simulation, even if the people mostly have pretend diseases like “Animal Magnetism” and “Hurty Leg.” One of my favorites, though, is “Night Fever,” and if you zoom in on any of the patients who are afflicted with it, you’ll see every one of them is wearing a white suit and doing John Travolta moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this game, you build your GP’s offices and your treatment rooms, you hire doctors and nurses and assistants and janitors, and you install drink machines to try to keep the patients from getting angry. It’s all deeply goofy. You can build a whole treatment room that’s just for sick clowns. It looks like a circus tent. The clown goes into it, whirls around for a while, and is hopefully cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game’s sense of time is either intentionally or unintentionally hilarious: Patients will sometimes storm out of the hospital angry about the time it’s taken for a doctor to see them, and you’ll see in their information that they waited in your hospital for like a year and a half, drinking from your drink machines, eating from your snack machines, and playing your arcade games. That’s just too long for a sick clown to chill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People die in this game. (Side note: They die in \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em> too, at which point a skull and crossbones flashes on the house until the body is retrieved by a hearse and taken to a cemetery that—yes, of course—you must build. You do not want to know what happens if you refuse to build a cemetery.) They die of their jokey, made-up ailments, and then they become ghosts, and they float around the hospital scaring the other patients until a janitor, one that carries the special ghost cleanup qualification, sucks them up with a vacuum. It’s so weird that I kind of can’t resist it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing \u003cem>TPH\u003c/em> has going for it is that it doesn’t require you to build too much infrastructure. I become impatient during the phase of games like \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em> where you’re mostly connecting pipes in rectangles. In real life, I pride myself on not taking infrastructure for granted, but sitting in front of my TV with a controller, I want to be figuring out where my university will be and how many adorable parks I can have. I don’t especially want to be relocating pipes with pinpoint accuracy or managing traffic patterns by installing roundabouts. (Honestly, what good is building my own city if I can’t ban roundabouts?) \u003cem>Two Point Hospital \u003c/em>does make you place radiators to keep people from freezing, but it does not make you put in the hospital laundry or the transformers or anything else boring. More clowns! Fewer water pumps!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take note: This game was developed by a British studio, so there is no billing of patients and there are no insurance companies. So that’s a couple of doses of reality you do not have to worry about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Planet Zoo\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"'Planet Zoo'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Planet Zoo’ \u003ccite>(Frontier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This one isn’t on Switch (right now), so to play it, I have to sneak up to my office and sequester myself up there to play on my PC. Believe it or not, I’ve spent a number of hours in the tutorial sections and I have yet to start anything from scratch, which might mean that I’m not really cut out for the zoo management business. But I persevere! For the animals, you see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your task in this game is to build (or improve) a zoo. You “adopt” animals from various sources, you build habitats, you outfit them with the plants and the terrain that the particular animal needs, and you try to keep them happy. You also, ideally, rehabilitate and release some into the wild and get conservation points. \u003cem>Planet Zoo\u003c/em> has rapidly become the game I use to escape my considerable real-world anxieties. When you get a notice that a couple of your hippos are fighting (in retrospect, I think I mismanaged the population of adult males and they started going after each other [imagine a big eyes emoji here]), it will really get your attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, this is also a game where mistakes are viscerally upsetting. I have not had to mourn a zoo animal yet, but I had a very depressed pair of frogs the other day (I hadn’t adjusted the humidity correctly), and despite the fact that these frogs do not exist, I felt terrible. Sad frogs! My fault! This is also where I admit that I tend to talk to my animals a lot, out loud. “Oh no! Let’s fix your plants,” I will say to some imaginary lizards. It’s possible that isolation is taking a toll on me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, if you learn that your tapirs are bored and you give them some toys, you can watch the bar that represents their well-being slide up through the yellow zone and into the green zone. At least \u003cem>somebody \u003c/em>is having a good time, even if they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/group/tapirs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kinda funny-looking pig-elephants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884904\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"'Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures.’ \u003ccite>(Nintendo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Can I be straight with you? I didn’t know you could even play \u003cem>Roller Coaster Tycoon \u003c/em>anymore. This is another one that dates back to my CD-ROM game days, when mostly what I remember is trying to stop people from eating near the thrill rides, because it would mean I had to clean up after them when they got sick. I spent a lot of time on barf reduction strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I play it on the Switch, it’s richer than it used to be, but it’s still fundamentally the same game. You can still set up your merry-go-round first. Build a little path. Work your way up to arcade games, get some families hanging around, put in a lemonade stand. (I feel like it’s less about the upset tummies than earlier versions, too.) Eventually, you can set up your thrill rides and your big wooden coasters, and you can place a lot of wild topiary stuff for people to look at. This is one of the ones I play that’s the most straightforward. Unlike \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em>, where problems can rapidly cascade until everyone in town hates you and you’re broke and everyone is sick and the dead bodies are piling up and no one has electricity (hypothetically this could happen you know maybe), as long as you keep a general eye on the goings-on, it seems like your amusement park does not become some kind of haunted monstrosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike reality, this world seems to feature fewer unsettled stomachs than I remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No, Thank You: The Ones I Won’t Play\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final note: Not every imaginary world should be entered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t too far into poking around for interesting simulation games when I saw that one exists that’s called \u003cem>Prison Architect\u003c/em>. The reasons I was instinctively grossed out are probably obvious: I don’t find prisons whimsical, even more than I don’t find hospitals whimsical. I was intrigued, however, by a description that suggested that the point of it was that you could play around with rehabilitation options or “punitive” ones, and some part of me thought it might be interesting to explore how they impose consequences of your decisions. So I got it, and I fired it up, and I found that … the tutorial requires you to build an execution chamber with an electric chair. It shows you a graphic animation of your prisoner killing two people. You have to connect the electric chair directly to power, because it needs so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quit that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of time has been spent on the ethics of certain kinds of games. First-person shooters, for instance—what does it do to a person to practice shooting people? Or \u003cem>Grand Theft Auto\u003c/em>, which I once dabbled in years ago, only to quit because, of all things, I was a terrible driver. I never even \u003cem>got \u003c/em>to explore the causes of the moral panic; I just kept crashing the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as much as escape appeals at this point, I don’t need to build an electric chair. I have enough qualms about zoning my citizens to improve their land values, demolishing their homes to build police stations, building glass walls in my zoo so people can look at my fighting hippos, and letting clowns die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, I realized that the key to why these simulations will always be fantasies even when they’re dark fantasies is that you can leave. I managed a city so badly once that practically every house was flashing with some dystopian symbol of failure, so … I made a new one. Moreover, one of the reasons you have to keep your citizens happy is that \u003cem>they \u003c/em>can leave. They can leave your city, they can stop going to your amusement park, they can storm out of the hospital. There’s always an exit to elsewhere. