My guess is the latter. Having said that, I recall being able to blow people into “gibs” in Deus Ex, which might make him hypocritical, if he hasn’t dissavowed stuff like that previously. His other games haven’t had that level of gore (nevermind exploding Nazi brains)...so I wouldn’t hold it against him myself.

The test question is “are you explaining this person’s life to them?”. Like, explainingto the girl working the IT helpdesk how to use a printer. Basically being presumptuous and condescending as hell.

Yeah, for starters, it’s not defamation if it’s true. Boy is ffffaaaaaaaaaaaat.

2 words: Tax cuts. They’re pro-GOP because they believe it’s in their financial interest to do so. They just want the cash and the respect on top for free.

Depends on how you slice and dice the racial pie. Keep it black vs white...sure. Throw in the other races and...well...let me put it this way: Trump did better with Latinos than Romney did. I’ll let that sink in for a second.

I can totally see libertarians digging Trump. Not necessarily the campaign rhetoric, but the presidency itself. He’s haphazardly sabotaging the entire executive branch. Nonfunctional government might as well be nonexistent government.

And mostly old. I mean, not entirely old, but more old than it is male, and most Trump voters were male too. Not necessarily old AND male, but that’s probably the single biggest demographic.

It’s different tonally from the previous shows, but it’s very much intended for fans. They drop good, well researched references every episode (not too obnoxiously, they generally make sense).

I took it as “the NFL is incestuous AF and if they think this stupid thing was *my* idea I’m out of work because theres only 32 of these evil bastards and they all live forever and hold grudges twice as long”.

Right, you got a degree (I assume) so you’re the sole authority on the subject.

Any field that spans thousands of years is going to be general and subject to judgment. People can’t even agree when the Roman Empire ended (I go with 1453 myself, but am receptive to the suggestion it really died with Justinian) and that’s a specific question. Just because something is hard to define does not mean it…

Malls aren’t really dying. Like a lot of things, it’s the middle that’s getting hollowed out. Big, 4-5 million sqft regional centers like MOA (which is far larger than 5MSQFT, but whatever), are expanding due to network effects. Local retail (strip malls, town centers, urban retail) is having a renaissance because the…

Came for the “I hate Illinois Nazis” reference. Glad I was not disappointed.

Explosions are just pressure waves. If they’re big enough, or you’re close enough, you probably could hear them in space. But...yeah... probably really muted. Like, the Pegasus ramming the Cylon ship and then exploding might result in a dull thud at any distance where one could actually survive the carnage.

You people already had 9 years of Trump. You called him Stephen Harper. Sure, Steve-o didn’t rant on Twitter and was actually fluent in English, but the real damage was in the lies and attempts tomuzzle scientists.

Well, that explains the city in Indiana.

Well, rent is like an asset that depreciates from 100% to 0% in 30 days. So yeah, that makes you kitchen remodel (which takes 20 years to become worthless) look really good by comparison.

YUP. Fun fact: houses are depreciating assets too. Don’t believe me? Stop maintaining the thing and tell me what it’s worth in 10 years. If you’re close to even, factor in inflation.

He ended up chugging a lot of that Kanar on screen (which according to Marc Alaimo (Dukat) was disgusting)?

Maybe, but that depends on the following seasons. TNG is the high point of the franchise, but the first season (in particular) was and is dreadful (with 1 or 2 gems)