As fun as that can be, if you want to be a profitable criminal and not have stupidly high bounties like me, I recommend not needlessly escalating situations. Don’t use your gun to stop a witness or commit a crime if you don’t have to, and it’s best to try to run before you’re properly identified (adding to your…

I feel like a terrible person every time I read “it’s hard to be bad in RDR2.” It’s punishing, yes, because it can be really unclear how to pull crimes off successfully and it’s not worth trying over and over, racking up a bounty, just to learn how to be a good criminal. Yet, that’s just what I’ve done. I have…

Voters and non-voters are responsible for all political outcomes. Full-stop. Democratic participation is literally the only way to reverse those anti-democratic policies, so calling for more and better participation is putting the horse exactly where it belongs. It’s not about blame. It’s about responsibility, and…

One. Hundred. Percent. This is a big part of the very real problem of indifference and cynicism. People think their vote doesn’t count because it doesn’t count enough to them—because everyone else gets to vote, too, and many won’t vote and many others who disagree with them will. We should not expect to be able to…

Moreover, how would family separation deter people bringing kidnapped children, or literally anyone coming to the united states in order to commit crime? This is designed only to deter those immigrants coming to make a better life for their families.

Again, they aren’t mutually exclusive. And any argument you make that puts people to a false choice, between the result you want and a conclusion to which they are predisposed, is a losing argument.

More information and understanding better equips us to tackle rape culture, and while selectively empathizing with white, affluent perpetrators while denying the same to victims is a big fucking problem (hello, new Supreme Court justice), reversing the equation is inadequate. Empathizing with survivors of sexual…

This was not a prepared statement—if he was trying to set up his defense, he would have said nothing at all to police. Honestly, not sure why this statement is the focus here. If we believe that he is unsure of what he did and that he truly does feel guilty now, how much does that change? He still committed an awful…

He dislikes black people, more than he likes himself

Republican voters have always valued fucking over other people more highly than their own self-interest. So I’m never that surprised to see this shit.

The greatest possible disrespect for the office a person can show is by voting an entirely unqualified person into it.

He’s funny though, so there’s that. He’s a good stand up, and the SNL Les mis lobster sketch was pure gold, one of the best things they’ve done in a long time.

I think Seinfeld, and maybe Rock too, conflates not being funny to younger audiences with political correctness.

It’s called a “human interest story”

I’m in it for the single player—as long as that remains uncorrupted, I’m good. And it looks absurdly ambitious. And worth paying full retail, if not more. I’d prefer if the price of games had just gone up to accommodate the greater cost of making them, and we got microtransactions instead. Which I despise. But if they…

A lot of them also boil down to obliviousness that can be prevented with education. In high school and starting college (not that long ago), I did not understand consent nearly as well as everyone should. I made dumb comments. I failed to see a lot of the behavior that is central to the “me too” moment/movement for…

I was also annoyed, because it seemed so out-of-touch with reality. But as the story progresses and the threats intensify, it became a non-issue because the whole game moves further away from reality and the mundane (in a good way), and simply because there were bigger things to worry about.

You missed the second end-credits scene!

Back when we could claim that a two party system prevented the popularization of radical views, I might agree, but now I think some actual options might be good for democracy, ya know?

At least in many states in the U.S., if the other rider had died he could be convicted of murder, without having had the intent to kill. Attempted murder requires the intent to kill, but a jury could reasonably be convinced that that intent existed.