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I’m overwhelmed by so many things right now, not the least of which is that I keep having to build wind turbines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not in my yard, you understand: in my imaginary city. The city I created playing the game \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em>. I play it on my Nintendo Switch, but you can play it on your Xbox, or your PlayStation, or your computer. It’s very much like the game \u003cem>Sim City \u003c/em>that I played years ago, and it proceeds in much the same way: You have some land. You build some roads, you create zoning (and really, who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>get into gaming in order to explore land-use planning?), you supply these areas with water and power, and then people begin to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it’s not a surprise that I, as someone who lives alone and finds myself with time to kill in these Pandemic Days, have made a lot more use of my Switch in the last few months than in the last couple of years. Yes, I played \u003cem>Animal Crossing: New Horizons\u003c/em> when it first came out—in fact, I bought a copy for a stranger on Twitter, because she was in a pinch and it had been such a balm to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also play \u003cem>RBI Baseball 20 \u003c/em>(the official MLB-sanctioned baseball game) and \u003cem>Super Mega Baseball 3 \u003c/em>(the funnier, more whimsical baseball game), and I play \u003cem>Paper Mario: The Origami King \u003c/em>(the fact that you throw confetti like Rip Taylor in that game is just the best). I loved \u003cem>Kentucky Route Zero\u003c/em>, which is a moody, melancholy point-and-click storytelling game with musical interludes and all kinds of cool stuff. I’m okay at \u003cem>Breakfast Bar Tycoon\u003c/em>, which requires you to learn how to assemble breakfast sandwiches and serve grumpy customers (though anything where you’re eventually rushing stresses me out), and I’m not even going to list the games I’ve tried at which I’m completely hopeless. (One of my dear friends is a devotee of NBA2K, a game I find as stressful as an ancient version of myself might have found a tiger attack.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than anything, I have been playing simulation games. Almost anything can be defined as a simulation of sorts, in that there’s always a reality that you’re living in, even if you’re jumping from platform to platform or shooting at bad guys. But here, I’m referring to the more methodical, world-creating, no-obvious-ending simulations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/629760717/put-your-face-in-it-how-gaming-helped-me-understand-my-dog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the farming game \u003cem>Stardew Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where you set up your farm and then grow things and sell them and try to make friends. \u003cem>Animal Crossing \u003c/em>is a simulation, too. But it’s unlike most simulations, in that it’s not particularly stressful. Not a lot of really terrible things can happen very easily; it’s more that if you don’t play, you’re not out there earning goodies and catching new bugs. I recently picked it up again after a couple of months off, and my biggest problem was that my animal friends had really missed me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the case in some of the other games I’ve been playing. Let me take you on a tour of a few of these imaginary worlds I’ve been building and, in some cases, messing up completely, while I hope that my actual world will steady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Cities: Skylines\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"This is a shot of only one of many very very bad traffic configurations I created in Cities: Skylines. Yes, two houses are on fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/citiesskylines_wide-55e580e36d840d545a63f7c83ae1bf61cd4e8d01.jpe 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a shot of only one of many very very bad traffic configurations I created in Cities: Skylines. Yes, two houses are on fire. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via Switch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First: back to those wind turbines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you set up your \u003cem>Cities: Skylines \u003c/em>city, it needs power. Back when I used to play \u003cem>Sim City\u003c/em>, you were boxed into starting with a coal-fired power plant, which you plunked down in some unfortunate part of your city. Coal plants are dirty, but they’ll juice up your town, and they’re what you can afford. In \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em>, you can start with coal—or you can put up wind turbines. You have to look at your maps and find a place to put them that’s windy enough, but they come in smaller units, so the initial cost for the power you need to get started is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, you’ll start seeing your citizens tweeting—sorry, I meant “chirping,” which is the game’s version of something that looks rather like tweeting—about how much they appreciate your commitment to green energy. (Of course, they also tweet complaints. Every time I see the chirp that gripes that it’s not that hard to create a working power grid, I say out loud something like “It’s harder than you think, jerk, so \u003cem>give \u003c/em>me a \u003cem>minute\u003c/em> if you \u003cem>don’t mind \u003c/em>and I will \u003cem>fix it\u003c/em>.” Then I go build some more power lines.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then you’ll add clean water, and your city will grow. Little bars at the bottom of the screen tell you how much demand there is for different kinds of zoning, and when you see that orange bar grow, that means your people want some Industrial Zone space. So you lay it out, and businesses move in. And then, before you know it, little lightning bolts start flashing over some of your residential housing. You’re short of power. If you still have money, you maybe build another wind turbine. Or two. Then the industrial buildings start flashing a little symbol that says they don’t have enough workers. So you build more residential areas. The population keeps growing. They begin to want things. They need the garbage collected. They need a medical clinic and a school, they tell you. They need fire trucks, they tell you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They need police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is true in \u003cem>Cities: Skylines \u003c/em>is, of course, only what the people who developed it decided would be true. (Although on some platforms, you can download mods created by users that tinker with the programming.) And what’s true here is that you add police stations and you add budgets for them, and that prevents crime. Because, as the in-game explanation says, the more stations and money, the more patrol cars. And patrol cars cut crime in the buildings they drive by. (You can eventually watch your police cars drive around.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police cars aren’t the only thing that reduces crime: education does too. And police cars don’t do any good if they can’t get around because of traffic or other road issues. But in this game, police presence affects the happiness of your citizens in only one way, which is that they feel safer when there are more patrol cars driving around. If you don’t have enough police—what the game defines as “enough police”—your crime rate goes up. What that looks like is that instead of the lightning bolts that flash on a building without power or the hardhat person who flashes on a building without enough workers, a face in a ski mask flashes on a building where the crime rate is too high. “Save us all from guys in ski masks,” your imaginary citizens are allegedly thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a small-“c” conservative bent to such a game, of course, because how things have worked is how they must always work. In a year in which even more attention than before has gone to calls to reform police, change how they operate, and potentially give them \u003cem>less \u003c/em>money, a strictly linear relationship between the number of police cars and the amount of happiness seems fanciful, like setting up the game so that adding roads increases a city’s population of red pandas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even these simulated worlds I am trying to build keep bumping into the real one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Two Point Hospital\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"In this shot of my hospital, you can see the clown treatment room, a couple of training rooms, a psychiatrist's office, and some vending machines, among other things.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/twopointhospital_wide-7f480849e6907b16c3c7f6fd7c98e44637ba50ea.jpe 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this shot of my hospital, you can see the clown treatment room, a couple of training rooms, a psychiatrist’s office, and some vending machines, among other things. