It doesn’t have to be the regular population though. That’s the referendum path. But there’s also a state legislature path that only requires 75% of state legislatures to approve it. And if republicans controlled that many, which is maybe not the most likely scenario, but definitely within reach, they could…

I wouldn’t say never. 15 years ago I would have said Roe would never be overturned, but here we are. While I do think their raw xenophobia would keep them from tossing out the natural born citizen provision, on pure numbers, they could definitely get the control they would need, because it doesn’t have to be states…

I’m well aware of the actual provisions, but right now Republicans have a trifecta in exactly half of state legislatures and control either the senate or legislature in another 13, and between the gerrymandering they by and large seem to have pulled off with this most recent census plus the current state of the…

Yeah, I’m still haunted by the first time Oprah gave cars away to her audience and didn’t stop to consider, you know, the taxes that they’d have to pay, and how she ultimately financially harmed most of the people there that day. Very few “free” things, especially large or luxury goods, are actually free, turns out 😕

I know what he’s CAPABLE of spending. I just wanna know what he was WILLING to spend for one go. Morbid curiosity and all that. What does a guy with his wealth consider to be a reasonable price for sex? Will knowing the answer make my life better? Oh GOD no. But not knowing means I’ll always wonder in the back of my…

Also, horses are expensive, not just to buy, but to house and feed and care for. Was he going to pay for that, too? Like, exactly how much money was he willing to put up for what would have in any case been unbearable sex not worth it at any price? I just want to know what his top offer was.

Gotta deal with that pesky part in the constitution where presidents have to be natural born citizens, which shouldn’t be a problem for him once republicans take control of the house and senate during the midterms and then, should they hold on to the majority in ‘24 and a republican president wins, they ABSOLUTELY…

I am shocked

I’m super aware of the appalling history of white/wealthy/powerful artists stealing from marginalized ones, and I absolutely agree it’s necessary to point out every time that happens. I can walk you through my annoyingly long thought process, but I just genuinely don’t think that in the SPECIFIC instance if that game…

I honestly agree. I just wanted to see what John’s take on that other issue of copying art was, and if there was something I was missing with regard to the two situations, other than the obvious difference in power disparity between mega-corporation Disney possibly copying a tiny independent developer vs a tiny…

Oh, I fully agree that if they did copy his work, they should pay him, because like you said, they can, and even saying that it doesn’t look to me like they copied makes me feel gross, like I’m somehow defending Disney when I’m actually just saying that if someone asked me, without seeing the movie or footage of the…

I mean, it’s not, but still. Like, Seaman exists for the Dreamcast, but I still to this day think it’s weird. Wonderful, but weird. I really love when developers do off the wall stuff like this, honestly. This idea in particular just REALLY screamed April Fools Day joke to me for some reason.

Yeah, I know, it still seems like whiplash takes for a single site though.

Yeah, I don’t play Dead by Daylight due to a general aversion to online multiplayer, but everything I’ve read makes the developer sound pretty decent

Wait, so does “art is meant to be copied” apply to that article yesterday about the “black dev” who said it was likely that Doctor Strange 2 copied his game for a fight sequence? Because that was my take on that whole thing too, that whether or not it was copied (I’m of the opinion it wasn’t, but I could be wrong),…

How did that article not end in an /s??? Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s hilarious and am down to church it out, but like, how is this a real thing that’s really happening???

It’s ironic because while I never played online much in any game, I did play a lot Destiny and Destiny 2 until a few years ago. I don’t have any friends who play video games regularly, so I had to find randoms if I wanted to do the raids, and I DID want to do them, but the only groups I ever found that would let a…

Unfortunately, I’m really not seeing anything that could amount to copying. As a bunch of people have pointed out, including the dev, fighting with musical notes is very old visual technique, and since musical notation is extremely limited and hasn’t changed in hundreds of years, there are only so many ways to…

Oh shit, I never thought of it like that! You’re right, the penalty for failure to comply with what is often a half dozen or more cops screaming at you at the same time IS extrajudicial execution by way of several minutes of suffocation and refusal to render medical aid once you’re unconscious! Boy, I sure was silly!…

White Supremacist Killer: writes 180 pages of white supremacist reasons why he white supremacist killed a bunch of non-white supremacist black people, specifically citing white supremacist talking points regularly featured on white supremacist Fox News

Fox News: prolly the video games, right?