After reading the other comments here, I think I’ll be the odd person out.

I still love D3.

My partner and I have spent almost 2k hours playing d3 on different consoles. We recently lost about 1k hours of progression to a console error (Sonyyyyy!) but then we just kind of shrugged it off and started up again during…

I think that’s absolutely a fascinating discussion to have.
The “branding hellscape” aspect of media aimed at children is a long discussed reality in pop culture.

Gotta get those little ankle biters into rank consumerism somehow!

*deeper sigh*

When someone on the right sighs about “Identity politics” they are literally upset because their identity isn’t the center of the conversation.

The term “identity politics” is one of the most ridiculous examples of RW media successfully using language to paint its opponents with its own problems.

In…

Correct. Liberals looking at this like “aha! This is the end of the GOP” sure do learn slowly how effective fearmongering is at reforming the GOP base when it comes to voting time. 

I can feel the “it’s just a game, bro” from a mile away. 

Same, but PS5.

It looks pretty (most of the time) and the systems are there, but there’s so much jank. It clearly needs more development space. 

Really dig this discussion. James Baldwin’s conception of white fear / white supremacy as a cancer that eats the souls of white folks looms large for me.

To that effect, I also really really dig the language, “we have the symptoms, but we don’t have the disease.”

I totally agree.

Spec Ops was interesting in its goal and disappointing in its methods of selling it’s message (your example come to mind).

You want a truly challenging narrative, maybe Vietnam has the historical distance.

Drop a paratrooper into a province in Vietnam. Observe atrocities. Lose your weapons. Have your…

A very good counterpoint.

Spec Ops was a wholly unique game that played with the concept of player complicity and outcome for player violence.

I’d place Spec Ops in the same class of game as The Stanley Parable or Bioshock for shifting the player’s “fun” away from game mechanics and onto self-awareness of actions and…

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…