Makes sense - the Cosby Show is 84-92 and much of that discussion would have taken place in and around that time.  Jackson’s presidential bid was 84.

You have to remember that the popularity of the term wasn’t originated in White America. The original term is REALLY old and attributed to a pamphleteer suspected to be of Black descent and aimed at black Americans. The 80's and 90's popularization of the term can mostly be attributed to Jesse Jackson who popularized…

I have no shame in admitting that Okumura basically caused me to quit playing multiple times and just go do something else. The Atlus team would cause no one any anger if they’d just go and modify that fight.

It’s just the balancing issue of it. You could relax the timer OR give the player a heads up that the style of fight is something to account for. Even with that, the time limit seems too aggressive for the rest of the game.

The issue was the game doesn’t really prepare you for that fight. The mechanics it rely on are specific and while playing to the enemies weakness is a thing, it is very possible to go into that fight, having waited until the end of the time limit (as is common), and find yourself lacking something you can’t get…

It’s always nice to know when creators are aware of their own limitations.

I mean what did you expect?

Both far left and far right tend to have this weird sort of authoritarian/anti-authoritarian paradox that’s always going. Usually they’re perfectly fine with some sort of weird invasion of privacy like your health or what you say out loud but by god if the police can actually do their job more effectively, no thank…

I think most people are on the sane side of this.

To your point, figuring out ethical consumption is such a minefield because where do you draw your own line on “when is it justifiable ignorance” and when is it just “following your preference and using an excuse.” And does that mean highly intelligent people have to live as otherworldly monks because they should…

I mean they’re both rich at this point so why not? Most people’s “mistakes” are “I hooked up with a deadbeat with no future.” The worst thing either of things will get out of this? That one or the other’s just a jerk.

A lot of running jokes in the audio community stopped working once the internet happened.  Because everyone was suddenly in on it, you were intruding on the movie rather than simply throwing in a sound that those in the trades knew about it.

Given the abundant evidence that game designers really can’t create games at this budget for “any play style” as the open world aspect or certain quests just seem to dictate specific things, going with the on-the-fly respec is probably a fair way to go.

I think this is just one of those things like the Sony/Xbox stuff, where people have just stopped asking the really basic questions. Questions like - what constitutes transformative works, the rights of Youtubers in general, and Nintendo’s actual legal basis for its claims.

The recourse for that is either more legislation or forcing the FTC to define what it actually finds as anticompetitive and then holding them to thorough enforcement.

Umm no. Exclusivity has existed since the 8 bit era.

This is the accurate take.

I mean Fey is also one of the first showrunners/lead writers I’ve seen in SNL history where her casts kept showing up and not leaving.

It may also have a bit to do with what happened to journalism over time. Granted, coverage has always gone to the major players first and foremost. But there was a period there when it felt like all the coverage moved to them (instead of most) whether that was by design or because those companies were pushing for that.

I’m a strange person in that I am not in support of the merger but Sony’s/FTC’s arguments here are bad and shouldn’t stand.  Sony should also be looked at for their behavior in the Japan market by using exclusivity to prevent newcomers.