While the perfect is the enemy of the good, the mediocre will kill it just as well. Biden is an awful candidate. The 1% already have Trump. Maybe pick a candidate that thinks beyond the upper 10%.

“If you’re an A.V. Club reader, you probably share our general cynicism for promotional nonsense.”

Remarkably stupid comment, thank you.

Too bad about those roads and public school funding though.....

People have been working harder for the past 40 years, as the socio-economic chasm has exploded, mobility has fallen behind more than a dozen countries, and wages compared to most cost of living factors have stagnated. Work harder.

People who make half a million dollars a year are rich, you dope.

how often do you see rapists and sexual harassers on death row? or even convicted?

Congratulations, you have contributed to why people don’t come forward!

One fun context clue to figure out if this question wasn’t appropriate is that the woman who was asked the question is saying that it wasn’t appropriate.

Long after a work outlives its authors, individual interpretation is all we have. Every way of looking at a work is going to be different from what the author intended, if only slightly. Every reality is shaped by your own perception, so why not just go along with it?

Art’s power fundamentally rests in its ability to communicate and express multiple things, some of which are even contradictory, all at the same time. I’m rarely interested in what an author intended to say because it’s entirely possible for them to fail in the act of communicating that message.

That’s.... that’s really the only way to approach analysis in the vast majority of cases. While intent often does matter in some context, creators aren’t god, and can’t really foresee all the possible consequences of their creations. And they often don’t tell us much either. How else would you approach analysis?

Ever…

When writing critically, I’m less concerned with intent than with what a work communicates. Whatever MachineGames intentions were are secondary to what the game actually says in and of itself.

He’s not on the right of the image. That clown’s to the left of you, joker’s to the right. And here I am...

They had no problem with communication when it was selling people on all of the ideas they were going to include. They only started clamming up when those things weren’t delivered. If there’s some legal reason for this, some contractual obligation that they cannot specifically address features not included in the…

Oh, well that’s easy. It is because most social scientists would disagree with that statement, and point out that representation in everything from media to government is a strong way to develop a sense of belonging, and self worth.

Of course the look boxes suck, they’re a system designed to encourage microtransactions. Blizzard would like nothing more than you spend $40 to open a bunch of them. The fact that you can pull duplicates and the rarity of the legendary items should make that abundantly clear. It’s a scam used to prey upon people who…

I had a Mercy game last night that I don’t think I’ll ever manage to beat. Just flying from character to character whilst healing to avoid all the enemies trying to kill the healer first, and in the end doing 12k healing plus 18 revives, which on at least two occasions prevented defeat.

I mean, we’re not talking about creating characters and then gender-swapping them. We’re talking about a preproduction process where the writers might say something like “alright, and then Nate and Sam go into this old man’s house” and then someone says “what if it’s a woman?” and everyone’s like “hey yeah.” Maybe…

Diversity is a good thing. Looking at every character and seeing if they should be female seems complete crazy to me. It’s rare that the gender matters at all in games (I mean storywise, not representation),so how do you have that conversation?