“This seems like a scheme to not pay the talent behind these programs what they are owed in residuals.”

On the Distraction podcast (from Defector) with Adam Conover as guest where he goes into it. Michael Schur was on a few weeks before, but the sentiment is the same. The people in charge now, the investor class, don’t give a shit about the product. They care about maximizing revenues and profits. These aren’t movie/TV…

And I never suggested it was the cops shooting an unarmed black man, did I? I’m talking about them trying shift blame for shooting the kidnapping victim, not the kidnapper.

Really goes to show you the amount of hate Black folks get, and just how much we have to turn the other cheek WITH GRACE in the face of such hate. 

I like how you just slide right on over and past literally one of the most important and biggest sticking points in this whole discussion, which is the rights of the artists on whose backs this derivative, hacky garbage is being spit out.

There is no “conversation”. You don’t use existing artworks from living artists to train these things on without the artists' express permission. Full stop.

short-sighted, and reeks of people that refuse to adapt to the times

Okay, but the difference is nobody at those stores was expected to be keeping an eye on you and the place your parents actually left you at was an arcade, a place that’s explicitly designed for people to hang out at for more than the duration of a shopping trip.

This is definitely a problem in retail, but I think bookstores and video game stores (also toy stores, but they’re increasingly rare) come in for the worst of it. This has been going on at GameStop for well over twenty years; it was a problem when I worked there under EB Games! Reading over some of the suggestions, I…

Oh, just one more thing. About those beads: you said they were your wife’s. Well, the strange part is I distinctly remember her saying she doesn’t like butt stuff. I figured maybe she was just embarrassed to admit it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So we checked her phone, and do you know what we found? No…

“I want to remind us all of the benefits of in-person collaboration.”

Should just have fired the ones that refused the vaccine. But guess they need their pervs back to harass women.

Literally every covid precaution reduction is based on the idea that with a significant portion of the population vaccinated, it becomes safe enough that for the most part, the only people in serious danger are those who can’t be vaccinated (and rely on high vaccination of others to protect them) and those who refuse…

Glad to see we let the anti-vaxxers win. 

Not to be grim, but we should collectively be prepared to lose some greats after this ceremony. This non-policy policy is a mess. The hubris of easing restrictions NOW, just because we are sad/stressed/tired of covid is astounding.

Ah, Freemen on the Land. These fuckers are annoying. Up here in Alberta, you run into them as soon as you leave a city centre. My friend is a County Patrol Officer. He’s a traffic cop for rural roads, investigates property crimes in the county, and settles/intervenes in property disputes and complaints between…

This is obviously because a Kotaku article mentioned that Nintendo games can be emulated

Actually it makes it just sound “pretty good” instead of the superlative spectacle people have been making it out to be.

Every time one of the these Republican fucks starts on about the rAdIcaL leFtIsTS I just wanna smack the shit out of them. Like, fuck you man.