While I am all for video games as art, and I think parsing conflict through fiction is important, making a “shooter” to show “war is hell” is suspect as hell.

I’d love for “Just Following Orders” to be a dead defense post-Nuremburg.

But this is America. The land of Abu Ghraib where “Most soldiers only received minor sentences. Three other soldiers were either cleared of charges or were not charged. No one was convicted for the murders of the detainees.”

The US “Justice”…

Hey, not really the time or the place, my dude.

I’m also from the North (White Dude Here).

We brought you The Nadir of American Race Relations, A whole crop of KKK members, The concept of Eugenics, a host of Sundown Towns, and the reality of Northern Racism as it’s own separate entity entirely to Southern Racism…

I, for one, thought that Shepherd’s meteoric rise to political power through yellow journalism, using mass communication and cheap populism was a bit too real considering the last four years.

In all seriousness, Citizen Kane as a parallel to Trump is Spooky AF.

Total agreement, and well said. 

Define, “rip them off.”

Source - All the developers trying to determine how much of this concept they can use without a copyright suit

“I’ve handled these cases for other people before. You can do claims to have them take it down, but full disclosure: Every single woman that I’ve assisted to do that, it backfires on them. They will send their communities after you.’ I will never forget this: He said, word for word, ‘They will make every day of your…

Not everyone in this scenario has the ability to “choose” to be at risk.

Most folks working in food service need the work and don’t have a ton of other options for income.

Source, that was me like, 8 yrs ago. 

Any individual who is targeted in all of this must be sweating bullets.

Luckily, he already had the correct garb.

Wish him nothing but luck and success. Fuck hedge funds.

Seconded. Aikido is a wonderful MA to study if your goal isn’t striking.
I know a few school administrators who study and swear by it for breaking up fights with minimum harm.

Ah, but eating out while literally endangering the lives of the lower class is peak Bourgeoisie.

Sip the wine and scowl as your personal wage slave literally dies while you tip lower than historically average.

I used to be jokingly anti-capitalist, but Covid has radicalized(wrong word for realizing the truth) the shit…

I think part of the “unevenness” claim that gets lobbied at Lovecraft Country stems from the serialized nature of the show being a surprise for the audience (to a degree).

The book is serialized, too, and I think too many people watched the first episode (absolute banger of a Pilot) and then assumed the rest would…

Stoked for this, Lovecraft Country had some big Laura Croft energy when they were going full Goonies.

Definitely. It will also be interesting to see how the MCU and DC film universes adapt or don’t.

Nods to 9/11 abound in super hero narratives from the US post 2001, with varying degrees of success.

The events of Avengers with the Chitaurii are clearly a 9/11 analogue (though post-9/11 in-universe), so it will be…

“Affluenza”

I’ve been wrestling with this as a Sci-Fi writer, personally.

So much of speculative or even non-speculative fiction has to grapple with pre-covid representations of the world or post-covid representations of the world.

All the jokes about “the before times” are losing their humor as they become just that, “Pre-Covid.”…

You could also just look at the sheer number of text-based post bots on platforms like Twitter or Reddit. 

For all those people who never believed he was a psychopath. As the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES he ordered his steaks well done.

I am gonna buy some fancy ass pants.

It’s almost as if the Stock Market was never designed to directly interface or be accessible to the masses, and that very access will undermine it’s existence because it wasn’t made for the masses, but for the few.

Weird.