I don’t think we should impeach Trump, either. Nancy Pelosi is still, nevertheless, a centrist fucking shill. Just not on account of this.

I don’t understand how anybody can imagine that this is a Watergate-style, Nixonian scenario. Nixon resigned willingly. He was also, whatever else you might want to say about him, an ordinary politician. Trump is not ordinary. He doesn’t have a political legacy to protect from catastrophic harm. He does not care about…

The answer to that problem, of course, is to actually, you know, fucking help people, so that they can’t just be won over by the next huckster who points at brown folks, blames them for the shitty world we live in, and promises to build a wall to keep them all out. Yes, I get it. We all want to point our fingers at…

next we’ll be hearing what a huge liability it is that he’s not for reparations because the 17 ADOS people online don’t like him.

Gee can you find some footage of Bernie talking to black female voters where they aren’t handing him his ass on a platter?

I’m no ageist (OH no), but I worry about the state of his health and the toll that the Presidency (normally) takes on a real highest official.

Well no, it doesn’t “rankle” me. I’m just kind of entertained by how many butthurt centrists populate the forums here. It’s almost like getting you to show up all hot and bothered is kind of the point of Splinter. :D

If the choice is Biden v Trump, the end result won’t matter in the long run. The choice will be obvious in the short run, Trump needs to go, but the next Trump (and there will be another Republican who wins president) will be even worse. I did not think someone could top Bush so quickly. I was wrong.

Question: why do you read Splinter?

If you are the kind of person who wants to just make sure everyone gets along...

There is no hand other than the third one, in this case. Like, seriously, do we even need to consider any other possibility than that this is just a crass attempt to cash in by filling some perceived void in the sincerity/sensitivity market niche? This is to our current era as X-Treme marketing was to the ‘90s. There…

It’s not even remotely comparable, and you know it. Nobody is arguing that Epic had better not buy anything whatsoever. What we’re arguing is that Epic’s financial moves appear to be designed to achieve vast dominance, very quickly, at a genuine cost to consumers (having to use a featureless launcher because Epic is…

This is straight bullshit. Steam started as a patcher and copy protection for Valve games. Publishers came to them when they realized that Valve appeared to have found a solution for implementing anti-piracy measures that didn’t make players want to vomit. That’s how it went. Valve never went on a great purchasing…

At the same time, I think a large part of what fuels a lot of gamers’ unwillingness to see things through is a sense that finishing a game means experiencing an end to consumption. In other words, if you never finish anything, you’re always in the middle of a feast, always consuming. I think we should be at least a…

But this.... this feels..... gross for some reason.

Epic needs to stop stealing games from Steam and look at unreleased games for exclusives, these flip flop of games that are already sold on steam is super annoying.

Which, okay, but why you’d show such loyalty to a corporation that has their market cornered is beyond me.

He’s speculating. He doesn’t have to provide evidence.

But if only straight white dudes are labor, how would this party ever win anything? /s

Oh God, shut up. That’s the NYT living up to its traditional discourse standards. They won’t even print four-letter words in quotes by sources. That’s not a Trump administration thing. That’s an old-hat media thing, and if you think that’s where the average person is getting their news now, you’re crazy. Two of the…