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via Switch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also on the list of uncomfortable collisions with reality is \u003cem>Two Point Hospital\u003c/em>, one of my favorites. I realize that just as there were people who wanted to watch \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>early in the pandemic but I couldn’t imagine it, there are people who would never currently want to play a wacky hospital simulation, even if the people mostly have pretend diseases like “Animal Magnetism” and “Hurty Leg.” One of my favorites, though, is “Night Fever,” and if you zoom in on any of the patients who are afflicted with it, you’ll see every one of them is wearing a white suit and doing John Travolta moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this game, you build your GP’s offices and your treatment rooms, you hire doctors and nurses and assistants and janitors, and you install drink machines to try to keep the patients from getting angry. It’s all deeply goofy. You can build a whole treatment room that’s just for sick clowns. It looks like a circus tent. The clown goes into it, whirls around for a while, and is hopefully cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game’s sense of time is either intentionally or unintentionally hilarious: Patients will sometimes storm out of the hospital angry about the time it’s taken for a doctor to see them, and you’ll see in their information that they waited in your hospital for like a year and a half, drinking from your drink machines, eating from your snack machines, and playing your arcade games. That’s just too long for a sick clown to chill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People die in this game. (Side note: They die in \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em> too, at which point a skull and crossbones flashes on the house until the body is retrieved by a hearse and taken to a cemetery that—yes, of course—you must build. You do not want to know what happens if you refuse to build a cemetery.) They die of their jokey, made-up ailments, and then they become ghosts, and they float around the hospital scaring the other patients until a janitor, one that carries the special ghost cleanup qualification, sucks them up with a vacuum. It’s so weird that I kind of can’t resist it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing \u003cem>TPH\u003c/em> has going for it is that it doesn’t require you to build too much infrastructure. I become impatient during the phase of games like \u003cem>Cities: Skylines\u003c/em> where you’re mostly connecting pipes in rectangles. In real life, I pride myself on not taking infrastructure for granted, but sitting in front of my TV with a controller, I want to be figuring out where my university will be and how many adorable parks I can have. I don’t especially want to be relocating pipes with pinpoint accuracy or managing traffic patterns by installing roundabouts. (Honestly, what good is building my own city if I can’t ban roundabouts?) \u003cem>Two Point Hospital \u003c/em>does make you place radiators to keep people from freezing, but it does not make you put in the hospital laundry or the transformers or anything else boring. More clowns! Fewer water pumps!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take note: This game was developed by a British studio, so there is no billing of patients and there are no insurance companies. So that’s a couple of doses of reality you do not have to worry about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Planet Zoo\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"'Planet Zoo'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/planet-zoo-is-a-sim-from-the-creators-of-planet-coaster-in-the-style-of-zoo-tycoon.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Planet Zoo’ \u003ccite>(Frontier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This one isn’t on Switch (right now), so to play it, I have to sneak up to my office and sequester myself up there to play on my PC. Believe it or not, I’ve spent a number of hours in the tutorial sections and I have yet to start anything from scratch, which might mean that I’m not really cut out for the zoo management business. But I persevere! For the animals, you see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your task in this game is to build (or improve) a zoo. You “adopt” animals from various sources, you build habitats, you outfit them with the plants and the terrain that the particular animal needs, and you try to keep them happy. You also, ideally, rehabilitate and release some into the wild and get conservation points. \u003cem>Planet Zoo\u003c/em> has rapidly become the game I use to escape my considerable real-world anxieties. When you get a notice that a couple of your hippos are fighting (in retrospect, I think I mismanaged the population of adult males and they started going after each other [imagine a big eyes emoji here]), it will really get your attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, this is also a game where mistakes are viscerally upsetting. I have not had to mourn a zoo animal yet, but I had a very depressed pair of frogs the other day (I hadn’t adjusted the humidity correctly), and despite the fact that these frogs do not exist, I felt terrible. Sad frogs! My fault! This is also where I admit that I tend to talk to my animals a lot, out loud. “Oh no! Let’s fix your plants,” I will say to some imaginary lizards. It’s possible that isolation is taking a toll on me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, if you learn that your tapirs are bored and you give them some toys, you can watch the bar that represents their well-being slide up through the yellow zone and into the green zone. At least \u003cem>somebody \u003c/em>is having a good time, even if they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/group/tapirs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kinda funny-looking pig-elephants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884904\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"'Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures-switch-screenshot05.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures.’ \u003ccite>(Nintendo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Can I be straight with you? 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It’s much more apt to go looser and loopier, sprinkling magic spells, sacred codexes, secret passages and the occasional light tomb-raiding into the mix. It’s also far more eager to serve up the satisfyingly grisly thrills of pulp horror—bad guys getting their bloody, cosmic comeuppance, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for every fun, if wildly anachronistic, element—needle-drops like Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money,” say, or abdominal muscles like Majors’—\u003cem>Lovecraft Country \u003c/em>is always careful to re-center itself on its characters, and their hemmed-in status as Black women and men in 1950s America. Between every narrow escape and exposition dump about “finding the missing pages from the forbidden tome” or whatever, it gives its characters and their relationships breathing room. 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"content": "\u003cp>The promotional black and white photos from Taylor Swift’s new album \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em> show the pop star shedding her lipsticked glamour for an ethereal frock to frolic in the meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-a8s8OLBSE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who’ve watched these signifiers bubble up on corners of the internet for the past few years, Swift had just introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/7/28/21344659/taylor-swift-bon-iver-exile-folklore-isolation-album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new aesthetic to the mainstream\u003c/a>. 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In that way, it might be seen as the antidote of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/19/892728595/your-doomscrolling-breeds-anxiety-here-s-how-to-stop-the-cycle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“doomscrolling,”\u003c/a> a habit that’s intensified during today’s crises in which one scrolls through the endless feed of bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CDucMupByQK/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was comfortable and soothing and kind of helped people process things,” said Amanda Brennan, the content and community associate with Tumblr who’s better known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/21/tumblrs-meme-librarian-has-the-best-job-on-the-internet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">company’s “meme librarian.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blogging platform saw its first use of the cottagecore hashtag in March 2014. Six years later, Tumblr has seen an increase in fascination with bucolic imagery. Between March and April of this year, the engagements with #cottagecore jumped 153%, according to Tumblr. The number of “likes” went up more than 500% in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It coincided with how we saw COVID-19 proliferate and more and more cases pop up in the U.S.” Brennan said. “It basically trends with when the CDC releases more data on COVID cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884677 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.47.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.47.10-PM.png 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.47.10-PM-160x204.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are subcultures within the aesthetic: \u003ca href=\"https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5xjgj/cottagecore-aesthetic-lgbt-teens-tumblr-tik-tok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“#cottagecorelesbians” is popular\u003c/a> among lesbians; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.ca/ashnadhillon1998/cottagegore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cottagegore\u003c/a>” and “goth cottagecore” are darker versions of the same aesthetic. There are adjacent styles, too: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/grandmacore/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grandmacore\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/goblincore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goblincore\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/frogcore?