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Good morning, Townies! With the launch of 1.0 coming later this month, the TTC devs are looking for playtesters to start next week!

TO BE CONSIDERED: PLEASE FILL OUT THE GOOGLE FORM BY MAY 10TH

Watch the trailer here!

Google drive folder linked in the post image can be found here!

They've also made some performance improvements and implemented some bug fixes. Full patch notes available on Steam!

VOTE HERE!

I'm going to preface this with two things. One, I'm a domestic violence survivor so I'm sensitive when it comes to violence against women. Two, I am not the show's target demographic. My daughter (27F) comes over to watch it with me (46F) every Sunday. I like the show but I know it's not aimed at me.

Anyway.

I was deeply uncomfortable during the "Cassie cries over her bloody nose while Nate gets nearly beaten to death" scene... not specifically because it was violence against women, but because we were clearly supposed to be laughing at her. This was confirmed when I watched the post-episode BTS stuff and they talked about how hilarious it was.

And... I understand that Cassie has gotten more and more ridiculous as the series has progressed and I understand how at first blush, on the surface, that scene seems funny... but is it really? It's framed as physical comedy, with the focus on crying-Cassie while Nate runs around and gets dragged and beaten, but this is a young woman, fresh from an already stressful day, unaccustomed to fear and danger at this level who has just been thrown to the ground by a stronger, bigger man and is bleeding all over her wedding dress. She's justifiably terrified and probably in a little bit of shock and that's apparently a foundation for ridicule.

I'm not a fan of the direction Sam Levinson has taken the series (still watching because Zendaya is brilliant), but between what he wrote for Jules at the beginning of the episode and how he treated Cassie at the end, I don't know how anyone can defend him against the allegations that he hates women.

Maybe it's just me because of my acknowledged biases, but if we're going to talk about violence against women can we not make it a joke? "Oh, that Cassie, look how ridiculous she is, having the temerity to cry because she was just attacked. Let's all point and laugh." Ick.

EDIT:

For the people in the comments claiming this scene wasn't supposed to be funny or that we weren't supposed to laugh at Cassie - with respect, please see the behind the scenes interviews where they explicitly state that's exactly what happened. Cassie was supposed to try to help and fight back at first. The scene was re-written to justify ridiculing a beaten woman because if she's a selfish bimbo who cares if she's bleeding. Sam even talks about how he's crying with laughter watching it.

Yes, that's also Psych on my TV in the background.