That whole thing had precisely nothing to do with intellect.

“That’s stupid.” -Geroge R.R. Martin, 1998; A Clash of Kings

Are we ruling out the possibility that he’s secretly sworn to the Dallas Cowboys, though?

But don’t you know? Art is meaningless and has no impact on real life.

Which is why authoritarian regimes have never once cracked down on art or artists or free expression, nope!

Ah, gaze upon the North American Neckbeard. You can tell this pile of excrement for the South American Neckbeard by the pasty white skin, stink of Axe body spray and the usual air of privilege.

You do understand that fiction has an important role in helping people empathize with and understand unfamiliar people and social settings, right?

Like, this game is not going to save any sex workers. But it will do something useful if it can help a few gamers see them as a little more fully human and complex.

Sympathy for sex workers, middle-aged female protagonist (the white half of an interracial relationship, no less), no gratuitous T&A...

Gamergate is going to fucking HATE this.

See, this is what happens when feminists start pouring over games for any sign of “unacceptable subject matter” - developers take those criticisms on board and improve their representation of those subjects, leading to better, more intersting and engaging gaming experiences. Thanks Anita. No, seriously, thank you.…

I know you’re joking, but the fact that people like this really exist in the world makes me want to take up waterboarding as a hobby.

I don’t know what you were trying to say but Gary Numan so +1. Good day, sir!

I call bullshit on digital resales being different than physical resale.

You know that law system has problems when you have practice it to understand it. Maintanance of current law system requires so many lawyers it is insane

Yeah, because geography wasn’t a “thing” until the mid-2000s, amiright?

Yeah fuck taxes! Who needs roads or schools or a military or safety inspectors or a police force or firefighters? Definitely not me or you. Fuck them all I say, FUCK THEM ALL!

It’s not the “They haven’t earned it/they don’t work hard enough for it” that kills me. It’s the “Why should I have to pay for medical care for person X?”

Most other countries seem to have figured out something that America just can’t: if third-party liability insurance is legally mandatory, instead of letting assholes find ways around it and drive uninsured, they just made third-party liability insurance a public, tax-funded thing.

I did read something a while back talking about how in Japan they generally don’t prosecute unless they’re 99% sure they’ll win, because losing cases would cause them (the DA office I guess) to lose face. So they have a very high rate of successful criminal prosecutions, but most crimes don’t ever go to trial.

To branch the topic out a bit more, I always find myself confused by the number of people who are never satisfied with the endings of stories unless they are finite.

From zero to Godwin’s Law in record time.