Look at how much shadow they’re shooting in. I’m willing to bet that screen is going to have real trouble competing outside with the sun during much of the year.

“In what world is this pandemic over?”

*laughs*

The idea of Quake II as the best shooter of all time is hilarious, and I played it when it was brand new. Iconic for its time? Beyond a shadow of a doubt. But I’ll take Half-Life over Quake II, 10/10.

Another positive, uplifting report from Earther. It is not surprising that humanity didn’t prioritize the climate while dealing with a public health emergency. Consequently, it is not surprising that very few things got better for the climate while we were focused on said public health emergency.

Yeah, I didn’t like that, either. 

While I have nothing against the goal of inclusion, the extension of the LGBT acronym can reach ridiculous extremes. See, for example:

According to the current Star Trek timeline, Kirk was only a Lieutenant when Garrovick died in 2257. I guess SNW takes place in 2258 or 2259? But I’m pretty sure Kirk refers to himself as “green as grass” in the episode where he talks about Garrovick — and if he was a junior lieutenant in 2257 he wouldn’t likely have…

What’s really strange is... he’s wearing a shirt with three gold stripes on it, meaning he’s a Captain already.

Maybe if Dems don’t want to lose, they should get their house in order and get some of their recalcitrant members of THEIR PARTY to support the things they, you know, promised to do if they got power.

Republicans get shit done because their membership knows if they step out of their Party line, political hell will reign down upon their heads.

expand the Supreme Court.

“as though they were totally incapable of action until they had a supermajority in every level of government.”

They can’t. That’s what makes all of this so asinine. Progressives blame the Democrats for not delivering their preferred policies instead of the GOP, because they know the GOP doesn’t care where the Democrats (supposedly) do.

species are just a human invention we use to better organize our understanding of how different organisms are related to each other.

“My guess is that you are not LGBTQI+ nor is someone you are close to. So you cannot empathize with or understand what they have to do to survive in this world.”

Empathy does not depend on personally knowing someone who is impacted. Empathy depends on the ability to put yourself in the shoes of someone else and imagine…

I would argue that KOTOR works, specifically, because so *much* time had passed that the galaxy in that time period was an entirely different place. Just the existence of multiple Sith and the Mandalorians being a force to be reckoned with made it unusual relative to Star Wars games (what there were) at the time.

“Bricked: cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis.”

One person’s permanent is another person’s repairable problem, and I’m not trying to be pedantic. Let’s say (as an example) that you update the BIOS on your motherboard and do it wrong.…

For the record, I’m with you. 

“Our history teachers often taught us about the tragedies of pandemics and wars, but we were once naive enough to think these things wouldn’t happen in our lifetimes... Perhaps the only difference between what we’ve already seen and what’s happening now is that it’s occurring in a predominantly white, Western country.”