OK, number one, why does a grown man need someone to take him back and forth from the bathroom?

Corporate antiracism at its finest: sorry we poisoned a majority black city’s water, but on the plus side we didn’t give away these t-shirts.

you do you, kid

I’m loving Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India, just as I did its predecessor, ACC: China.

yuck

So I imagine it’ll turn out this guy is a scumbag and he’ll get tried for this murder, but, uh, that’s an awful lot to call an “obvious conclusion.” Kind of exactly the leap to judgment we’re trying to avoid in reforming this here carceral state.

The thing is that Hinkie stans are the kind of people who would rather say “I told you so” than to win their battles. So everything is set up perfectly: the new-look Sixers will draft Ben Simmons and he’ll be amazing, the team will actually achieve not-garbage status, and the Hinkie truthers will say “SEE! The process…

I’ve really enjoyed these podcasts, thanks.

Thanks!

Nice.

Not to be a broken record on this stuff: Deep Blue is amazing at chess. But it doesn’t play chess like a human being. It’s not, in any sense, a human-like general AI. Similarly with this program. And when people talk about AI, that’s generally what they mean, human-like AI. This is technically impressive, but once…

Zack McKracken has to be way higher. Original Monkey Island is far superior to the sequel. Otherwise not bad at all.

This is a bizarre string of pseudo-logic, argument by assertion, and non sequiturs.

See, you literally can’t have a discussion about the actual principle; you just keep giggling about the content, which is irrelevant to the discussion in principle.

The (progressive) internet decided that there are literally no issues at all with the restriction of free expression other than if the government arrests you for saying the wrong thing. Common to internet discourse, this opinion is expressed with total certitude and derision at the idea that anyone could disagree. But…

Everytime any issues of free expression or censorship come up at this site, both its writers and its commenters discuss those issues in terms of the particular content — haha, these dudes like nudie games, I don’t like nudie games, ergo there’s no problem here. But that’s not how these issues work. It’s so tiring to…

But you recognize that, at some point, you actually have completely undermined the ability of people to express a particular artistic or political opinion without committing censorship, under the incredibly-restrictive definition that internet liberals use, right? And that should disturb you. It’s not just that you…

Do you think Amazon should feel free to, say, refuse to sell books that have controversial political content?

I have never played a game like this, and I never will. However: if a movie like Nymphomaniac or Last Tango in Paris was being similarly bowdlerized on a major distribution system like Netflix or Amazon, would you really dismiss it out of hand? And Scarface is censored because it’s beamed into your house whether you…

If the films of Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine were being altered for distribution on Amazon or Netflix, would you really dismiss those concerns in this way? And do you understand that putting a word in scare quotes is not an argument against its use?