ONLINE/IRL: Articles for Saner Living, November 2020

ONLINE/IRL=2x0.5 of a whole life. Each month I curate the articles that resonated and plucked me out of the whitewater data stream for better or worse.

IRL

The American Veteran Experience and the Post-9/11 Generation

As the son of a Gulf War veteran, I try to stay tuned in with my age cohort who came of age and signed up for military service in the ‘aughts. With a volunteer military and a culture that nominally welcomes civilian commentary on our wartime policies, America can be a complicated place for veterans to navigate after returning home.

ONLINE

Culture Shock: The Multinational Mosaic of Overwatch League

RIP ESPN’s esports vertical, which shuttered this month after delivering some knockout reporting like Emily Rand’s deep dive on OWL’s gamer melting pot.

Riot on how League of Legends’ latest character may have gotten a little too real

I was gonna agree with most of the comments cited and gist of this article but actually fuck that dude who tweeted about “Sadge capitalism.” First of all, it’s just called a “sad pepe.” Second of all, after seeing the reveal for æspa, I think it’s probably better to personify a commodity than to commodify a personality.