Bernie’s job is 1,000,000% more legitimate than a Twitch streamer, as is a grocery bag boy’s. “Internet famous” people are propped up by some of the sleeziest business models on the planet, and Twitch in particular holds zero appeal for me as a platform in general because to me it is an incessant noise machine (I’m…

neoliberal sellout chasing clout with socialism-lite talking points

I love how in this instance they can’t shame her by being like “oK wHy NoT jUSt dO pOOoooOOOoorN?” because she already does haha and makes money on this side hustle cry more about it incels

I only regret that I have but one star to give

That’s actually a fair point. I’ve read all of A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones, etc.) so far, and it’s rarely super-explicit, but it’s got off-screen content and implications that would likely never make it into a mainstream video game.

A few things, and I’m not a published fiction writer by any means, so feel free to take this all with a grain of salt:

You know what? You’re 100% right. He had never been mean or abusive or defensive towards me up to that point, and until about a year ago we always seemed to agree on political/social issues.

Ok but you would agree that explicit scenes of pedophilia or hours-long torture of kidnapped homeless people would not be justifiable. There’s very very few people out there who would agree with total carte blanche for creators. I definitely agree it’s overreacting and needless attempts at censorship in this…

This is a very sharp comment, and it rings true for a blowout argument I recently had with a (not-so-bright) now-former friend. He’s basically co-opted politics from black liberation/revolution movements (ones he’s seen wholly on social media) to be a huge dick about any and all political disagreements, including my…

You make a great point, but I think you’re missing the moral absolutism creep (bordering on solipsism) that is driving these behaviors. People now in their 20s-40s grew up hearing absolutist discourse about obviously wrong/right social constructs like segregation, criminalization of homosexuality, etc. Now, they’ve…

There’s a not-so-fine line between depicting something in fiction that feels like sanitized reality or creative world-building and having a nasty villain be a part of that vs. going ahead and depicting some awful shit we see too often IRL and don’t want to be exposed to at all (at least not without really solid reasons…

I normally hate the “if you don’t like it, don’t play it” argument because it’s saying that such-and-such morally reprehensible trope or ghoulish game writing decision can get a pass (from criticism) just because you aren’t going to actively consume it.

The point you’re trying to make might sound good in a vacuum, but realize that there were never any local laws and PSA-style campaigns against boring business suits, but local govs did pass a rash of “anti-sagging” laws in the 2000s explicitly because our country loves to over-police minorities. This NPR story opens…

This guy is also clearly spamming elemental stuff not because it’s the best way to get his desired one-ish-hit kills but because it fills the screen with bloomy shit. IMO ya it’s pretty but I can’t tell wtf is going on even a little bit in most of these tricks.

This is a historically good comment. Here’s pikachu giving you a gold star.

Who is “they”?

I’m instantly reminded of Steve Mnuchin when he was (mostly ironically) kissing Maxine Waters ass in order to run out her time and avoid the actual fucking question during a congressional hearing, leading to the now-famous “RECLAIMING MY TIME!” reaction to stop the shenanigans and attempt to keep him on topic.

I saw this terrible commercial on Hulu for some finance-related app or mortgage company or some shit (you can never really tell the product with these guys), but the sample name they had on one screen was “Martha Kent” and I went

Worth reiterating that, condition or not, Heritage’s record-breaking auctions are all for games that are INCREDIBLY COMMON AND SOLD MILLIONS OF COPIES.