@MisterArix Indeed. And I think about that every time I see an American journalist or editor say "corporations are entities, not people" in response to somebody misusing the pronouns.

On top of the legal and moral insanity of corporate personhood, clinging to the singular form in language use absolves the corporation's executives/management of responsibility for their actions and dehumanises the people who work there.

Random language oddity: Collective nouns get third-person plural pronouns (they/them) in British English but third-person singular pronouns (it/its) in US English. British English also distinguishes between organisations as legal entities (it) vs groups of individuals (they), depending on context.

Hence why it's usually correct in the UK/Australia to write, say, "[company or team name] find peace in loss of their sandwiches" whereas in the US it should always be "[company or team name] finds peace in loss of its sandwiches."

I did an interview with Ludica about football games and A Tale of Two Halves [post is in Italian]. https://www.ludicamag.com/a-tale-of-two-halves-intervista-a-richard-moss-storia-videogiochi-di-calcio-bitmap-books/

For my American friends grappling with how to survive (and resist authoritarianism) through the next four years, this seems like good advice: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump

The moment where my worlds collided: legendary horror game composer Akira Yamaoka's brief remarks on doing a track for football game Winning Eleven 4 (ISS Pro Evo for those of us in PAL regions), in response to a question I snuck into our TerrorBytes documentary interview with him.

Here's a German-language review of my new book, noting that it goes beyond nostalgia to [also] provide a sound analysis of the cultural and technical evolution of football video games. https://gentlegamer.de/2024/10/a-tale-of-two-halves-the-history-of-football-video-games/