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frogcore\u003c/a>.” References to Black Lives Matter and other social justice causes are \u003ca href=\"https://cia-sunflower.tumblr.com/post/625455675678556160/source-x#notes?ref_url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=900498227&live=1#_=_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found in many posts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evienne Yanney, a 16-year-old in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/8/3/21349640/cottagecore-taylor-swift-folklore-lesbian-clothes-animal-crossing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Vox\u003c/a> that, as a lesbian, she found solace in Instagram’s cottagecore feeds, because “many of us aren’t really accepted in the modern world, so the thought of running away to a cottage is really, I guess, kind of soothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884678 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.51.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.51.50-PM.png 548w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.51.50-PM-160x152.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cottagecore aesthetic has caught the attention of a small museum in Berkshire, England, because it conjures up the hands-in-the-dirt imagery of European peasants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When these aesthetics rise up you think, ‘Oh, this is all a bit new,’ ” said Joe Vaughan, digital editor of the Museum of English Rural Life. “But there is actually a longer legacy of people putting on the clothes of the poor and kind of frolicking around in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1290590669157867520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral tweet\u003c/a> from the museum, Vaughan facetiously pinned French queen Marie Antoinette as an “icon” in the formation of cottagecore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 18th century, Antoinette, inspired by the naturalistic paintings of the time—something of a Tumblr board of her own—commissioned the construction of a rustic retreat in the greenery outside the Palace of Versailles, known as the Hamlet. The string of cottages gave her the feeling of escapism not far from palace grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884675 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/gettyimages-954607730_custom-e5297dc9fe7a970b09a9aa5eab1dc8b5e3d3f84d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queen would play the part of a shepherdess, alongside real servants, farm workers and milkmaids, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1290590699507929088?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Vaughan\u003c/a>—a “pastoral nostalgia for a simple life [that] is simply not reflective of lived experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When farming has been so difficult, there has been some sort of pain point in that people are going rural when the actual reality of rural existence has been a nightmare of COVID-19, like everything else,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His intention, he said, is not to castigate those indulging in these ideals, but rather to point out that their indulgence has precedence in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Tumblr’s Brennan says cottagecore is no longer just on-screen daydreaming, but is manifested in real lifestyle changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Dia Mowery, a 20-year-old who lives in Florida, that means sharing homemade bread with the people around her, thrifting clothes, buying local or growing her own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cottagecore is about embracing sustainability, community and kindness,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now Mowery, who chose to postpone college this year due to the pandemic, said, “I’m finding that a lot of mental fatigue and anxieties have left me unable to do a lot of the things I’d like to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on social media, her homebound isolation is customized to evoke a sense of escape, where you’ll find old annotated books, freshly cut strawberries and vintage dresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“It was comfortable and soothing and kind of helped people process things,” said Amanda Brennan, the content and community associate with Tumblr who’s better known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/21/tumblrs-meme-librarian-has-the-best-job-on-the-internet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">company’s “meme librarian.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blogging platform saw its first use of the cottagecore hashtag in March 2014. Six years later, Tumblr has seen an increase in fascination with bucolic imagery. Between March and April of this year, the engagements with #cottagecore jumped 153%, according to Tumblr. The number of “likes” went up more than 500% in that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It coincided with how we saw COVID-19 proliferate and more and more cases pop up in the U.S.” Brennan said. “It basically trends with when the CDC releases more data on COVID cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884677 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.47.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.47.10-PM.png 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.47.10-PM-160x204.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are subcultures within the aesthetic: \u003ca href=\"https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5xjgj/cottagecore-aesthetic-lgbt-teens-tumblr-tik-tok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“#cottagecorelesbians” is popular\u003c/a> among lesbians; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.ca/ashnadhillon1998/cottagegore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cottagegore\u003c/a>” and “goth cottagecore” are darker versions of the same aesthetic. There are adjacent styles, too: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/grandmacore/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grandmacore\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/goblincore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goblincore\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/frogcore?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frogcore\u003c/a>.” References to Black Lives Matter and other social justice causes are \u003ca href=\"https://cia-sunflower.tumblr.com/post/625455675678556160/source-x#notes?ref_url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=900498227&live=1#_=_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found in many posts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evienne Yanney, a 16-year-old in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/8/3/21349640/cottagecore-taylor-swift-folklore-lesbian-clothes-animal-crossing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Vox\u003c/a> that, as a lesbian, she found solace in Instagram’s cottagecore feeds, because “many of us aren’t really accepted in the modern world, so the thought of running away to a cottage is really, I guess, kind of soothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884678 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.51.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.51.50-PM.png 548w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-10-at-3.51.50-PM-160x152.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cottagecore aesthetic has caught the attention of a small museum in Berkshire, England, because it conjures up the hands-in-the-dirt imagery of European peasants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When these aesthetics rise up you think, ‘Oh, this is all a bit new,’ ” said Joe Vaughan, digital editor of the Museum of English Rural Life. “But there is actually a longer legacy of people putting on the clothes of the poor and kind of frolicking around in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1290590669157867520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral tweet\u003c/a> from the museum, Vaughan facetiously pinned French queen Marie Antoinette as an “icon” in the formation of cottagecore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 18th century, Antoinette, inspired by the naturalistic paintings of the time—something of a Tumblr board of her own—commissioned the construction of a rustic retreat in the greenery outside the Palace of Versailles, known as the Hamlet. The string of cottages gave her the feeling of escapism not far from palace grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884675 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/gettyimages-954607730_custom-e5297dc9fe7a970b09a9aa5eab1dc8b5e3d3f84d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queen would play the part of a shepherdess, alongside real servants, farm workers and milkmaids, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1290590699507929088?