Yeah. Tolkien’s description of the Southrons is pretty racist, though not necessarily towards any specific ‘dark-skinned’ ethnicity, but more an amalgam of racist tropes attached to ‘not being white’ in European culture. That’s more overt than most of other forms of less overt forms of racism in the Lord of the Rings.

Pretty much. The party of “Cruelty is the point” (Republicans, in case there was any confusion) would like to take this (and every) opportunity to remind everyone that cruelty is *STILL* the point. Active, deliberate cruelty towards the oppressed and the poor is and always has been their driving goal — it’s just not…

There is a difference between being paid *NOT* to release on other platforms and just not bothering to release on other platforms, because the market share and exposure they represent isn’t significant enough to be worth the time.

“This message brought to you by the Trump University’s School of Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud. Trump U: Open Mouth, Insert Foot.”

“Judge Darryl Derbigny was angered, finding that the evidence that could’ve cleared Walter’s name never made it to the jury. Walter spent his whole life in prison for no reason.”

Multiple, fundamentally incompatible things at once, too! They’re achieved M.C. Escher-level illogical here.

That’s how Conservatives breed and raise ‘em -- stupid, arrogant, and ignorant. They don’t know, they don’t care, and they’re easy to anger into stabbing themselves in the back, feet, whatever. Pawns and cannon fodder for their endless culture war.

Not just any monster truck either. A monster truck being driver by her boyfriend. SR2 went to dark places.

I’m kinda bummed. I was hoping for a big heaping of all the wild and wacky diversions and activities present in SR2 and SR3. Sure, there’s overlap, but the stuff that didn’t make it into SR3 was great, and I would loved to have seen an evolution on those activities. By the same token, the activities and diversions…

Unfortunately, the notion that “Republicans ain’t shit” is wrong. They *ARE* shit, but they have the money, power, and influence to be that way and get away with it, too. The fact that Trump was impeached twice, that people followed his lies into an insurrection, that they’re fighting (even attacking) law enforcement…

Anyone else notice that wherever the GOP gets blocked by the majority expressing *THEIR* democratic rights, they immediately set about stripping that power from the majority?

Acting as if America had so fundamentally changed in the last century that this isn’t still more or less the norm in nearly every city and town in America.

And if polio bounces back in a big way, you can *EXCLUSIVELY* thank all the anti-vax assholes who worked tirelessly, night and day, fighting to create generations of future paralyzed, dead, and crippled children and adults.

If the attempts were genuine and sincere, there’s some truth to being ‘better late than never.’ But token, halfhearted (if even that much) gestures? No. In fact, it feels worse than nothing at all. If you don’t really take an issue seriously, how can ‘acknowledging’ that issue in a dismissive or minimal manner not…

They’ll never admit it, but causing harm is half the joy they get from inflicting these draconian, regressive laws on the population, so it’s not accidental or an unavoidable consequence. It’s intentional.

Well, clearly the proper metric to determining a game’s ‘true value’ is to switch to debug mode and check the poly count being pushed onto the screen multiplied by the FPS. All those lame, old 2d games with their psuedo-2d graphics using polygons, pushing a few dozen polygons a time and running at 30fps? Worthless.…

I’m sure it does. All the f***ing time. Because that’s just how a sizable enough proportion of the population think about themselves and how things are ‘supposed to be’ that everyone else just keeps getting screwed over by them at every turn. In the world these people have built, if you’re not willing and happy to…

Once again illustrating that the issues with law enforcement in the US are both institutional and systemic.

It reminds me of a joke:

As long as I can remember, hustle culture has been a way of life. If you’ve got your eyes on a big raise or a corner office, doing the most is what gets you to the top and keeps you there.