The’re cops, not Ninjas.

Not sure that’s the case. A majority of his fame came in a very specific surge several years ago. It’s the same surge that guys like Markiplier experienced later to a lesser extent.

I’d say the same thing, but Kotaku keeps covering him. It’s like saying I don’t care about Marvel movies. Whether or not I care, people are still going to post articles so people are going to read about it and talk about it.

Honestly, as a former student it didn’t really bug me whether or not direct feedback was needed to grade faculty. My opinion was in general tying too much to student evals led to too much coddling. But at the same time, I think there’s a certain level of complaints needing to be taken seriously.

‘Eh. Largely this kind of paranoid/half-true stuff bores me after a while.

Ok... but when I said preferences in the context of what I was writing, that wasn’t what I was talking about.

I do think for a lot of guys (especially of the nerdy/shlubby set) that’s part of the double edged sword of success late. They don’t acclimate to normal dating because until they are extremely successful, they don’t start seeing that attraction.

I think the problem comes in (especially if you’re going to acknowledge the outcasts in school thing) is that people once they hit the age of 30 and to even more an extreme at 40 are products of so much experience that may not lend itself easy fixes. The guys kvetching about women with baggage in their 30's or 40's…

Feel free to find it troubling. People claiming things against the Clintons is old (and at a certain point I can’t pretend there isn’t political motivation or the suddenly concerned should have been talking about this in 2000 which is a year after the last date accusations even were really talked about.)

100% Vetting? No. There are too many stops and too many localities that different people get used. Sure, they try to have an idea and they do their best to prevent it from backfiring, but no most campaigns do no expect a politician speaking on behalf of their candidate to require the candidate subsequently address any…

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…