There’s also a mentality in gaming media that sequels have to do new things, that it isn’t enough to just provide a quality gaming experience that mechanically functions the same or similarly to previous entries.

If he was still alive I bet he’d try to trademark the term.

Cottagecore is a thing with some millennials and gen Zers where they cosplay an idealized English/European pastoral lifestyle or aesthetic as a response to urban hustle culture or whatever else is driving them to a nostalgia for a simple life they very likely never experienced. As for era, it’s probably synonymous…

Late reply.

Racism can be local but consumption of products can be global. So, it’s a French game released in the U.S., which has a sizable Chinese immigrant population with its own complicated history and ongoing interactions with the country’s white majority. Like other forms of consumption, the product is looked at through the…

What you’re missing is that the discussion of racism and appropriation is all local. Identity-politics-progressives recognize the majority white American culture as a default where hyphenated (minority) Americans are othered (though every once in a while one of those hyphens gets integrated into the default), and that…

The thing about these extreme poverty charts that get trotted out for the sake of positivity is that if you look at a real income growth chart over the last few decades and start going up the percentile of income distribution once you get around to the 65th percentile, you actually start seeing a dip where it goes…

Sorry, isn’t a cult hit a property that fails to gain mainstream attention but is popularized by a narrow group of dedicated fans?

Yeah, that cult show from the 90s that peaked at 27 million in 1997 and managed 16 million when its revival premiered in 2016.

I think you’re putting entirely too much blame on Ukraine for inflation. The sanctions and conflict have affected the price of oil, but gas prices are also affected by increased demand following the pandemic shutdown and factors like refinery capacity, which itself is at an 8 year low in the U.S.. To add some context,…

1B is the floor, it won’t be Musk dragging things out, it’ll be the Twitter board.

The rest is him railing against incorporation and substantive due process.

I’m not that surprised, law school isn’t really conducive to a structuralist attitude based on power dynamics and political ideology, that attitude will just churn out depressed, cynical, likely alcoholic former lawyers, better to embrace the casuistry and get that good grade in Con Law.

Packing the court would be a nuclear option, one that, if the conservative slide on precedent continues, could gain in popularity. Barrett and Kavanaugh won’t be impeached, impeachment requires 67 senators to convict and Democrats can’t even get 60 to vote one way or the other. The only way to get rid of them is if…

Yes, you’re missing something. The SCOTUS decision in Dobbs is that the Court in Roe was wrong to read a right to privacy in the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment because this right to privacy, or anything to do with sex for that matter, wasn’t a consideration when the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, and,…

And the Pete Buttigiegs of the world.

Damage to Trump, so they can embrace DeSantis 2024.

10% of Obama 2008 and 2012 voters voted Trump too. In Sanders’ case there’s the argument that he appealed to socially conservative, pro-union, pro-populist policy voters. There’s also the argument that the majority of those people didn’t vote Democrat in the previous elections, so it’s not like they were guaranteed…

I’m not advocating for it, I’m simply pointing out what OP is talking about, and why Republicans would probably welcome it.

I think OP is arguing more about testing the Court’s enforcement powers, of which it has none, and seeing if the executive would send in the 101st or federalize the national guard to enforce a New York gun nut’s ability to get a CCP, though Republicans would probably welcome further eroding institutional trust and…