“...who sent one dude a photo of his teenage daughter covered in semen...”

I assumed that from the context, but I was also like “yikes that’s an unfortunate typo”...

Yes, but those people still have careers and nobody is suggesting they shouldn’t. Or at least if they lost their careers it wasn’t because of Comedy Central Roast jokes.

What the actual fuck are you talking about? “SJWs”, if I have to hold my nose and pretend such a thing exists, have made the case that doing shitty things to disenfranchised and vulnerable people and groups isn’t ok, even if you did it 10 years ago and “all the boys were doing it”. Making distasteful tweets that are…

No. No it is not like that. Can you really not make a moral distinction between assaulting women and telling offensive jokes?

Yeah, I agree Jones was dealt a shitty hand. If you’re not going to plan to train your star of a martial arts focused series in martial arts, you should probably cast someone with martial arts experience.

I agree developers have a moral duty to not create games to not exploit vulnerable people. However, my point is that the kinds of transactions you describe *also* prey on people, even if you can come up with reasons why it “shouldn’t”. If addictions were rational, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Oh fuck yes. What may seem like an obviously inauthentic patronizing personality to some can seem like a galvanizing leader to others. It just depends what kind of figure they want to project that on.

I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised, but on the other hand, I don’t really care. I’m sure lots of people were juicing who *didn’t* have one of the best 10-15 SS seasons of all time...

That sounds good, but exactly the kind of micro transactions you describe, even purely aesthetic ones (new hat/clothes/hair with 0 game play effect) have been shown to be just as effective at leeching money out of people who can’t afford it.

I mean, I guess? But anecdotally the places I’ve seen it happen are places where non-customers, often homeless, used the restrooms a lot. The Haight Street Macdonalds stands out particularly (at least as of 5-10 years ago).

Rich Aurelia picked a crappy year to have one of the best seasons by a SS in history (smack in the middle of peak A-Rod).

1. Thanks for making me think of F-Rod again you dick.

Fwiw, while I agree with you in humanitarian terms, I definitely *have* seen restaurant bathrooms that were open the public rendered basically unusable in San Francisco. That of course is not to say that the W letting a few people in to piss is going to turn it into a sanitation crisis, but people’s concerns aren’t…

I’m pretty sure it’s both. I’m not saying this has to be tied around his neck for the rest of his life (I’m sure many of us said some pretty awful shit of one -ism or another when we were 17 and were just fortunate that Twitter wasn’t around/we didn’t use it), but “not racism at all” is pretty specious.

Haven’t really that one, but read other Chabon books and enjoyed, so I should probably get to it.

I didn’t really have a problem with the first couple of books, but later seasons of the show are *way* better than later books, which always make me think of Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys where he has a giant manuscript that he doesn’t know how to finish.

Counterpoint: I saw the movie first and absolutely hated it (and I don’t hate a lot of movies). I later read the book and enjoyed it just fine.

“lso, once you really start examining Firefly as a metaphor for the Civil War with all that inconvenient slavery stuff scrubbed away so the south can be the good guys it isn’t as much fun as it once was.”

Well, yes. You act like that’s unreasonable. There exist toxic political opinions. Whether Balwin’s is one to you is up to you, but the idea that someone couldn’t hold political views so repellant that you find them to be personal failings is not invalid.