there've already been nonwhite popes though… 
gelasius was berber, some afro-centric revisionists think he was black (ethiopian), but he was at least explicitly from a north african ethnic group

@avclub-ab7d240c84d7265faec0b698a29c6ca7:disqus - realism arguments don't apply to infinite, where even with the weapon limit, you can still have a rocket launcher, a chaingun from one of the washington robots, and a skyhook you can hang on to for miles and jump up 15 feet in the air to connect to without getting…

not as good as the podcast ep. bob+david were on

oh yea, i'm not talking about they were virtuous and not hypocrites or anything, but it was at least private. you had to make a show of being virtuous in public, and in infinite it's just like, coming out of vending machines and available from street vendors at the big fair. i dunno, maybe i have no idea what the time…

or those ones where it's like, you're caught watching your sister and she's like, i saw you getting out of the shower, and what a tiny cock you have, no wonder you're a desperate pervert trying to watch your sister change when she doesn't know you're there

when your a musician your only children should be the music

wow, i hadn't even thought about the vigours like that… yea, it makes sense an ayn rand inspired freedom-is-everything culture would have widespread personal empowerment modifications (bioshock's rapture), but a protestant-esque american religious city in the era where fundamentalist revivals were big (and prohibition…

i just want one more game in my life that will do what system shock 2 did to me, on hardcore in the dark at 3AM… i would say they should aim for that if i didn't already know that sort of achievement is impossible (until the industry collapses and has to reform)

that's not true at all… halliburton's stock price doesn't explain, say, the shift in focus to fighting terrorism and new tactics to track down nonstate actors, or the shift to land-sea doctrine and talking to southeast asian companies and governments to try to counterbalance the growing power of china in the south…

contards are killing gaming

for every cool blimp/skyline sequence there were two where one of the george washington robots was chasing around a corridor and you had to line of sight him and you were running out of ammo and it was the most stop-in-your-tracks tedious attrition fight

eh, even hollywood sci-fi boilerplate has done the story elements better/more subtly… star trek ds9/battlestar did religion alot better than infinite (which is like a 17 year old reading dawkins for the first time) and district 9 was like a cornell west book in terms of addressing racial tension compared to the "OMG…

there were so few powers for just one person that already it wasn't anything near what you'd need for an MMO (most of the vigors did the same thing, direct damage nuke or a bomb) and restricting them to 1-2 per class would not make a fun game at all. no MMO that goes for that much homogenization has ever been very good

ok the whole idea of how a floating city would exist in real life is ridiculous, but if you can grant me that, i was disappointed at how much it just felt like a theme park. it was like, see this! go here! rather than anything where actual human beings would conduct commerce and live in. even compared to rapture it…

infinite was like, pretty, and interesting story, but the actual game was wack, there were like, 5 guns and 5 types of bad guy? over and over again until it was boring as shit. and it didn't feel well put together, like, at one point its all like [psuh f to comfort] the girl after she does a murder but i left her…

The philosophy expressed on the show, insofar as it consistent in some way, doesn't line up neatly with libertarian nutjobism, that's the point

they never did? the gold standard has only been mocked, ayn rand was used as the thing that killed barbrady's love of reading in s2, ron paul was only in one episode in the background of the GOP debate and not given the spotlight or anything… it doesn't celebrate any of the hallmarks of nutjob libertarians

i heard rebecca blacks friday on the radio before so blandly competent is too high a bar…

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