That doesn’t make someone not a philanthropist. “You can’t benefit from it” is not a requirement for philanthropy.

Big star for you, both for the reference and for being spot on. Reminds me of that Onion article about “Marilyn Manson reduced to going door-to-door in attempt to shock people”.

So let me get this straight...

Someone told my wife when she was young that backing up your car right after you turn it on (like getting out of a parking space) damages the engine. She will go to almost any length to back into every parking space so she can start her drive going forward. Nothing I say can dissuade her from believing that car…

I’m convinced there’s nobody in the world who cares as much about Kristen Stewart being gay as she would like them to. It really comes off as though she wishes it were 1999 and she could be more oppressed and transgressive by being gay than the more-progressive 2024 will allow.

“Cancel culture isn’t a thing. Capitalism is a thing.”

I completely agree. The fact that Ellie takes Abby down from the cross, sets her up with a boat, only then decides she wants to kill her, and a few minutes of punching and choking later decides it’s not worth it felt like the writers didn’t know what they wanted until the game was almost out the door. It didn’t feel…

Just for fun, I decided to see what 1/10th the effort would look like. Here it is:

I bought Dark Souls 1 yeeears ago, tried it, hated it, and left it alone. I came back to it and used a Cheat Engine to give myself perfect stats, and still hated it. Thought the whole concept of a Souls game just wasn’t for me.

I’m so glad there are some people who find what Remedy is selling to be puffed up tripe. The story on AW1 was aggressively meh, the ham-fisted rip-offs of Stephen King and Twilight Zone were more conceited than honoring, and man is the combat dumb. Glad to know I wasn’t wrong to skip AW2 because I don’t think they…

I’ll do two:

Is this game good if you thought the first one sucked?

Did you guys really put Hogwarts on this list to offer some more takes on how not-very-good the Game That Shall Not Be Named is? I understand that a ton of people have their identity wrapped up in hating JK and everything she created, up to and including multiple think pieces on how she’s not actually that great a…

There! Are! FOUR! Claps!

You were very patient with them, at least. But some people just don’t want to be wrong.

They could have split the difference and had it be the first ever MK tournament, but sentimental Liu Kang made people like Kitana and Johnny Cage show up a thousand years earlier. Wouldn’t it be cool to see what “pompous movie star” would translate to 1000 years prior? Maybe a duke or earl or whatever with an…

What do you think is BS about that statement? Is it the word “is”? Hinduism is monotheistic (or, to be more technical, henotheistic) and holds that all the “gods” in its stories are just extensions and embodiments of Brahman.

I remembered it as soon as I started reading this article. A lot of people who live on the Internet gave her a lot of crap when she first said it. IT got lumped in with the all-female Ghostbusters movie as stuff that seemed to be made for women by punching down to men.

I know it’s been said here alread,y but I’d just like to add my voice to the chorus of people saying, “America didn’t invent greed, darling.”

Or to put it another way, “Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.”

Sounds like you and Joseph Stalin would have gotten on like a house on fire.