“Maybe we shouldn’t discriminate against Muslims or invade their countries” = “I adore the most repressive forms of Islamic government”. These strawmen from autumn 2001 sure are bringing back memories!

You make it sound like unskilled positions are just a public service these companies are providing out of the kindness of their hearts, to give young people a helping hand. Some people move on to better things, and others stay in unskilled jobs for a variety of reasons - maybe they’ve got low intelligence, chronic…

Part of why they haven’t installed Pence is plain old political inertia, and the fact that organizations like the GOP are notoriously bad at getting out in front of a problem before it grows out of control. Also, Trump has managed to survive so far despite committing offenses that should have sunk most politicians.…

“in the right hands”, sure. If those hands happen to belong to Kephrii, or one of the six players on that chart. Defending on a payload map gets a whole lot easier when the attack team has a Widow. When she’s not being pounced on and harassed by our Winston or D.Va, she might score random headshots on us here and…

This type of elite-level 3D art brings up another question that’s been bugging me: when it comes to 3D art & design in video games or film, aren’t the various roles hyper-specialized by the time you get to this level? Any time I see a documentary on how big-budget productions are made, the roles are always divided…

The upcoming “Archives” event starting a week from today will have a few types of PvE brawls, with last year’s Uprising (4-player vs Omnic horde) mode and a new “Retribution” brawl that’s yet to be revealed.

Hitscan just means a gun that hits what the player is aiming at instantaneously (McCree, Soldier) as opposed to shooting projectiles with a slight time delay (Genji’s stars, Orisa’s gun) or a beam (Mei’s freeze spray, Symmetra’s gun). It’s how most FPS guns have worked since the old days of Quake and GoldenEye. It’s…

It’s hard to target specific enemies like Tracer and Genji. It’s hard to dive onto enemy backlines and stay alive. And it’s hard to gang up with a buddy and take down the enemy healer.

I think a big part of the 2017 storytelling drought (at least the lack of animated shorts) had to do with the OW team needing to divert more resources into rescuing competitive mode from the hordes of griefers, throwers, and rage trolls.

Sadly, the 5th amendment has been significantly gutted by the recent Salinas v Texas decision. Now, if you simply stop responding to questions and don’t have the lawyer-like savvy to clearly and affirmatively state that you’re invoking your 5th amendment rights, the police can bring your silence up at trial,…

Did we all time-warp back to 1996? Who gives a shit about the “middle”? They don’t decide elections any more. Any politician with half a brain should flat-out ignore the middle. Hillary was about as middle as you can get. Trump didn’t win because a wave of centrist independents decided to hop on the MAGA train. He won…

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You see, “states’ rights” only applies to certain... issues, so to speak.

Eh, maybe they felt it had a better chance competing with Aquaman and Mortal Engines than Ant-Man 2 and Mission: Impossible 6

As someone who drinks for the mood lift, euphoric feelings, mental serenity, increased interest in socializing, and the way the flavors of beer/wine go with food, I’ve tried replacing alcohol with weed and realized that weed has exactly nothing to offer in these departments. Smoking weed resulted in self-doubt,…

So he pleads the 5th or “can’t recall” in response to all of the questions. I don’t see how he’s screwed in that scenario. How would that galvanize the Complicit Congress into turning on Trump?

Elections are no longer decided based on who appeals to the moderate center and wins over the most swing voters. That’s a thing of the past and it’s never coming back. That “huge swath” you speak of may have mattered in the 90s and the early ‘00s but as of November 2016, undecided voters have officially ceased to be a…

I don’t think that lining is as silver as it looks. Young, pissed-off liberals will indeed sprout up, but most of them will be sprouting up in cities that are already deep blue. And a significant number of women across the nation still hold their nose and vote GOP, no matter how repulsive the candidate.

Yeah they’ll have to get the tone just right. If they go with a simple revenge plot and keep Duke the same Jack Burton/Ash-type macho man who’s entertainingly crass but not so awful that he loses the audience’s sympathy, there’s a remote chance it could actually be one of those solid re-watchable movies. John Cena…

What boggles the mind is the fact that they’ll break out the defib paddles for this dessicated corpse of an IP, yet nobody can manage to get a Metroid movie off the ground, which has much wider recognition/appeal and would resonate better with modern day movie audiences. Nah, let’s spend six figures on exploding pole…