Hot take: Vice City is great gameplay-wise, perhaps the last concise GTA. Played today however, the amount of racist and sexist nastiness is absolutely astounding. The devs just didn’t give a FUCK. If you think about it, most of them probably work at Rockstar still - makes that place one to side-eye IMO.

What is not-stodgy about that pictured ship? When I think of “stodgy space fighter designs” I think of pointy jet-plane things made of metal, just like the thing in these pictures.

It delivers on the promise that MtG made many moons ago. Then broke a few years later chasing that green...

For women, Ballett is one of the few jobs more damaging, on aggregate, than pro modeling or acting. The pressure is EXTREME, but the mavens love it like that. Bs about “diamonds get formed through great pressure” and so on

She should have reflected on whether herthe way she tells her story reinforces harmful prejudices about sex work. After all, she has power, many sex workers don’t.

Then why are actual sex workers loudly criticizing her on Twitter?

“industry pressure group”

That’s because stars and celebrities are a manifestaton of our collective bird brains. There is no god reason, none that would hold up to real progressive scrutiny, to idolize anyone that way. Yet we do it, for our own entertainment, and kinda hate ourselves for it. That hate is projected outward.

CD Projekt Red is definitely slimy even by Eastern European game developer standards. All the Eurocentrism, authoritarianism and homophobia of the average Polish guy wrapped into the special narcicissm that develops in whites who know how to code...

Psshht: all the cool kids know linear games are where it’s at. Most modern game design theorists agree “choices” add nothing to gameplay and are really there to fulfil male fantasies of being in control and special.

The FPS-ness is kind of a turn-off for me, but really I’m not feeling it for a whole other reason: it looks so reactionary and... European. Like the Witcher games, the character and world design are permeated by that special brand of nasty Eurocentrism and archaic machismo that CD Projekt Red seem to LOVE.

Yeah... she’s mediocre even by the low standards of “black music”

Steve Vai is lame as fuck, as are all these Yngwie-type “rock virtuosos”. Conceited old white guys with a single talent that can be entirely replaced by a synthesizer and tracker.

It’s a litmus test essentially. If you can’t get over that word, you definitely won’t get over yourself.

Classic fascist economics is the redistribution of wealth from the hands of the officially despised class into the hands of those who are friends with the strong man on top.

The folks who still advocate for firing squads and a one-party system after that will generally self-identify as Maoists/Stalinists these days. We’re also a tiny minority lol.

It takes a bullet? WTF is that?

“They’re really proving that they aren’t any different than their counterparts on the right at this point.”

“They tolerate violence as a form of political expression, they seek to operate without any transparency and they and they alone determine what are acceptable and unacceptable thoughts and ideas.”

Right. I posit that I was born only 30 years ago, and nobody asked me what I thought about that whole “nation of immigrants” thing. Now it’s up for debate for the first time in my lifetime and I intend to have my say.