I had totally forgotten the all-encompassing power of invoking the Rome Statute. For years my email was awash with claims that it basically prevented people from doing you any harm.

I feel like the NFL and HBO have fine-tuned their Hard Knocks product this season. It’s literally been “here’s a team meeting where Jon Gruden tells his players to work hard,” and “Antonio Brown’s helmet” with a few random “this player has a mom, or a dad, or a kid” moments tossed in.

I’m GenX and I hate it because it always makes me feel like I’m getting rooked. If I get what is objectively a good deal, the guy on the other side (who does this for a living) isn’t telling me something. He’s the kind of guy who thinks an honest man is a chump or he’d just tell me what’s going on.

Yeah, I like the pejorative of “hillbilly” but it’s just not accurate here. Maybe “flyover-state soccer mom with a Xanax habit.”

Apparently this is the most controversial take in the history of this site. 

The book is great.  Like a more literate Forrest Gump about movies.

So is it working better for fresh starts than for prior saves?  I was planning to start over in VR.

Yeah, this happened kind of suddenly during the reign of Bush II.

They believe the President of the United States.

He’s always had those flourescent white teeth, so I’m kind of at a loss as to what happened here. He looks like someone hit him in the face with a baseball bat and he figured out how to fix the bruise coloring but not the swelling.

Kind of an aside, but I feel like we’re about 2-3 underperforming albums from Katy Perry “returning to her Christian roots” and embracing the whole Christian-identity movement.

What???

The same even for baby car seats. It’s plastered all over the manual and embossed on the plastic. Although for most parents it doesn’t come up (because their kids outgrown the seat), I see people driving around with their kids in their friends’ old, beat up, hand-me-down car seats and I wonder if it’s better than no…

I get that this movie was an incredibly blunt instrument, and ridiculously heavy-handed. It’s a tough watch even more now than it was then. But I still see an inordinate number of people playing it out around me - at least the part before it goes full noir Office Space.

I love NMS but found Subnautica hard to get into.  Just feels more on rails - you have to get pretty far along before you’re not basically following a formula.

PacM̬̦̩̹̌͢a̪͓̮̼͍̗͑̿ͫn̛̥͈ͅ.  Every time I saw it I thought there was something smudged on my screen.

Going from VHS to VR so good it’s addictive and deadly in 4 years is certainly optimistic.

Right - wasn’t that a big issue in both movies? You watch a guy die in VR and you die too? Sort of like dying in your dreams?

Maybe that was Natalie Wood’s last movie.

Does anyone remember the 1995 Ralph Fiennes movie Strange Days, where he was an ex-cop in a dystopian war-zone Los Angeles who made a living selling “drugs” - which were VR minidiscs that were so real and immersive that somehow they messed people up?