Its always interesting to see whether the blatant favoritism to women overrides the blatant favoritism to blacks in stories like these.

“As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.”

Maybe he finally looked his daughter in the eye, only to be overwhelmed by existential despair when he saw how ashamed she was of him.

Meanwhile back in Washington...

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that this guy calls his wife Mother and refuses to treat women like equal humans and not conniving sex hypnotists lusting over his protuberance, or that he’s playing second fiddle to Donald Fucking Trump.

Ted Nugent is a guy who once bragged about shitting his pants to avoid serving his country. The fact conservatives embrace him is just another reason why their world view is irreconcilable with critical thinking.

Voters better fucking show up then too.

I do think this is a flaw in game writing in general that manifested itself in a particularly unfortunate way here - the tendency of characters telling your their deep, dark secrets almost immediately, or anything personal, or really just shit people do not openly talk about with strangers.

I don’t get why it’s so hard just to let anyone fuck whoever they want.
Like why even put restrictions on that sort of thing?

I think the promising and the teasing is what makes the disappointment more legitimate in this scenario. Not only do they have a prior good track record in this stuff, but they continued to cater to progressives who were justified in expecting it would be as good as in past games.

So the Mass Effect series belongs to straight people? How is that exactly?

They’re not asking for simple inclusion, gay characters are already in there. They are sad that the options that are included are shorter, significantly less polished, and stereotypical next to the straight options, a reality that stings more when it comes from Bioware, a company that prides itself in being…

What are you even getting at here? “Keep the gays outta my games”? “Don’t force LGBTQ representation into a series that has had LGBTQ representation in the past, and which the developers promised to include”?

Because its target isn’t necessarily straight males 21-35?

Adding options is “hijacking?”

“That’s what makes it worse, though,” he continued. “It feel[s] like sometimes we shouldn’t even ask for more representation because it makes us seem needy or needlessly offended when the truth is all we’re really asking for is the same things the rest of the gaming community has.”

Never

I am bathing in the glory that is Paul Ryan’s failure today. He is trying so hard to push through his “fuck the poor, make the rich richer” plan that he loves more than anything else in this world. He has everything he should need to make it happen. And it just. isn’t. working. And now he is tied to the flaming…

Sort of, yeah! Except you don’t have to wash off tornado or worry about the tornado on your clothing giving you radiation sickness.

An old-school refrigerator?