That would be odd logic, as 99.9% of the people who campaign for someone are not background checked thus require public response from a candidate. Candidates don’t need to justify, condone, or condemn the actions of every person that is used to turn out voters.

Why would I be mad? They had to clean it up and now Blue Bell is back on the shelves. Win win for me.

People discount how regional that cheering and clapping thing is though. I generally get pissed when people start that bs, largely because it isn’t a play, Abrams isn’t there, and I don’t care what you thought of it.

Ain’t that the truth. Fun fact was I used to not be greyed here until the last Kinja update. And I usually did have fairly nice conversations but I’m a really nuanced person and not a bright, sunshiny “I agree with everything you just said” person. In the old system, that was fine and enough people knew me that the…

The flaw in that is the expectations of sales tends to keep changing the goalposts. So if I have a 5 dollar game but people will only buy it at 1 dollar I could change it to 1 dollar. But because of the sales behavior, my new perceived price is 1 dollar so no one’s buying until it’s free.

Thing is, that tactic didn’t work in the Republican primaries because that’s the base they’ve cultivated (and are just now realizing to their own horror.) It will work for Clinton (look at her Real Clear Politics numbers head-to-head) because the moderates, independents, and obviously Democrats are not the base Trump…

You know most of this is pretty egregious but I always hate the shaver comparisons personally for this reason: it’s one product I know a lot of men seek to find the cheapest acceptable razor possible because how regularly they shave means if they’re careless it turns into a huge expense. Mainly because they shave…

Weirdly enough, that may be a “blame the fans” situation. I know my wife keeps hoping for great things from Sansa (and I don’t think she’s alone), but by this same point of the book she’s sidelined from all action in the Eyrie.

We are. But my personal opinion at this point having watched this play out over 20+ years of noticing it, is that those of us who do challenge it aren’t really noticed. There are two groups who tend to dominate that conversation: bro-ish troglodytes who derive humor from that sort of thing and feminist women who are…

Tangential but relevant: Joss Whedon was discussing with students at Oxford this same idea about the near impossibility of simply creating art and having people discover it after it’s been made. And to some extent he’s lamenting things, but at the same time it does highlight the difference you’re talking about. It’s…

I honestly don’t understand something in this article. The article takes the stance that the majority of players of these games are above the ages of 13-18 to make it’s point about the sexualization of minors. If you want to make that point ok.

While I can appreciate that viewpoint and I’ll just add the “agree to disagree disclaimer”, I don’t think setting it in a galaxy far, far, away makes convenient plot contrivance more believable. To me the difference is I watched Star Wars as a child (amongst people who already knew and told me it was classic so it was…

I think what got lost when ID4 came out, was it’s the same mythmaking present in things that do get celebrated like Star Wars. The tone’s not dissimilar. It’s somber and silly and boomy all at once. People win by an inexplicably stupid flaw of logic. It’s less good in terms of character arcs by a mile though.

It’s questionable how appropriate Lysinstrata is in general. Sort of the point of it’s existence is a farcical satire of Greece’s warlike culture at the time. So in a sense, it’s really only as appropriate as the audience thinks it is. If one were to transport back to the time, it would be highly questionable that…

This has to do with the wording of who said this. This is the position of the central bank which is analogous to the Federal reserve.

I’m not really getting this. By doing things like allowing the victim’s attorney to call a press conference declaring tampering has occurred and then not actually following suit when it’s found out that’s untrue the DA hangs the police, the lab, and the chain of custody out to dry. It doesn’t matter how good his case…

I’m well aware of the term. The problem with it is, it doesn’t really create a visceral reaction against the person doing the shaming. A lot of people think “public shaming” is a useful tool. So saying “I’m being publicly shamed” is about as useful for currying sympathy as you might expect.

I think it gets used because honestly there isn’t a culturally accepted phrase for what happens now. I’m not sure if you’d call it shamed or outraged, but having something that you’ve said brought out by an extremely vested group of people to make sure the story never goes away and drowns out whatever you’re doing is…

That’s just the Jezebel comentariat. I sort of expected it to dogpile in one direction or another but once the course was set... Honestly, I’d be curious if it’s a show that actually managed to pull off male characters I actually identify with. I haven’t watched sitcoms in years because they seem to be built off a…

Not sure how I feel about this. The whole perk “tree” thing tends to be pretty in vogue these days, but part of the fun of Fallout for me was always creating oddball characters and part of that was possible because although there were base requirements, you weren’t necessarily locked in to a tree that you had to keep…