Thing is, it is not that Herbert did not write strong female characters. Many of the strongest and most powerful characters in the books are female. Chani just isn’t one of them. She is important to Paul, but not really the reader.

I’ll be honest, the idea of having a device that greatly reduces your daily screen intake is appealing. Like so many Americans, I have a pretty toxic relationship with my phone, and it’s not infrequent that I find myself thinking: “Gee, I really wish I could throw this thing out the window and never have to look at…

You can replace that with USA and capitalism, and your sentence would still be accurate.

I second this.

This is actually a great idea! 

Make every gun store have a book of gunshot victims that customers have to look through before they can purchase a gun, just like they wanted to make women view pictures of aborted fetuses before getting an abortion.

I saw those pics from Allen TX, and they were bad, but I wouldn’t mind if every tiny-dicked gun-humper was made to look at them, and then try to explain WHY anyone needs an assault rifle.

The sanitation effect allows for easier control of narratives. Emmet Till and his mother deciding to hold her son’s funeral open-casket is an example that the gory details matter, because it teaches.

Or TV and movies where someone who gets shot usually gets to carry on heroically for a bit and the only visible evidence is a slowly-growing red stain on their shirt, as opposed to reality where it’s softball-sized chunks of flesh ripped from their bodies at best.

I didn’t have any sympathy for her to begin with, but this kinda just seals the deal.

Yeah, I’m sure the company is still bad. But probably not “force ten year old rape victims to have a baby” bad.

This pretty much, I didn’t really bother with the drama, but I generally raise an eyebrow at nonsense like the company responded with. My benefit of the doubt only extends so far though, and when you use it to do something else bad it tends to pull it towards dubiety.

what im getting from this is that in order to see more behind the scenes footage of game development and a better understanding on how triple a games are produced, we need to generate takes so nightmarishly bad that developers will have no choice but to dunk on them

Oh boy, people are MAD on Steam about the forced graphical updates, a lot of people can’t play the game they purchased anymore because their gpus are now ‘outdated’ because the game completely removed its DX11 support. I have a 1080 so i should still be okay, but geeeeshhh not really the best way to give the fans an…

and to body slam foes as Lady Dimitrescu.

Hopefully THQ Nordic makes a new Titan Quest fairly soon. Diablo still doesn’t have much competition, and it’s a shame. We have tons of soulslike games, Metroidvania’s, etc., but nobody seems to care about Diablo style ARPG’s these days. At least on consoles, or actually decent games. I know PC has a few, and I’m not…

Honestly the fact that they were willing to show the UFO in the trailer, and the fact that the UFO is nearly featureless, has me assuming it won’t be a flying saucer in the traditional sense and may not be alien at all.

EVERYONE always seems to miss the ‘well regulated militia’ part. Whenever regulations come up, the people who masturbate to guns, start to scream and cry that their rights are being taken away. They also miss the meaning of ‘militia’ Defined as - military organization of citizens with limited military training, which…

The fucking irony of her using noted feminist L. Ron Musk’s neckbeard roofing torch is hilarious.

The other thing is that Kendrick’s music always has straddled what it “means on the streets” and how that might be different than how you speak to strangers or white/mainstream people/culture — but here’s the thing ??? Sometimes “the streets” are wrong, like, super duper wrong and, like, yeah. I get it but I don’t get-…