Which really just means that their favored groups will get special treatment, just like when the Repugs have it all. Most of our daily lives won’t change much, if at all.

That Trump leaves office in 2 weeks ALONE makes 2021 better than 2020. That we now have functional vaccines against SARS-COV-2 only improves things more, and will continue to do so as it proliferates.

Most Americans don’t live in such conditions, but there are a few places where that is the way of it, unfortunately. That bit has become worse since the advent of Social Media, where every nitwit, no matter how extreme their viewpoint is, can somehow manage to scrounge up a million followers who spread their idiocy…

Yeah, that I get. This is why I will never, EVER support a Populist candidate of ANY kind. No matter what (usually dubious) positives they bring to the table, one thing is always true: their most ardent followers are fucking LUNATICS.

Yeah, yeah. People say that EVERY election cycle. Few ever follow through.

I think it’s a little absurd to claim that all people of any group don’t care about the rule of law or the constitution. That’s just silly. Of course they do. The handful of people out there in this situation are a lunatic fringe, and not a thing more than that. And that’s the problem with social media: it’s…

I’m unabashedly in the “fuck Trump” camp, and I don’t give a shit who does or doesn’t like it.

Why would I feel lost and confused? A bunch of lunatics who can’t accept political defeat (which happens every cycle) throw a temper tantrum. Boo hoo. Doesn’t change my identity or threaten it in any way. They are morons, full stop, end of story.

Yes, and they were *already* rapid breeders, a century before Discovery, so the writers failed at continuity. Again.

Not necessarily. They may stay fairly hands off. They have more to gain by leveraging these studios’ strengths than they do forcing top down changes. I can see them insisting on franchise exclusivity, and hopefully on better quality control from Bethesda (who never met a bug or glitch they didn’t want to ship with the…

But will they still carry the same endless bugs and poor design choices? 🤣

Actually, no, you’re not correct. This is not part of the Xbox One generation at all. That it has an nvme ssd and hardware accelerated ray tracing, with native 1440p at 120fps, is more than smoke proof of that. This is the same generation as Series X, at a lower price point and with scaled back specs.

I plan to buy the Xbox series X and the PlayStation 5, non digital version, simply because I like having the choice between physical and digital. That said, I won't be buying either one at launch. There simply aren't enough compelling reason to pay a premium so I can suffer through the inevitable bugs, glitches, and…

4k upscaling will be fine for most games, in most ways, for most people. Look at current gen xbox and playstation games. They’re STUNNING, and very few of them run at native 4k on either system.

Although I agree Microsoft marketing is often mediocre, if you cannot figure out where these systems fit in the pecking order, that’s on you. It isn't complicated. 

No, victim mentality is absolutely a real thing, and it’s a tool that political manipulators use to elicit anger, rage and and CONTROL over others. Nobody has asked you to submit to anyone’s control within this conversation. Rather, what I suggested was that you take control into your own hands and work to making your…

I don’t think there’s so much a belief that there’s no way to reign them in as it is an open question: how do you do it constructively and consistently? No two batty artists are batty in quite the same way, and even the same artist might be off the rails one way today and a different way tomorrow. It’s definitely not…

I wouldn’t say it’s “set up to enable these people and profit off them” so much as that happens when you’re working on massive scale projects with hundreds of contributors who all earn a salary. The reason you try, if at all possible, to keep the production rolling when one guy turns out to be flaky is that there are…

No, capitalism does not suck (we don’t even HAVE much of it and haven’t for a century). What sucks are people’s unwillingness to realize their insecurities lead them to act like jerks sometimes. Most of us do it on some level, at some point in our lives. The real trick is to acknowledge and try to understand your own…

No, the problem is taking a victim mentality. I did it for decades. It doesn’t work. It never has, and it never will. What it achieves is creating a sense of despair, self loathing, envy, and a culture of blame. It’s a dead end road, and it always leads to the same place: fascism.