The dissonance between Evangelion and how it’s been commercialised is nothing new. Just look at basically any of the merch.

...uh, yeah, it’s a fun game, but it’s not some masterpiece or anything. It does a good job of creating enough complexity and challenge, and is certainly worth the money, but it is not one of the best games of 2022...

I agree that Vampire Survivors looks like a great game, but I think it’s impact on Gamepass will be minimal considering it only costs $3 to purchase.

A good step towards progress on this front would be enveloping social media under the same umbrella as news organizations and start holding them financially responsible for the content of their sites in the same way we hold newspapers and TV broadcasts accountable.

“A Facebook spokesman confirmed to the The New York Times that the video was in fact in violation, but couldn’t explain why notifications to the contrary had gone out to some users.”

Ooh!  Ooh!  I can!  It’s because the supposed reporting feature on Facebook is absolute horseshit virtually every time, except if you say…

It’s America.. he’s murdering black people... rest assured, there are TENS OF MILLIONS of americans cheering for him. Because america is an awful shithole.

There is an old episode of “Bullshit!” with Penn and Teller about gun control. It ends with a young boy, who was a big fan of CoD, being taken to a range with his mother and being allowed to fire an AR.

There is nothing, NOTHING in a videogame that can prepare you for that level of force and power.

This came across my twitter timeline and, because I’m a child of ogrish/rotten.com, I watched

My brain is broken and desensitized to many of the evils that human do to each other...but him pointing the gun as the white man, then quickly pulling it back and saying “Sorry” should make this a fucking open and shut hate…

I fire real guns semi-regularly and videogame guns extremely regularly...

There is nothing, NOTHING in a videogame that can prepare you for that level of force and power.

Nothing can prepare you for the first time a round gets jammed, and for half a second you feel like you’re holding a timebomb.

and besides that, I’ve…

Likely several members of the US House and Senate. 

The same ones that fantasize about doing it themselves, presumably.

“I’ve invented a lie detector machine!”

Polygraphs are not admissible in court.  Yes, they get used in investigations, but given how unreliable they are, they’re never actually entered as evidence.

I wouldn’t even give them 50% accurate. Maybe in lab conditions with some pretty strict standards and very simple questions.

All these things do is detect a bunch of physiological reactions, and assume they represent stress. That that stress can be consistently tied to lying.

Sorry, my timeline doesn’t even believe vaccines work. Everyone here definitely thinks polygraphs are foolproof lie detectors.

Are people really this unaware that polygraph tests don’t work. They are only about 50% accurate, which makes them literally useless. The fact that we use them in court cases is truly scary.

I’ve spent over an hour waiting to get through a TSA checkpoint.

I take the opposite approach, I leave for the airport early, get there early, and then sometimes spend an hour just getting to my destination at a leisurely stroll, people watch, Snack on something, read a book.
Because in the end, what are you going to do with that hour at home or in the office, besides prep to leave.…

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