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Vaughan\u003c/a>—a “pastoral nostalgia for a simple life [that] is simply not reflective of lived experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When farming has been so difficult, there has been some sort of pain point in that people are going rural when the actual reality of rural existence has been a nightmare of COVID-19, like everything else,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His intention, he said, is not to castigate those indulging in these ideals, but rather to point out that their indulgence has precedence in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Tumblr’s Brennan says cottagecore is no longer just on-screen daydreaming, but is manifested in real lifestyle changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Dia Mowery, a 20-year-old who lives in Florida, that means sharing homemade bread with the people around her, thrifting clothes, buying local or growing her own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cottagecore is about embracing sustainability, community and kindness,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now Mowery, who chose to postpone college this year due to the pandemic, said, “I’m finding that a lot of mental fatigue and anxieties have left me unable to do a lot of the things I’d like to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on social media, her homebound isolation is customized to evoke a sense of escape, where you’ll find old annotated books, freshly cut strawberries and vintage dresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>What TV are you bingeing these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question you’ve probably been asked a lot—and asked others—five months into the pandemic. Movies are shut. Theater is on hold. So there’s not much else to do. I myself can’t stop watching Korean dramas (just finished \u003cem>Crash Landing On You\u003c/em>) and reruns of \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> on Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our blog covers the globe, so we were curious—what shows are people in other countries obsessed about in this pandemic? We asked reporters in nine countries to find out. — \u003cem>Malaka Gharib\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Argentina: Time travel and missing kids in a German drama\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq2iTHoLrt0&feature=emb_logo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Argentina, people are pondering existential questions. What is the meaning of life? What is time? And it’s not just because of the pandemic. Can it be because nearly everyone is watching the Netflix series \u003cem>Dark\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspenseful show from Germany, set in the town of Winden in the present day, explores time travel and the philosophical issues related to it. Members of four families try to discover the reason why children have mysteriously disappeared by heading to the past and future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could have a lot of debates [around these existential topics] thanks to this show,” says Maria Pirsch, a 30-year-old \u003cem>Dark\u003c/em> fan and producer and photographer. She studied physics for a time and is interested in the idea of time travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Launched in 2017, \u003cem>Dark\u003c/em> is now in its third season. The latest installment was released on June 27 in Argentina—and some fans were so excited they watched it at 4 a.m. when it premiered. “I do not need sleep, I need answers,” wrote \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gjoeldiaz/status/1276586300443897861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">someone\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Pujol, a technician in a pathology laboratory, confesses that when Season 3 came out she watched two episodes and, after sleeping a little, watched the remaining six in a row. And like many fans stuck home in the pandemic, she found the quarantine to be a good excuse to watch the first two seasons over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dark\u003c/em> is available in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Netflix\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anita Pouchard Serra is a photojournalist based in Argentina. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>India: An iconic ’80s show with a demon king and a kidnapped wife\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vgGkWGcnQk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ramayan\u003c/em>, a series based on Hindu mythology, tells the story of Lord Ram as he goes into exile, fights the demon king Ravan who kidnapped his wife—then finally returns to his hometown Ayodhya to be crowned king.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the plot of an iconic show that first aired in 1987—when TV sets weren’t common in India and neighbors would make a pilgrimage to the nearest home with TV to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, fans \u003ca href=\"https://theprint.in/india/prasar-bharti-likely-to-telecast-ramayan-and-mahabharat-after-public-demand/388118/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanded its return\u003c/a> and state-run TV channel Doordarshan National (DD National) obliged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DD National began re-telecasting Ramayan on March 28. That week, the channel’s viewership jumped to \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://images.assettype.com/afaqs/2020-04/ab06bf4a-974a-4eb7-a05a-11e813eda4e2/COVID_19__TV_Smartphone_Consumption_During_Crisis__Edition_3__Final.pdf__;!!Iwwt!CEfgPG8uPPJXImZJEbEysEmSvkM5u9YrMFfrd8Vr4vC-LLPr5aUepN6RJBBs%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">545 million\u003c/a> from about 9 million in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media is now full of nostalgic posts from people reliving their childhood memories—many with their own kids this time. \u003cem>Ramayan\u003c/em> is now streaming on Disney-owned \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.hotstar.com/in/tv/ramayan/s-2695/seasons/season-1/ss-7674__;!!Iwwt!DvrJMIkvoeUsaEJlms3PWL9c2G_xODYnsdbQhqgQ015gqQJy7ZN_-K6ynXW4%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotstar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/shweta_shalini/status/1243753829042024448\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sushmita Pathak is a producer for NPR in Mumbai. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Colombia: A telenovela about 3 brothers out for revenge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8k5PqoXJ9A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colombia, telenovela addicts are binge-watching an old favorite, \u003cem>Pasión de Gavilanes\u003c/em>, which has made a comeback 17 years after it originally aired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TV network Caracol says it is re-running the Colombian telenovela—the \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ratingcolombia.com/2010/12/cifras-de-audiencia-en-colombia.html__;!!Iwwt!E6DRtHfrt_nkVrRLVaqcnztpDRaEi4GjJq_F1PLZqtP5ahC7w37Tb2uWzip6%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-most watched\u003c/a> show in its history — during lockdown at its audience’s request, given that recordings of current shows are on pause due to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 188 episodes, \u003cem>Pasión de Gavilanes\u003c/em> tells the story of three brothers looking to avenge the suicide of their sister, Libia Reyes. She was in a relationship with a wealthy married man named Bernardo Elizondo and got pregnant. Then he died. She went to his family to tell them that she was having his baby. And after Elizondo’s wife humiliated her, she threw herself off a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reyes brothers descend upon the Elizondo household posing as bricklayers. Their plan is to seduce Elizondo’s three daughters as payback for their sister’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Fernanda Martínez, 24, says she is re-watching the novela with her mother during lockdown out of “pure and simple nostalgia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilda Cárdenas Vergara, 57, who watched the novela in its heyday, enjoys reliving the experience with her family during lockdown. “There’s not one boring episode,” she told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone feels the same. Some Twitter users \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/virustropical7/status/1288651760182140933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">say\u003c/a> the storyline is classist, as Gabriela, the wife of late Elizondo, punishes her wealthy daughters for falling in love with working class men. Others \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Maria_RuizG1/status/1280313198323929088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">say\u003c/a> it \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ivanyou23/status/1280183522406383618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">glorifies\u003c/a> physical and verbal violence against women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pasión de Gavilanes is currently \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RatingColombia/status/1290632728883462146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading\u003c/a> national TV ratings and is the most-watched show on Colombian Netflix. It’s also available for streaming in Spanish on U.S. Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophie Foggin is a journalist based in Medellin, Colombia, covering politics, human rights, history and justice in Latin America.