I’m pretty sure people in my dorm at college owned N64s exclusively for Goldeneye. It was probably the most popular multiplayer game besides maybe Mario Kart. 

Perfect Dark was amazing and improved on Goldeneye in virtually ever way.

Is that what happened and why everybody on Splinter (including me) are back in the grays?

“Journalists have a bad, bad habit of equating length with substance and depth,” he said in an interview.

Sometimes all these former jocks and their hangers-on (and angry middle-aged white guys on down the line) forget that professional sports is entertainment. 

This feels like a chicken-egg situation. Do they act like this because they have no friends, or do they have no friends because they act like this? 

Just think -- in some distant alternate timeline, these two dipshits are telling the truth. Feels like an episode of Black Mirror. 

“... but Metoo has ruined many careers from mere accusations. Just the accusation. Like, the accusation is made, dude immediately fired. No chance to find if something is “credible”, whatever the hell that really means.”

I think like Project Veritas last year, Burkman really thought that you could just make up accusations of sexual assault and the media would run with them. They’ve convinced themselves that’s how it works, so they figure they’ll try it too, then reality smacks them in their dumb fat asses. 

Thank you for linking that article about Project Veritas (which I can barely believe isn’t even a year old). I immediately thought about some of their idiot schemes as this one unfolded. 

Well said. And taking it even a step further, these guys bought their own bullshit to the point that they apparently really think women regularly fabricate sexual assault allegations to take down their enemies. They claim it’s so easy, and then they figure since it’s easy, they’ll do it too.

But that’s exactly what I’m talking about. Quit assuming everybody knows the answer to these questions. Quit assuming everybody understands why racism is bad and the social safety net is good or why the president wants to end birthright citizenship for “those” people. These assumptions leave vacuums that are filled…

I think overestimating how many people share our knowledge of current events and civics is demonstrably flawed and dangerous.

So you read that headline this morning about “Trump to End Birthright Citizenship” and immediately knew that he actually can’t end birthright citizenship via executive order because it’s a constitutional amendment? If so, fair enough and good for you, but I’m extremely confident that vast majority of voters aren’t…

This is it exactly, and it makes Swan as complicit as his sources on this “leak.”

Jonathan Swan is also all about “civility.” 

This is what kills me about access journalists like Swan, Haberman, Schmidt, etc. When your “scoop” is a White House official effectively “leaking” a press release to you, that’s not a fucking scoop. You’re just being used to legitimize a press release.

Whataboutism. False equivalency. Ad hominem.

But what is the point of letting someone’s idiocy shine through when half the voters in the country agree with the idiocy and will only receive reinforcement of that idiocy from multiple propaganda channels with virtually no explanation whatsoever of why it’s idiocy?

Swan listens to Trump say that it’s “ridiculous” that a person born in America gets American citizenship “for 85 years, and all the benefits that brings,” and his immediate question is where in the process this alleged executive order is, not “What the fuck do you mean when you say that’s ridiculous?”