“And given the popularity of the Switch, much of the world already has a portable gaming device.”

No. It doesn’t.

As of May Switch sales were around 85 million, out of a global population of somewhere over 7.6 billion. Now that’s a lot of Switches, but it’s only about 1% of the global population.

That’s not ‘much’ of the…

Parasocial relationships have existed since the birth of media - it’s just a term that describes the relationship a consumer has to a piece of media, even something as benign as ‘disinterest’ to a creator is as much a parasocial relationship as slavering worship. Parasociality is not internet-specific.

What you’re…

Christ but that bar is so low.

The closest America came to having a decent human being be president is Carter, who decided to wait until AFTER he left the most powerful office in the world to really buckle-down and be as decent as possible.

Earth is not, actually, in any way shape or form overpopulated - this is a fallacy born of capitalism that creates false scarcities and then uses debunked malthusian ideology to argue that the vast quantities of human misery are due to poor people breeding a lot, and not to the scarcities and destruction capitalism…

Cool Dads don’t slaughter other people’s children through expanded drone warfare.

A tunes playlist isn’t really going to make up for that.

And that’s what led you to be a Disney villain, correct?

So... what if Minecraft was RealMyst?

There’s a scene in DS9 where Odo basically lays out how totally broken straight relationships are. I’ve always had a hard time liking Keiko O’Brien because frankly she doesn’t seem to like very much about Miles, and barely tolerates his interests - and then the show both wants us to be on Miles’ side well at the same…

Are straight people okay?

Because honestly the number of straight relationships out there that seem to be based solely on physical attraction - e.g. ‘we got married even though we share no interests and my spouse actively belittles all my hobbies when she doesn’t outright ban them’ - are insane.

You make it sound like the Democrats’ tactic of looking concerned while doing nothing for fear of disappointing right-wing ‘centrists’ won’t be effective in protecting American democracy.

“We deliberately built them wrong! As a joke!”

Elite’s visuals were so completely inaccessible, in the sense of ‘accessible for people like me with visual disabilities,’ that I had to walk away. Wasn’t playable, because hideous form always comes before function in sci-fi, because something something artistic choices.

It’s a reference to a now decade-old meme about Women Laughing Alone With Salad as a weird visual trope in advertising stock images.

https://medium.com/collective-rage-a-play-in-five-boops/women-laughing-alone-with-salad-the-meme-the-myth-the-legend-88b7179689ea

I mean Red vs Blue has a decade plus of storytelling and popularity that rejects that point.

I made three attempts to play this game and failed every time. I get angry remember what an utterly incoherent experience those opening ten hours are - this is a game that drops fantasy names at your from the get go and puts no effort into providing context clues for what it’s talking about. There’s a bad trend out…

Save yourself the effort and delte the rest of the game while you’re at it.

I don’t think you can call any game that sold over five million copies in its first four years a ‘cult classic.’ It’s gone multi-Platinum - it’s not obscure or niche or ‘slipped under the mainstream’ in any meaningful sense.

Nothing offends me faster or more disproportionately than realizing someone is advertising something at me. My computer is built mostly of ad-block software at this point, so every time an ad gets through i get extremely offended at the intimate tones and suggests they know me.

I don’t laugh when I eat salad and I…

All true facts, my friend. I meant only to comment on their... unfortunate sartorial choices.

What? A group of vtubers who “release streetwear” and shilled crypto might be... not entirely upstanding people?

I cannot believe that folk who dress like Jason from The Good Place and publicly play Fornite weren’t offering trustworthy fiduciary investment advice for a fringe currency market.