You need to go to better bars.

Beer before liquor is way more of a gray area than a simple true/false statement:

I hope he didn’t compound his misery by watching it too.

When you read Moby Dick the second time Ahab and the whale become friends.

It does change the ludic context, I absolutely agree. And I also agree that the ludic context does have definite value in this instance. In a perfect world... well, I should rephrase this thought because in a “perfect world” this wouldn’t be an issue. In a better world there would be a mechanism to mitigate this sort…

The murder is fake, but the racism is real.

The problematic part isn’t Claudette’s mask, the problematic part is the racists.

There are layers of context. The narrative context is relevant, as is the meta narrative context and the ludic context. In a situation like this you could certainly say that it’s contextually appropriate for the narrative - cannibal killer wears victims’ faces as masks - and it’s also contextually appropriate for the…

And you know it’s made by the kind of people that equate bitterness with maturity. All “Our soda tastes like you’re not sure if you got this fluid from the fridge or a printer cartridge, but just imagine yourself wearing a floppy Tuscan sun hat and grimace through it, adults!”

I mean, personally, I’m pretty sure it’s on the “seasonal cold” mutation track, so we’re ALL gonna get it at some point or another. Still, I’m down with the mask. Works for me, and helped me to stave off most seasonal colds. 

The goal posts move yet again. 

I have been vaccinated. Covid isn’t going anywhere. It is endemic. I will not wear a mask forever for a disease that will be little more than an annoyance to how I feel every year. Vaccinated people will most likely get Covid every year going forward, masked or not, and will feel just like they do with the yearly…

Honestly... with vaccines... boosters, and some damn good policies for treating COVID.... Can we just please be done with mask mandates?

Hahahaha

I assume that a conscious decision was made to describe Dustin Diamond’s career as skidding to a halt rather than screeching to a halt. Yet more evidence that the AV Club is classier than me.

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