I used to hate mayo, and would act all uppity about it because it seemed so basic—except when it was used in moderation as a critical ingredient. But eventually I began to see its value as a condiment. Granted, a lot of mayo is fucking disgusting, and in my experience it is used in excess more than in appropriate…

Agreed. She became very boring very quickly.

I do, because they vote.

My girlfriend’s parents routinely thank me for “putting up” with their daughter. Not for anything in particular my girlfriend does; they’re very nice people but they just like to say this fucked up thing. I always try to push back a little so hopefully they’ll cut it out. 

And I screamed into the void: “What about a single player update, adding a Hard difficulty setting?”

It’s really disappointing. Bioware was one of my favorite developers, having made KOTOR and Mass Effect. Like Bethesda with Fallout, they’re poorly trend-following at the expense of the kind of narrative-driven gaming that made them stand out. I would not be surprised if they turned Anthem around, considering how much…

One of my favorite hot sauces uses extract, and I like it precisely because it’s got way more heat than flavor.

First Reformed was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. 

It might be because those people didn’t see Bohemian Rhapsody or Green Book, and they’re judging it relative to past winners and by whatever criteria one normally judges a movie on.

It doesn’t look like you have to be legally classified as disabled, but this is a legal definition of disability. I wonder how much of the requirements carry over from other contexts; am I not disabled if the substantial impairment my disability causes is mitigated by medication?

Mine too. Still does. But I choose to find the fun in it, and shout “GOLD! GOLD! NUGGETS AS BIG AS YOUR FISTS HE HE HEE!”

What about an update to the story mode? This game seriously needs a hard difficulty setting. Arthur’s bullet-spongeyness sucks all the tension out of every big mission in the game. I died early in the game and then occasionally when attacked by a bear, or surrounded by bounty hunters, but that was it. Even with free…

Feel that this comment from Michelle Rodriguez is beyond stupid, but that there was no reason to attack Liam Neeson to begin with. Feel that it was good that someone could admit to sharing the Birth-of-a-nation-style racist revenge fantasy that many men have, and admit that he was ashamed. Feel exhausted that that…

Yeah, seriously. This is how the Goetzs, Zimmermans, Roofs, Trumps, and Klansmen of the world think. They find their self-worth in Birth of a Nation style racist fantasies of violent revenge. It hardly, if ever, reflects a legitimate concern for the harms of sexual assault; black stranger rape of a white woman is the…

Um. He was out looking for an excuse to kill a different black person, any black man that gave him the opportunity by “hav[ing] a go at [him].” Seems like race is a pretty big part of it. If his issue was with assault perpetrators, he could have sought out assault perpetrators—he could have put himself in a position…

A couple months ago, my mom confronted a guy who cornered an arab parking attendant and was screaming some MAGA shit at him. She started screaming at him; he froze then walked off.

I don’t second Douglas’s tone deaf “real tragedy” or “real monsters” language, but insofar as the above-stated concerns are about causation, they are irrelevant to and more important than whether Jackson was a “scumbag” or whether he can be “excused.” Neither judgment is particularly helpful to trying to understand…

Not wanting to be sexually harassed or assaulted is not “political correctness.” Wanting sexual predators out of positions of power they abuse is not “political correctness.”

A six year old who’s curious to try different things? Sounds like you got a real winner there. 

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