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kenya: Rich man falls for poor woman—but he has another lover\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk3j_UvI7bo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most-watched TV shows in Kenya during the pandemic is \u003cem>Maria\u003c/em>, a 30-minute Kenyan drama that revolves around the life of Luwi, the youngest son of a wealthy family. Luwi falls in love with gorgeous—and poor—Maria. Only he has another lover, and when she finds out, things get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before COVID-19 came along, the Swahili-language drama was one of the most popular TV shows in the country, according to the GeoPoll Audience Measurement Report, which measures viewership. In fact, when the actor Brian Ogana, who plays Luwi, visited a primary school in Kibera in March, hooting and hollering \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7PHyaSQlgE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">young fans\u003c/a> could barely contain their excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people love Yasmin Said, the actress who plays Maria. “You have bewitched my family! As from 6 p.m., people in this family run up and down to prepare so as not to miss you in action. Congratulations,” \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u7PHyaSQlgE?t=2150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote one person on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New episodes continue to air throughout the pandemic. The half-hour show is broadcast from Monday to Friday at 7:30 p.m., with reruns on Saturday from 4-6 p.m. There are about 150 episodes to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show has been one of Julia Anyango’s favorite ways to pass time since the pandemic began. A teacher by profession, living in the Korogocho slums in Nairobi, she’s had to stop work due to school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her favorite character is Maria: “She gives the rich family problems because she is coming from a ghetto life,” Anyango says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuEmiZShnp8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episodes\u003c/a> can be found on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thomas Bwire is a co-founder and editor at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/tags/habari-kibra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Habari Kibra\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a news hub that focuses on reporting stories from the Kibera community. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Israel: Spies, lovers and Iran’s nuclear reactor are part of the plot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLkwk5r5034\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hot new binge-watch in Israel is \u003cem>Tehran\u003c/em>, an Israeli spy thriller about Israel’s covert war with its archenemy Iran. A young Mossad agent goes on her first mission to her home city of Tehran to help Israel take out an Iranian nuclear reactor, but the mission goes awry and she ends up falling in love with an Iranian activist who opposes the regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is based on real-life tensions between the Jewish state and the Islamic republic’s rulers. It appears to be the first popular Israeli TV series to focus on contemporary Iran. Israel and Iran have hostile relations and Iran bans Israelis from visiting. So there’s a lot of curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main Iranian character is portrayed by Iranian-born actor Shervin Alenabi. Based in London, he says his participation in the show is controversial in Iran—and it means he may not be able to travel back to the country and see his family because Iran strictly forbids interaction with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 8-episode show, with each episode about 45 minutes long, premiered on June 22 on Israel’s public TV broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.kan.org.il/page.aspx?landingPageId=1211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kan\u003c/a>. The show is in Hebrew, Farsi and English with Hebrew subtitles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daniel Estrin is NPR’s international correspondent in Jerusalem. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>China: Kids solve a double homicide\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X0zYbf1pYQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China is enthralled by \u003cem>The Bad Kids\u003c/em>, a Chinese thriller TV drama that tells the tale of three young children who decide to take justice into their own hands after they accidentally capture on camera a cliffside double homicide. In their pursuit of the truth, the kids are caught up in revenge and blackmail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s filled with thrilling twists and turns: it obfuscates ethical boundaries for its characters and tests its viewers’ moral compass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12-episode series premiered on the Chinese streaming platform iQIYI on June 16. 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But most important, the show is seen as the herald of a new age in Chinese television, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/cute-but-cruel-the-drama-hailed-a-chinese-tv-milestone-hidden-corner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one\u003c/a> that expands beyond traditional genres like period pieces, family drama and the Sino-Japanese War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy Cheng is a producer for NPR in Beijing. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Senegal: Love affairs—and lots of controversy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_OBIP_PXFQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senegal’s TV series \u003cem>Infidéles—\u003c/em>or “unfaithful” in French—is dripping with drama. Within the first few minutes of the first episode, audiences were introduced to half a dozen characters and a few different entanglements. A wife and husband dispute over social media posts, but quickly make up; one woman confides to her male friend that her boyfriend—their mutual friend—is physically abusing her; and two friends pressure a third friend who prefers to wear the hijab to dress more provocatively and study less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series, which premiered on July 18 on YouTube and Senegalese TV channel SenTV, airs every Wednesday and Friday. And it has both fans and detractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the country of 16 million, the YouTube videos get well over 1.5 million views, but most people prefer to watch it on TV as it airs, says Senegalese cultural critic Aboubacar Demba Cissokho. “People are watching it on TV so that afterward on Facebook or WhatsApp they can engage in the reactions that are happening,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show has also created controversy. After a character with the same name as the mother of a historic Muslim leader in the country—Mame Diarra—was portrayed in a scene that discussed same-sex relations (which are outlawed in Senegal), a leader of a local conservative nonprofit organization, Jaamra, publicly denounced the name choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, says Cissokho, the episode’s controversy highlights the contentious LGBT issues in the country. “People are already talking about these issues, but the debate becomes a public debate, and it takes on another dimension when it’s portrayed on television.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ricci Shryock is a freelance photographer and journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. Follow her on Instagram at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ricci_s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@ricci_s\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pakistan: They call it ‘The Muslim Game of Thrones’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfdXu9jZFKs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pakistan, the must-watch show is a wildly popular Turkish drama that local media call “The Muslim Game of Thrones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Resurrection: Ertugrul \u003c/em>dramatizes the story of the man it’s named for—the father of the founder of the Ottoman Empire. It was the last sweeping Muslim empire, ruling swathes of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for more than 600 years, falling apart in the aftermath of World War I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5-season series, which first premiered on the Turkish channel TRT 1 in 2014, has drama, heroes and heroines and chaste romance with Muslim characters at its center. That’s key to its popularity in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority country of more than 200 million people, where it’s seen as gripping, wholesome family fare. And it lets Pakistanis indulge in nostalgia for the glories of the Muslim past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has affected me most about [Etrugrul is] the way he united the entire tribe and formed the Ottoman Empire,” \u003ca href=\"https://images.dawn.com/news/1185375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says Muhammad Shahzad Cheema to local newspaper \u003cem>Dawn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He is such a fan that he arranged for a statue of the character of Ertugrul from the show to be erected in his Lahore housing community in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://images.dawn.com/news/1185319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prime Minister Imran Khan\u003c/a>, a playboy-turned-conservative, is also a fan. 