It’s a natural evolution of technology. Same reason why we moved away from fax machines, manual flight check-ins and so on. We also need it because people are horrible at driving when we think about it. 100 years from now, we might not even have traffic lights because cars would be able to communicate with each other…

I think if you don’t care about those rules you should ditch them. But if you do care about those rules, then this tool is helpful.

It’s an opinion piece, appended to a blog that often features opinion pieces.

The primary divide between this opinion piece and others on larger, more prominent platforms (looking at you, Cillizza) is that Nathan took the time to break down the primary components of the controversy, to explain why each side feels the…

Y’know what? Thanks for taking the time to break things down to the level you did; there’s a tendency in current social discourse to immediately take the most emotionally-reflexive and intellectually simple reaction to any situation, and I really appreciate that you slowed down and broke this situation into its…

The American right wing has basically gone from slavers to Jim Crow-ers to the people who call twelve year olds thugs after they get shot by police, so I mean...just cause you don’t sing the quiet part loud doesn’t mean you aren’t part of the same song.

Product of an overbearingly strict household growing up here: your kid will grow resentful of you and will rebel more due to you treating him like this. I have a great relationship with my parents now (I’m 26), but there was a lot of resentment and tension in the high school/college years due to how much they tried to…

This kid has a big issue: his mother.

I don’t know you, your kid, or your situation, but I would be careful of going overly harsh. Back in high school my parents threatened to remove me from the rowing team, and I honestly would have tanked/sabotaged my own life before I let them do that. The point being, if you go too harsh you might just create bigger…

No offense, but if this is real and not a (pretty good) troll job, it sounds like your son has a much bigger problem than vaping, being impressionable, or wanting to fit in. Pulling him out of class and taking him into the principal to confess and rat out the rest of his friends sounds like something that will have…

Your kid is 15 and not allowed to use social media? No wonder he’s rebelling.

Sorry, this is America, a wretched, failing empire. Healthcare, here, is a privilage not a right, so... mental health care is only for the wealthy. Gun ownership is the basis of True ‘Merican Culture, and no amount of sanity will ever change that.

The thing about competitive trash-talk is that it comes in “levels.” Those levels are divided into what’s appropriate amongst friends who know each other well enough to be able to accept a barb without taking offense, mixed groups of friends and acquaintances where more care is warranted, groups of strangers where…

Here is where I’ll probably get flamed, but there were so many aspects of her story that sounded unrealistically entitled and just, frankly, willfully unaware. Grace describes going BACK to this man who had just gone down to her, and FULLY NAKED, “...sat down on the floor next to Ansari, who sat on the couch, she…

My takeaway? Old time views on courtship and pursuit cannot co-exist with modern feminism. Do away with “non-verbal cues.” Millennial women cannot harp on affirmative consent and then say “But I gave you non-verbal cues.” Can’t have it both ways.

You’re in the minority there, buddy. These Dragon Age characters have became wank materials just the same to millions of people no different from all the Mass Effect ones.

That’s true, Jason, but I’m not sure Destiny’s expansions really fill the same niche as, for example, WoW’s Legion expansion. They’re more akin (both in scale and frequency) to the free content patches that traditional MMOs roll out.

Yes but WoW hasn’t really gone and removed previous content availability and locked it behind a paywall as far as I’m aware??

Correct.

I was originally going to say I was okay with this because it’s new content but I just did a re-read and, do I have this right as an example: people who only have vanilla Destiny 2 can’t do prestige nightfalls anymore when before the expansion was released they could?

This honestly sounds like a hater trying to bring down the big dog so to speak. When there is work he's done over a period of years and only snippets that seem similar when working with limited source material it just seems to be cherry picking and trying to bring himself into the limelight and get some of that…