Does it really make a difference to your sleep, being able to “recline” a few inches? I ask this as someone who has never managed to fall asleep on a plane without putting my head on the tray table...

That’s generally fair to say. I think the US has had a fairly significant influence on our policies over the years, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill, and a lot of that is going to be from backroom talks. I think that’s the nature of being in a global society, and especially of being neighbors to a country as…

The tax on digital media that was created because they were calling us pirates. Just because they aren’t dictating policy directly doesn’t mean they don’t affect it.

My politicians? I live in the US now because jobs are easier to come by, but I’m Canadian. I think that our politicians would have dismantled drug laws a long time ago if not for the US influence, and that damned tax on digital media in the late 90s/early 00s was a direct case of them influencing us. (I don’t know if…

Hmmm. You say that, but the US definitely has an influence on Canadian laws because of how important a trading partner they are...

Ah, I apologize. Figured you were claiming Trump to be morally superior based on that.

She didn’t. It’s propaganda. Much as I don’t like rapists, people like that still need defense attorneys, and she was told to defend him.

Uh, yeah, no. He shouldn’t have used the word, even quoting someone— which he got wrong. I’m with her. It’s not okay for the alt-right to use it, and it’s not okay for the left to use it. This is how the alt-right calls us hypocrites and gets Americans who aren’t neo-Nazis against us. Just don’t use it.

At the conference’s conclusion, Spencer declared to the press, “The alt-right is here, the alt-right is not going anywhere, the alt-right is going to change the world. And you all need to pay attention to this.”

Oh, from the wording, I kind of thought he was her step-son or step-grandson or something. (I obviously haven’t paid attention to the Trump family.)

Honestly... probably it is. I’d love to know his personal thoughts, but I think that he should worry about his safety in Trump’s shit-list America and keep his private thoughts private while trying to do whatever he can to keep the man from destroying everything he’s done.

I know. It’s bizarre thinking.

The Trump voters I talk to, including the military folks, don’t seem to think it’s a mistake. They don’t think there’s any problem here.

I honestly do not understand these protests. What are people hoping to accomplish? The vote was democratic. Just because we don’t like the results, and are afraid of the results (for good reason), doesn’t change that a democratic vote got the man into power. Protesting this is protesting democracy, which is... well...…

You know what Canada is? Canada is your annoying friend who insists on coming over with a bottle of wine (girls night!) to tell you how everything is going to be just fine even though you got laid off, put your dog down, and found out your husband has another family—two houses down.

To be honest, SJW was never not a slur. Would anyone have called themselves a social justice warrior? No. They’d call themselves an activist or something.

It’s all well and good to check for every character in a cartoon, but a video game has a shit ton of characters. It’s not that hard to miss that someone put in the name/twitter of someone they like. The sad thing is that some programmer or artist probably put in his name because they liked the guy, and now they’re…

You know... I don’t like Trump, and I think anyone voting for him is an idiot, a racist, or both... but this isn’t what he said. He said he thought there needs to be more funding to help soldiers who return with PTSD and can’t cope with the shit they’ve seen and done. Which is true.

MGS 1 had a lot of female characters who weren’t particularly sexualized. Mei Ling, Meryl (who was at the time said to be asexual no matter her silly walk scene), Nastasha, and Dr Hunter (at the time) were not particularly sexy. We had one sexy woman, and a bunch of women supporting characters.

Pff. I lived in Osaka over 10 years ago, and I didn’t have a problem with finding free Wifi. People just don’t research before they go...