Like all those asshole bosses say: if you got time to die, you got time to clean. 

Unless they’re leaving for hell, and never to come back, I don’t give a damn.

Also, as someone who has spent most of her time playing TTRPGs GM’ing, building your narrative and encounters around what your players are interested in doing (which they flag in character creation) is basic good GM’ing practice. I don’t think that making a character I find interesting first and foremost signals…

Like I said in the piece, I do like crunch actually! However, that crunch can be used to totally different ends depending on the game. Lancer, an indie ttrpg about mech, is super crunchy and uses its crunch to tell interesting stories about giant robots. Telling interesting stories with my friends is always the goal,…

I could ask you all to write your comments on a postcard and send them to my house and it would work better than kinja, but 🤷‍♂️

To be fair, the American cinema tend to give the same impression.

Yes, it’s a rotten world. The climate crisis, Q lunatics, an endless pandemic (thanks anti-vaxxers), a new “guilded age”… and uh… rap music?!?

Will GTA VI happen? Probably. Will it be the epic expensive AAA single player experience people have come to expect from a Rockstar joint?

We do already have Jimmy Woo, and a world-spanning organization (possibly) trying to make good. Seems like a good time to bring back the “villainous” Agents of Atlas

Agreed. He’s a huge part of the reason why IM3 is my favorite of that series. The comics Mandarin is a garbage character and always was. The IM3 fakeout is brilliant, and the way Shang-Chi creates a new character (instead of reverting to the old, terrible one from the comics) is good too. They can both be good!

Nah, the Trevor twist was awesome.

I think the challenge is everyone has different standards. This is particularly true for the Left, which is something of a patchwork of interests and identities. Sure, there are many of us who “check all the boxes”, but there are many who don’t. And I’ve repeatedly seen circular firing squads where folks engage in a…

I apologize to you—and/or anyone else in the thread—for my narrow and reflexive negativity. My original comment was a reflexive projection of my own recovery experience vis-à-vis the broader, outdated, moralistic, draconian “all or nothing” recovery culture. Thank you for providing a more nuanced, empathetic, and…

There also are a ton of activists who felt the black box was not only superficial BS, but overshadowed messaging from activists, making it harder to truly organize 

as someone in recovery and having seen the successes and failures of so many people in my recovery meetings, people aren’t textbooks and most of the ideas around addiction are quickly losing merit. especially as we learn how dangerous the purist/disease model and all the “red flag projections” baggage it carries with…

Is it? I’ve always assumed the root of this genre was Taken.

I think it’s easy to dismiss her, in this case, because what she’s saying just isn’t the experience of a lot of people. And it doesn’t help that her most recent movie felt fake no matter where you were watching it.

Someone once suggested Paul F. Tompkins for host. We need to amplify this worldview as much as humanly possible.  

Hole is my fave grunge music from the era. I think Courtney is just a person with a lot of issues and money, and a fuck ton of trauma from the public accusing her of killing her husband and the public doing a disservice to Kurts real addictions and mental health issues. I do think she has a certain lyricism to the way…