“punching down” applies when you focus only on marginalized targets that can’t fight back. What GTA does is far different, they come out swinging like a drunk in a bar brawl, they’re punching up at the government more than they’re punching down, but they’re throwing punches every which way. I don’t know how you can…

Decent article, and it might help, but honestly, in my experience kids tend to look for overly permissive, careless and/or absentee parents first and foremost, so if you care enough to set up a hangout, you probably care too much for their tastes.

eh, in this day and age, I’d rather have them close, and be able to keep an eye on the kinds of kids that they’re hanging out with in case some gentle nudging towards a healthier friend group are needed.

same here! that or the avacado ranch. Taco bell gets the ratio of gooey/crunchy really right, and they get a lot of other things right, but at the end of the day their target market is white-bread middle-to-lower-middle America, which means they go light on the spice. Sure you can slather it in fire sauce, or add some…

gotta say not a fan of them being “more culturally sensitive” because game studios really don’t have a great track record when it comes to attempting to do that, plus that’s not why fans play GTA, myself included. It’s supposed to be offensive, that’s the entire point.

I very occasionally miss working at a taco bell, because we made some amazing food. the “cheese roll up” was basically invented as an employee snack before they added it to the menu (it’s just melted cheese in a 6" tortilla, steamed and rolled up). same with the “extreme cheese quesadilla”, which is a cheese…

Taco Bell’s nachos bel grande kinda slap if you make some modifications— you can have them make it with chicken or steak (or, formerly, shredded chicken... sadly no longer), they can add guacamole, and you can have them add any of their sauces such as the Avacado Ranch or creamy jalapeno. I like getting it with…

I don’t think anyone is saying antidepressants are a universal bad thing. The problem is our society has treated them like a panacea and they’re absolutely not. A recent study that made big waves showed strong evidence that the “serotonin deficiency” model of depression is completely incorrect, and studies of…

I think saying “well they’ve gotten people out in the past [when there was no war] means that they’re obviously choosing not to now” is one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard, and that’s saying something.

It’s wrong, but it’s on-brand from the same site that said that using a 1920s animation aesthetic means you need to use it to make a statement about racism, nothing else is acceptable.

had a great line from a Chicago alderman, blasting Aldi’s for closing a store in an area not served by any other grocery— he literally said “crime isn’t that bad there” as if he gets to tell a business what level of (unprosecuted, totally out of control) shoplifting they ought to put up with, or that they should put…

bingo!  plus, paying customers don’t go places they don’t feel safe.  And people nodding off at tables and acting erratically, finding needles with blood in them on the bathroom floor or in the sinks, and incoherent people hassling you is not safe and doesn’t feel safe, so the paying punters leave and then the stores…

Alcohol may be alcohol but what you are drinking, unless you’re drinking everclear, is not absolute anhydrous ethanol. Unless you’re drinking vodka it’s not just an ethanol solution either.

Not to mention the domestic tech experts left are usually able to secure much better paying jobs with criminal ransomware and initial access broker gangs, with the full approval of the government.

yeah, there’s no way you could pay ME enough money to install something made in the world’s #1 source of ransomware attacks and malware (include crypto-miner malware).

that does sound amazing, I really like Portillo’s “cake shakes” that basically take a slice of their famous chocolate cake and dump it in a vanilla milkshake

a pop tart blended into a milkshake sounds really good.

I think you might have left off the biggest one— Materials!

The guy’s channel is called “mother’s basement” and he signs out as “your professional shitbag”-- it’s being done tongue FIRMLY in cheek.

What it adds is an option for people that wouldn’t otherwise be able to play because they have children, or have a religious obligation not to view nude women (though I can’t imagine many Hasidic Jews are playing Bayonetta anyway given its themes and use of religion they’re not the only group with such beliefs, just…