Friendly reminder that if you don’t care about seeing it live, TakeOvers go up on Hulu the next day so you can watch it without giving WWE money for it.

Don’t ever leave us again, HamNo.

Unlikely, since there’s no Switch port this year.

And not only is it political, but Blizzard themselves understand how political it is because they censored the South Korean streams during Pride Month to remove any references to LGBTQ+ people or causes to placate South Korea’s massive homophobia.

Even simpler than that: they don’t give a fuck about the controversy and think that the money they could receive for sticking to the Chinese government’s script will outweigh any downside from whatever negative press they receive.

Welp, I have been Poe’s Lawed and feel like a fool.

You know people have jobs like audio/video production where there’s a bunch of downtime and waiting for things to happen even when it’s incredibly busy, right?

Don’t forget, Blizzard went all in on Pride back in June while, at the same time, completely removing any references to anyone or anything outside heteronormativity in their South Korean broadcasts.

So basically your argument is Moral Relativism - to a person that supports the Chinese government, Blizzard did the right thing by silencing the free speech of people protesting an authoritarian government so who are we to judge?

Sadly, Special Projects Desk got killed a few months ago.

I know this is the exact wrong reaction to have right now but god dammit I worked so hard to get out of the greys on Splinter and now Jackoff Spanfeller kills it? It’s a conspiracy I tells ya!

As I said in another comment, here in New York it was quite specifically sold to drivers as a full time thing. So your anecdotal evidence is nice and all but also completely ignores what the company actually did and said.

Fucking stop with this bullshit. In New York, Uber sold it to drivers by literally purchasing ads on the sides and backs of buses advertising that drivers could make up to $6,500 a month driving for Uber. Does that sound like the kind of money someone using Uber as a “side hustle” could make? Stop buying into obvious…

Has it ever occurred to you that if Blizzard’s ability to operate at their current capacity is reliant on kowtowing to the will of an autocratic regime and that refusing to do so would put their company at risk, perhaps they don’t deserve to exist?

Literally the only people who claim this is supposed to be a “side-hustle” are Uber, Lyft and their defenders because that distinction is important to them labeling their employees as independent contractors. The vast majority of drivers on these apps are absolutely working full-time.

Or they do. I know it’s hard to believe, but there’s such a thing as “actions have consequences” and “people really don’t like a company silencing someone’s speech over pressure from an autocratic regime because they want to make money off the autocratic regime.”

Shut the fuck up, Tomato.

How many times does it need to be explained that “if you pretend it’s not there, it will just go away” doesn’t work in this media climate before it sinks in?

I get the concern about whataboutism, but whataboutism serves a point here because it’s not about using it to discredit the accusations against Trump but acknowledging that this shit has a dampening effect on voter turnout and drives apathy. We literally saw what happened in 2016 where more than half the country…

Look, I know this is going to be the unpopular opinion here since Baraka’s basically the most annoying r/chapotraphouse poster you’ve ever met, but... they’re kind of right. Their argument isn’t Democrats are just as bad as Trump, it’s that this is an incredibly stupid thing to hinge impeachment on. I’m failing to see…