I think what it comes down to is that most people have realized that what actually stands in the way of any kind of reform is an overly-complicated, corrupt, self-perpetuating bureaucracy, and it’s going to take a cataclysmic level event to tear down that edifice. The apocalypse is seen as necessary because there’s no…

Am I meme-ing this right?

I mean, why shouldn’t someone be able to make money off of a color? It’s the only way people will make new colors! come on. People need money as an incentive to invent new colors. It’s obvious.

Because that’s an artificial problem created by precisely the people he’s railing against? There would absolutely not be a housing crisis if not for greedy landlords snapping off everything they can get their hands on at any price they can get their hands on it, in a purposeful bid to drive up rental prices.

Anecdotally…

Because there are enough vacant residential properties in the US that every single homeless individual could be given 29 currently unoccupied residential properties to live in. If you take into account homeless family groups or friends who would live together, that number increases further.

the mark of a writer who has to live in NYC for their job is, of course, mentioning that they’re in Australia

The article literally says Luke is in Australia and a good number of their staff work remotely lmao, what on earth is this tone?

NYC, famously the only town in America with landlords.

Think you got distracted by the racial profiling comment, because that is not what the article was saying? It was making a comparison to the immediately preceding sentence:

Saw someone on Twitter recently, not even talking about Call of Duty but just military action stories/games/movies in general, and how they’ve really suffered from a lack of imagination regarding antagonists since the early 90's.

Yeah, I always love watching the people bend over backwards to explain how CoD “isn’t inherently political”. That every second of the game somehow ISN’T Pro-American Right Wing propaganda.

There’s a part of the game where you climb a ladder and slide down the Trump wall with ease, “de-escalate” by aiming assault rifles at Texans living in mobile homes, and then get arrested by police officers because you’re Mexican, only for the police officers to be immediately killed by middle eastern terrorists in…

Dont’ watch Nobita, though, and be careful about recommending him. I’m on the side of “recognising that Japan is a deeply patriarchal and sexist country does not downplay how Western countries certainly aren’t perfect either”, but Nobita is outspokenly racist and collaborates with many Western right-wingers.

I see we have another story where I hate everyone involved.

I’m worth a couple hundred bucks, can I come to the restaurant and yell at the servers, then apologize for like... a free coke and some mashed potatoes?

Watching the videos again, and the one with the commentary, I’m wondering if the move towards a faster release cycle is starting to dull some of the creativity. Counting up to the release of this one it’ll mean that in the last five years (2019-2023 inclusive) we’ve had four full games.

What I got from the film segment is that “Return” is going to be a pretty direct film adaptation of SH2, hence the remaking of that game to coincide. This is an unpopular opinion in the fandom but I actually like the first SH film, as different as it was from the first game. I know a lot of fans couldn’t get past the…

Man, the “My rep speaks for itself...” line is really bad if you ask me. Its highly arrogant and “hey man im cool dont get mad im cashing these checks!”.

Ooooh this rubs me the wrong way. Jennifer Hale getting paid a shitload while saying everyone should get paid well after taking over a role because she’s Jennifer Hale.

I think its safe to say that the pay for the most important character in a game with an 8-9 figure budget should probably be more than a single entry-level QA tester will make working on the game for 2-3 months.