cool analysis! I was looking forward to the z more when I didnt really know what it did (and my imagination ran wild haha). admittedly i still dont know what all it does haha but seems cool. I wouldnt mind a new op-E in a couple years or whatever theyd call it haha. right now my main thing is either playing with cheap…

was probably a mark who was just asking to be taken to the cleaners.

yeah for sure. I heard about the supply problems, and I’m sure the increasing trade wars around the world dont help either. I am just kinda bummed I didnt have enough money to justify a purchase when it was cheaper a couple years ago, and now that I do, they moved the goalposts haha! i was kinda hoping the op-z would…

Sometimes Youtube algorithm is a blessing 

I agree with everything you say except that he’s actively trying to get impeached. I think your analogy to bankruptcy is spot on, but I don’t think he’s trying to get impeached, but you’re right that he would welcome it. And you’re also right that anyone who cares about the long term health of the country would want…

Okay, first off: yes, if it’s definitely one or the other, Stalinism is preferable to Nazism. Second, it’s not one or the other, you dingus.

This is what’s funniest about the “you just think you’re all infallible” take about leftism. Like, we know we’re not infallible because each and every one of us gets in factional arguments with every other one of us about theory and praxis on the regular. We’re terrible about that.

“All strongly held positions are wrong because someone might disagree with them” is a hell of a take.

There is no room for compromise on the fact that American imperialism is killing thousands of people—it’s not like it’s okay if they only kill hundreds of people. There’s no room for compromise on climate change—it’s not like it’s okay to reduce emissions slightly, so global climate disaster is unavoidable in 25 years…

Counterpoint: Moderates are ultimately just conservatives, hiding behind “reason” to justify a stalwart defense of the status quo and a powerful aversion to meaningful change.

Well, I will definitely own my fuckup there — I misread a quick glimpse at the wiki for Winds, the 2012 I saw was in reference to Dance. However...

Benioff is the son of a former Goldman Sachs chairman, so capitalist vulture seems about right.

And so my best advice to you is to not see commentary on this topic as an attack on whiteness, because that is a fundamental misunderstanding of why we discuss issues of representation.

My feelings are similar, but I compare it more closely to GRRM’s own reaction to the success and pressure of his books... he’s clearly spooked about writing an ending that gets it right (which is understandable) and is, consciously or not, obviously doing whatever he can to put off the actual writing part until he’s…

You nailed it here. 

D&D are couple of hacks. That’s glaringly clear, when you see their output past someone else’s hard work.

The more I think about how much D&D have bungled the ending, I feel like I understand why Book 6 is taking 8+ years to write. GRRM is meticulous, he had the series planned out before he started writing Book 1. I imagine he’s written most of The Winds of Winter several times, only to throw it out because things don’t…

I think they may have genuinely pissed Martin off too. I seem to recall an interview when the show began where he said it could run for at least ten seasons and then the last season he writes for is Season 4, when things start drifting away from the books.

He seems to have nothing to do with the show after that, but it…

That’s a baseless assertion. The average failure to show rate is about 12%. A recent study showed that court systems could reduce that rate to as low as 6% if they implemented a simple text message court date reminder system, so lets not use personal annecdotes as basis to demonize people caught up in the American…