I think to your point, the fact that’s it’s been fashionable to bash Metallica’s new stuff long enough for it to have had kids really messes with things. It’s sort of meant that musical discussion has always been married to the idea of “the later stuff” is bad, it just depends on you when that “later stuff” was. …

Gorilla has apparently seen Dunkey’s review it seems.

And their replacement:

I think once someone has killed all their heroes, it’s probably just best to keep in mind Hollywood is inherently a huge social power construct.

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.

I think the anti-climactic element of it is something that people should temper a little bit because that is ultimately driven by fans, not the plot. One of the reasons “subverting expectations for the purpose of subverting expectations” created such putrid storytelling was that period as creators ventured onto the…

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.

This is what I think people in peacetime don’t understand or have forgotten. The concept of this sort of weird “you don’t get x rank by age” only works in peace time. In times or around places where war is a factor, the ranks outside of the people who never set foot near a battlefield are building rank based on who…

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…

At that level, they do care. That doesn’t mean they won’t do what you say in some cases but if they went so crazy that it became obvious something had to be done, it’s a given a Democratic administration would pack the courts back depending on how bad it got.

Time is a funny thing.

I mean the difference is, they did it.

Bingo. The problem is that Montana lacks the jurisdiction to ban interstate communication/business.