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That is, until 17 years later, when the Nurses’ younger daughter spotted a girl who bore an uncanny resemblance to her at her new high school, and a DNA test proved they were sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zephany Nurse’s stranger-than-fiction story is now the basis of a popular South African Netflix series, \u003cem>Blood & Water\u003c/em>. The series turns up the glamor on the Nurses’ story by giving it the Gossip Girl treatment, with the fictional retelling set against the backdrop of an ivy-covered Cape Town prep school whose students come home to waterfront mansions and spend their weekends drinking cocktails at beachside hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For South Africans, the show is an escapist fantasy, but for a country used to wincing through Western retellings of their stories (think Morgan Freeman’s strangely American-accented Nelson Mandela in \u003cem>Invictus)\u003c/em> it’s also a reversal of roles. “I’ve seen a lot of excitement… in the States, to see young Black kids be represented,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a32647424/ama-qamata-blood-and-water-netflix/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ama Qamata, the show’s lead, told \u003cem>Elle\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Blood & Water\u003c/em>, only the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81044547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix original series from Africa\u003c/a>, has been streaming globally on the platform since May and was renewed for a second season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ryan Lenora Brown is a reporter based in Johannesburg, South Africa. 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She was in a relationship with a wealthy married man named Bernardo Elizondo and got pregnant. Then he died. She went to his family to tell them that she was having his baby. And after Elizondo’s wife humiliated her, she threw herself off a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reyes brothers descend upon the Elizondo household posing as bricklayers. Their plan is to seduce Elizondo’s three daughters as payback for their sister’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Fernanda Martínez, 24, says she is re-watching the novela with her mother during lockdown out of “pure and simple nostalgia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilda Cárdenas Vergara, 57, who watched the novela in its heyday, enjoys reliving the experience with her family during lockdown. “There’s not one boring episode,” she told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone feels the same. 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Congratulations,” \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u7PHyaSQlgE?t=2150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote one person on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New episodes continue to air throughout the pandemic. The half-hour show is broadcast from Monday to Friday at 7:30 p.m., with reruns on Saturday from 4-6 p.m. There are about 150 episodes to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show has been one of Julia Anyango’s favorite ways to pass time since the pandemic began. 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A young Mossad agent goes on her first mission to her home city of Tehran to help Israel take out an Iranian nuclear reactor, but the mission goes awry and she ends up falling in love with an Iranian activist who opposes the regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is based on real-life tensions between the Jewish state and the Islamic republic’s rulers. It appears to be the first popular Israeli TV series to focus on contemporary Iran. Israel and Iran have hostile relations and Iran bans Israelis from visiting. So there’s a lot of curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main Iranian character is portrayed by Iranian-born actor Shervin Alenabi. 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In their pursuit of the truth, the kids are caught up in revenge and blackmail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s filled with thrilling twists and turns: it obfuscates ethical boundaries for its characters and tests its viewers’ moral compass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12-episode series premiered on the Chinese streaming platform iQIYI on June 16. And it’s won over China’s demanding viewers—it received a 8.9/10 rating on the notoriously hard-to-please review site Douban. Even \u003cem>The People’s Daily\u003c/em>, the official Communist Party paper, published an \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_8053235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> praising the show for being “an exemplar of high-quality short series.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese drama shows tend to favor interminable plot lines (\u003cem>The Story of Yanxi Palace\u003c/em>, another wildly popular TV series from two summers ago, required serious commitment to finish all 75 episodes.) But most important, the show is seen as the herald of a new age in Chinese television, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/cute-but-cruel-the-drama-hailed-a-chinese-tv-milestone-hidden-corner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one\u003c/a> that expands beyond traditional genres like period pieces, family drama and the Sino-Japanese War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy Cheng is a producer for NPR in Beijing. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Senegal: Love affairs—and lots of controversy\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/b_OBIP_PXFQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/b_OBIP_PXFQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Senegal’s TV series \u003cem>Infidéles—\u003c/em>or “unfaithful” in French—is dripping with drama. 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After a character with the same name as the mother of a historic Muslim leader in the country—Mame Diarra—was portrayed in a scene that discussed same-sex relations (which are outlawed in Senegal), a leader of a local conservative nonprofit organization, Jaamra, publicly denounced the name choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, says Cissokho, the episode’s controversy highlights the contentious LGBT issues in the country. “People are already talking about these issues, but the debate becomes a public debate, and it takes on another dimension when it’s portrayed on television.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ricci Shryock is a freelance photographer and journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. 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It was the last sweeping Muslim empire, ruling swathes of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for more than 600 years, falling apart in the aftermath of World War I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5-season series, which first premiered on the Turkish channel TRT 1 in 2014, has drama, heroes and heroines and chaste romance with Muslim characters at its center. That’s key to its popularity in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority country of more than 200 million people, where it’s seen as gripping, wholesome family fare. And it lets Pakistanis indulge in nostalgia for the glories of the Muslim past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has affected me most about [Etrugrul is] the way he united the entire tribe and formed the Ottoman Empire,” \u003ca href=\"https://images.dawn.com/news/1185375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says Muhammad Shahzad Cheema to local newspaper \u003cem>Dawn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>The prospect of spoofing \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> represents nothing new under the (binary) sun(s). The franchise has become an institution, and mocking institutions remains a thriving American cottage industry. \u003cem>Saturday Night Live \u003c/em>started taking whacks at \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>way back in the ’70s, as did \u003cem>MAD \u003c/em>magazine, and the short-lived sitcom \u003cem>Quark\u003c/em>. As a piece of cultural furniture, \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>‘s ubiquity, driven by multiple television series, movies, books, games, comics and fan-fiction, means its tropes have entered the collective consciousness, and have thus become easy to recognize—and to make fun of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why, one could even construct an entire, very-good movie just by riffing on \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>(1999’s \u003cem>Galaxy Quest\u003c/em>), as well as an entire, not-very-good television series (FOX’s mystifying \u003cem>The Orville\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between all these previous efforts and the one represented by \u003cem>Star Trek: Lower Decks\u003c/em>, which premiered Thursday August 6th on CBS All Access, is a simple one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the comm signal is coming from \u003cem>inside \u003c/em>the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True, the franchise has poked the gentlest of fun at itself, over the years—a throwaway line here, a winking reference to previous \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>series there. But \u003cem>Star Trek: Lower Decks\u003c/em> is an official \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>property\u003cem>, \u003c/em>its yuks are both nerdily meta and rigorously in-canon, and they go—more broadly than boldly, it must be said—where no \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>has gone before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The premise is such stuff as comedy sketches are made on: Starships are huge, and staffed by hundreds of officers and crew members, so why does every \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>story need to revolve around the bridge, and the same 7 or so characters? Why not focus instead on the grunts doing the tedious, everyday work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter: the \u003cem>U.S.S. Cerritos\u003c/em>, a California-class Federation starship tasked with “Second Contact” missions, which may not be as flashy and high-profile as the “First Contact” missions marking humanity’s initial encounters with alien races. No, the \u003cem>Cerritos\u003c/em>‘ remit is, according to by-the-book striver Ensign Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid), all about following up, which is “still pretty important—we get the paperwork signed, make sure we’re spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Normals, you can skip this paragraph. Nerds, keep reading, here’s what you want to know: \u003cem>Lower Decks\u003c/em> takes place in the waning days of the \u003cem>TNG \u003c/em>era—2380, to be specific, just after the events of \u003cem>Star Trek: Nemesis\u003c/em>. And no, you haven’t heard of California-class starships before; they were created for the series. Also, the official shorthand designation for the series we’re encouraged to adopt is \u003cem>ST:LDS, \u003c/em>which makes it sound like a show about Space-Mormons on a five-year mission to seek out planet Kolub, but whatever.