This is where I’m at after 5-6 hours... neither phase feels particularly deep, and the two sets of systems feel like they’re interacting in very proscribed ways. Without a lot of space for player expression or creativity, the management side just feels like so much busy-work in service of an unengaging progression…

My experience, having worked with asshole lawyer bosses of both genders (some of whom actually mentored Sen. Klobuchar), is that many asshole women bosses can be particularly cruel and disrespectful to the women who work for them. As the only guy working on a team with 10+ women, I often had a much more positive…

If your response to someone being an asshole is to say “get the fuck over it,” you might be the asshole!

AOC rules but she’s definitely not the first member of congress to appear on Twitch. The Washington Post does a “gaming with politicians” feature that’s had guests like Matt Gaetz and Cory Booker and offers a chilling vision of things to come. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/323968801?filter=archives&sort=time

I know it’s fashionable to say that everything is a CIA op, but the Ford Foundation is literally a CIA op: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html

I’m not sure where the article is finding such a clear-cut position on copyrighted dance moves, since it doesn’t actually quote any attorneys. The example with Michael Jackson and the moonwalk seems to be speaking to patent law, which has different rules and serves a different function. Similarly, the Diamond Dallas…

It’s good, but it’s no “Ron Paul Pokemon Theme Parody Re-Mix”

Disappointing, but not a surprise when you run the numbers. Assuming supply and demand follow Nintendo’s projections, the Switch is on track to ship around 15-20 million units this year, with the overwhelming majority sold-through to consumers. So that’s about how many Switches would exist in the wild this holiday; it…

I’ve started to think the left needs to be advocating for hugely expanded federal funding for independent, nonprofit community media.

I think it comes down to the fact that the legacy of the KKK looms a lot larger in the U.S. than in Japan, justifying greater sensitivity towards that topic in localization. Particularly when it’s being used for a throwaway gag in an anime titty game and isn’t something that meaningfully impacts the content of said…

Bernie has an 80% approval rating among Democrats. Actually, it is you who is the die-hard.

1) The Clinton campaign was roundly criticized for the low levels of funding it redirected to state-level parties — less than 1% by most accounts. In addition, by framing Trump as “not your typical Republican,” she knee-capped the ability of congressional Democratic candidates to leverage anti-Trump sentiment against…

I’ve never understood why Sanders’ detractors always hit him for his party affiliation; the number of self-identified Democrats is at an all-time low and the number of independents is higher than ever. Seriously, who gives a shit?

This is a fairly recent development though, not some fixed reality of American politics. The key to defeating Trump is building a durable national majority of the working class, not writing off 2/3 of the states and crossing our fingers that Florida goes the right way.

“Do it like Obama” is a really bad prescription, especially given that while Obama gave liberals tinglies from the Oval Office, his party lost influence at every level of government other than the federal executive (in part because all those warm-fuzzies didn’t translate to voter turnout). This is not a desirable…

This is operating on premises about the electorate that are literally and demonstrably false. While Americans are more likely to describe themselves as “conservative,” polling on the individual policy level shows majority support for a wide range of social democratic policies (breaking up the banks, increasing…

Option Four: The Good Ones

Let’s be real though: If there’s any Nintendo game deserving of a Studio Ghibli movie, it’s Earthbound. How perfect would that be?

Yes! Thank you. Return of the Jedi is a bad movie. It’s cool whenever there’s a space battle and you see 50 layers of optically printed pandemonium unfolding on-screen, but that’s like five minutes of the movie total, because all of that stuff was balls-fucking-expensive and took months to make. (Though you failed to…

Destiny is popular.