Lol, is that second quote real, or did you just record my 6 year old explaining why he likes video games?

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If you actually read Tolkien, it’s clear that a major theme of his work is rejecting toxic masculinity, even if he was a few decades too early to articulate it in those terms. The downfall of Morgoth, Sauron, and those they corrupt is due to anger, jealousy, and a desire to dominate others - the cornerstones of toxic…

Best take I’ve seen summing up the “outrage”

As a fellow skin-around-the-nail-ripper, I can tell you why she is doing it. It has nothing to do with stress, at least not with the immediate sense of the word, but a lifetime of parental-induced anxiety. It often comes from parents projecting themselves and their expectations onto their child from a young age.

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Because she know what her father’s plans are and she’s not comfortable with it.  It’s what she does to deal with her stress.

Who knows, but that started in the 1st ep before she started hanging out with the King.

I *do* think Hightower wanted Alicent to fuck the king - I just don’t think she had it in her to try and do so (which, in the long run, was the right move even if she didn’t intend it as such). 

Exactly. There are many things that were rushed in the final season, Dany’s character isn’t one of them. She was trending that way for quite awhile. She was just fun to root for, which is why so many people got upset about it when it actually happened.

“... ended with what is arguably the most poorly thought-out character assassination in television history: In a rushed heel turn, Daenerys Targaryen, our intelligent, ambitious, and charismatic (if controversial) heroine for eight seasons, looked down on King’s Landing from astride her dragon, went abruptly apeshit,…

Not merely disagreement, but a sort of needlessly defensive #NotAllMen kind of response that tries to minimize the “bad” ones with an empty, “We’re more popular than you,” boast, as if popularity was ever a measure of quality, unless your idea of a good time is watching La La Land while drinking Bud Light and reading…

Religion is for the feeble-minded. How powerful can your gods be if they need you to defend their extremely fragile egos when someone writes a make believe story that contradicts the make believe story your parents made you hitch your wagon to since birth?

I’ve read the Verses and found it an excellent book. The big irony is that the dream sequences which have angered the Islamic world aren’t even the focal point of the novel. I’ve read nothing else of him, but the novel is very much in a magical realist tone, i.e. a mostly realistic tale with some fantastic elements…

Pretty much everyone’s predicting Harley is going to be Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.

so this isn’t an elaborate troll job on Armie Hammer from his 2 collaborators on Call Me By Your Name?  LOL

“He could have served me discreetly, but instead...

This is why I’ve put so much time into Hades. One run takes 20-30 minutes typically. I can knock it out after work but before dinner.

This. Not everyone who loves video games has the luxury of sitting and playing for hours on end. I’ve developed a real appreciation for games that respect my time. 

I sense you’re a fellow old person (i.e., ~30-40) and thus appreciate your old person review. These are the kind of takes I like.

As someone who doesn’t have a ton of time for gaming right now, I’m finding the looping mechanic rewarding as I can hop in for a half an hour or so and make progress, then go do real life stuff, then maybe knock out a level or two before bed. So many immersive sims require a large time commitment to be immersive, but…