Lol, there are still people who think Musk is playing Nth dimensional chess?

The Elon News Cycle:

then said he was wrong about the whole thing.

To this day Comet Ping Pong employees receive death threats because of PG, and can now expect a fresh batch of new and creative threats cause of this douche canoe.

One thing Pizzagate goobers never talk about is that the Comet Ping Pong gunman proved it was fake. He shot through a lock and found no hidden doors or sex dungeons, then said he was wrong about the whole thing. And Elon is still validating it seven years later.

Excellent article. But to this point “none of that seems to have inspired him to be any more careful about what he tweets”, does he have to be careful?  Advertisers are indicating that they are pausing putting ads on X.  They have jumped ship and returned before once the dust settles.  Capitalism is happy to cozy up…

I found the game kind of meh. It had some interesting aspects that were mostly counterbalanced by boring and/or tedious elements. I get the “mixed” status on steam because that is right where I’d put it. I gave up about 25 hours in cause it just wasn’t holding my attention.

Okay, fine. Let me rephrase: “if you already are paying for GamePass, then you will not have to spend any extra money to play Starfield”.

Some of the BIG timesinks (bases) aren’t actually useful and don’t do anything. Likewise, you don’t need to do a bunch of crafting once you get the ability to put mods on weapons. Spaceflight is neat but once you get a good ship you’ll cheese everything really easily. And there’s a design issue in that NPCs don’t…

I totally thought it was CGI as well, but apparently it’s a REALLY cool animatronic that they just augment with CGI. There’s a behind-the-scenes video where you can see them using the remote control facial movements at about 7:45 -

I feel like RTD and Garth Marenghi's attitudes about writers who use subtext align perfectly 

I’ve read comments from wheelchair users saying that they particularly LOVED that they showed the character crossing her legs, because it dissolves the assumption that wheelchair users are all paralyzed from the waist down.

That was a bit clunky for me, too, but I also felt like it was the sort of thing Donna might say teasingly just to be a bit of a shit.

Ruth Madeley? She was born with spina bifida. Both her spine and spinal cord didn’t develop properly (meaning she has a gap in her spine), ergo why she uses a wheelchair. (She’s also quite the prominent disability rights campaigner here in the UK as well as being a brilliant actor - if you’ve not seen her in Years And…

It was nice to see a trans actress get a big part (I presume she’s going to be a companion going forward? I’ve tried to avoid reading too much news about the new series) without any real fuss being made over it by anyone in the run-up (that I’ve noticed, anyway).

I do think rooting the metacrisis resolution in character identity was a good move, but the execution was a bit ham handed. But that’s RTD, isn’t it: the stories don’t make sense, and the emotional beats are strung together like a child’s charm bracelet, but it keeps zipping along quick enough that you won’t notice.

Watching “The Star Beast,” I was reminded of something I wrote in a comment on this site, many years ago:

You mean, like, they should air a brand new special? Like they are doing this weekend? Oh man, I think they should.

A reality competition producer is a terrible person. Who’d have thunk it?

As Upton Sinclair said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Or maybe this guy is just bad at understanding things generally.