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creator/showrunner Mike McMahan made his bones on the animated series \u003cem>Drawn Together\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Rick and Morty\u003c/em>—shows whose darker, more cutting humorous sensibilities would seem to clash with \u003cem>Trek’s \u003c/em>traditional commitment to ennobling, optimistic uplift. But that disconnect turns out to work for the new series, in most respects. For the nerds, in-jokes and easter eggs abound, testifying to the creators’ fondness for the source material, while viewers who don’t know a nacelle from a Jeffries Tube will likely appreciate the show’s sheer joke-density—and the fact that, as an animated series, it comes outfitted with an unlimited special effects budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3RkBKedKWw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s important, because despite its bright, broad, cartoony look, the planets of \u003cem>Lower Decks\u003c/em> can appear legitimately otherworldly, instead of all looking like the Vasquez Rocks outside of Santa Clarita, California. Alien races can look alien—obviating previous series’ need to, as one wag (me) once put it, “Grab a dayplayer, slap a hunk of spirit gum between their eyebrows, paint ’em Prussian blue and shove ’em in front of the camera”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtly comic nature of the series combines with its animated status to drive its tone—and its plots—to extremes of slapstick violence that previous, staid-by-comparison \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>series would never condone nor tolerate. As a result, the \u003cem>U.S.S. Cerritos\u003c/em> seems like one of the most hazardous workplaces in the history of Starfleet. (A character gets sliced to the bone by a Klingon bat’leth two minutes into the pilot, just for starters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMahan and his fellow writers seem to recognize this tendency for broadness, and have made clear efforts to keep the show’s conflicts grounded in its characters. Tawny Newsome voices Ensign Beckett Mariner, whose reflexively rebellious, obnoxious demeanor belies her considerable competence and diplomatic skills. Quaid’s querulous take on Ensign Boimler presents him as a rank-obsessed rule-follower whose interactions with Mariner allow him to begin to shed his considerable inhibitions. Audience-surrogate Ensign Tendi, voiced by Noel Wells, is an eager, just-arrived science officer who’s perpetually enthralled by even the most boring/disgusting tasks, and Eugene Cordero voices Ensign Rutherford, an engineer recently outfitted with Vulcan-designed cybernetic enhancements that seek to tamp down his emotional response. (A \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>character who’s struggling with the battle between human emotion and logic: Take a drink!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show’s at its strongest when it sticks most closely to its premise: background \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>characters going about their days, intersecting with the glamorous bridge crew only glancingly, if at all. But over the course of the first four episodes made available to press, our four Ensigns keep encountering the ship’s steely captain (voiced by Dawnn Lewis) a ridiculously square-jawed first officer (voiced by Jerry O’Connell) more and more frequently, enmeshing themselves in command decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also, at least in the early going, a tendency for the in-jokes to tread ground that many stylish \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Trek\u003c/em>-adjacent black booties have trod repeatedly by now—the holodeck has prurient possibilities! etc. etc.—which is something the show’s going to want to keep an eye on, if the idea is to boldly joke where no one has joked before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nothing else, though, \u003cem>Star Trek: Lower Decks\u003c/em>, by staking its claim as the officially licensed \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> Comedy Series, will likely throw \u003cem>The Orville,\u003c/em> with its untenable mix of glib goofs and maudlin drama, into a profound existential crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews, showrunner McMahan calls \u003cem>ST:LDS\u003c/em> the “first \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>comedy series,” implying that others may follow. The mind races. Then reels. Then boggles. Wacky sexy hijinks on Risa! A fish-out-of-water story featuring a Xindi-Aquatic on a Class H planet! Captain Janeway’s hyper-evolved space-lizard offspring being forced to move back in with her!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once we get enough official Trek comedies, surely reality series can’t be far behind? \u003cem>Star Trek: Ro Laren’s Drag Race\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Star Trek: The Real Housewives of Ceti Alpha V.\u003c/em> (aka \u003cem>The Eel World\u003c/em>). And inevitably, as if ordained by the Prophets, \u003cem>Star Trek: Keeping Up With The Cardassians\u003c/em>. Mark my words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The prospect of spoofing \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> represents nothing new under the (binary) sun(s). The franchise has become an institution, and mocking institutions remains a thriving American cottage industry. \u003cem>Saturday Night Live \u003c/em>started taking whacks at \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>way back in the ’70s, as did \u003cem>MAD \u003c/em>magazine, and the short-lived sitcom \u003cem>Quark\u003c/em>. As a piece of cultural furniture, \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>‘s ubiquity, driven by multiple television series, movies, books, games, comics and fan-fiction, means its tropes have entered the collective consciousness, and have thus become easy to recognize—and to make fun of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why, one could even construct an entire, very-good movie just by riffing on \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>(1999’s \u003cem>Galaxy Quest\u003c/em>), as well as an entire, not-very-good television series (FOX’s mystifying \u003cem>The Orville\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between all these previous efforts and the one represented by \u003cem>Star Trek: Lower Decks\u003c/em>, which premiered Thursday August 6th on CBS All Access, is a simple one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the comm signal is coming from \u003cem>inside \u003c/em>the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True, the franchise has poked the gentlest of fun at itself, over the years—a throwaway line here, a winking reference to previous \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>series there. But \u003cem>Star Trek: Lower Decks\u003c/em> is an official \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>property\u003cem>, \u003c/em>its yuks are both nerdily meta and rigorously in-canon, and they go—more broadly than boldly, it must be said—where no \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>has gone before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Alien races can look alien—obviating previous series’ need to, as one wag (me) once put it, “Grab a dayplayer, slap a hunk of spirit gum between their eyebrows, paint ’em Prussian blue and shove ’em in front of the camera”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtly comic nature of the series combines with its animated status to drive its tone—and its plots—to extremes of slapstick violence that previous, staid-by-comparison \u003cem>Trek \u003c/em>series would never condone nor tolerate. As a result, the \u003cem>U.S.S. Cerritos\u003c/em> seems like one of the most hazardous workplaces in the history of Starfleet. (A character gets sliced to the bone by a Klingon bat’leth two minutes into the pilot, just for starters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMahan and his fellow writers seem to recognize this tendency for broadness, and have made clear efforts to keep the show’s conflicts grounded in its characters. Tawny Newsome voices Ensign Beckett Mariner, whose reflexively rebellious, obnoxious demeanor belies her considerable competence and diplomatic skills. Quaid’s querulous take on Ensign Boimler presents him as a rank-obsessed rule-follower whose interactions with Mariner allow him to begin to shed his considerable inhibitions. Audience-surrogate Ensign Tendi, voiced by Noel Wells, is an eager, just-arrived science officer who’s perpetually enthralled by even the most boring/disgusting tasks, and Eugene Cordero voices Ensign Rutherford, an engineer recently outfitted with Vulcan-designed cybernetic enhancements that seek to tamp down his emotional response. 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