Naw, the lobster has a thicker shell and firmer grasp on reality.

Defunding the police isn’t about anarchy: it’s about justice and harm reduction. Cops are much more likely to be domestic abusers. They don’t do shit about sexual assault cases. Their unions refuse any sort of meaningful oversight and consequences for egregious professional behavior and they actively pass around bad…

They work on so many levels: iirc, the families in VCA always have SECRETS that are hidden and the heroine is always trapped, desperately looking out at the world she can never quite join.

There was buzz on Twitter last Friday that he actually solicited someone to write the piece and that Cotton was the first taker. It’s Twitter, so of course everything with a grain of salt, but it came from some journos I respect, so I’m putting it in the realm of possibility.

Some transmen menstruate, as do some genderqueer/non-binary people. That’s why “people who menstruate” is not just more accurate, but it’s also easier and faster type out than “those women, non-binary, and transmen who menstruate.”

I mean, one of the great iconic images of the Black Power fist is from the 68 games and Peter Norman had the sense to ask his fellow athletes about how to appropriately support them and it was not raising a white fist. That was over 50 years ago, so...

No mention of the Bacardi rum cake?https://www.food.com/recipe/bacardi-rum-cake-14499

fragile, toxic masculinity

They should keep it in the vault, maybe make it available to media and history scholars. The people who need the extras wouldn’t watch them and instead would glory in the racism and white saviorism. Why re-release a racist movie? The pain it would inflict and the white supremacy it supports greatly outweighs any…

I saw it in the theatrical re-release in the 80's as a kid and it is incredibly racist.

It’s almost like the cops would rather beat the shit out of people than protect property.

The drop in quality without the drop in prices in the 00's is what mostly turned me off department stores.

I was thinking this about books, too. I wonder if reading and gaming stimulate more and/or different parts of the brain than just watching something

Maybe not handsome, but cute in a guy-next-door sorta way.

Yes! I only ever played Skyrim, but for me, what sticks with you is the solitude. It’s this huge, beautiful open world and it’s just you (and maybe a house carl or hand-picked mercenary) stumbling through the landscape to discover caves, ruins, shrines, etc.

This. I will gladly pay a higher one-time price for a quality 100+ hr single-player gameplay experience (no glitches, good writing, good mechanics). I will even happily buy quality DPC provided it’s not required to finish the main story. But I will never, never, NEVER buy a subscription-based game. I don’t care who…

I started a new playthrough about a month ago (PS3) and I’d forgotten about all the glitches. How many frickin’ years later and I still had to go back a couple saves back due to glitched quests.

I started another playthrough (PS3) about a month ago and FSM, it STILL looks pretty amazing to me. Granted I’m an old, but it’s been a very welcome distraction since lockdown.

I feel for LW1. Sadly, I think DNL has it right: sometimes you’re not sure if you’re ambivalent or not until the third date—you’ve got so much in common! He seems nice! He’s made an effort!—so you think it should work and you really want it to work because you like him, and finally, you try making out and that’s when…

It’s always nice to see Samin Nosrat continue to be awesome. Hopefully she has another show in the works.