It’s not a good point at all, if only for the fact that our country has changed a lot in the last 150 years and so doesn’t need to answer to why it’s doing differently than it did five generations ago.

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God” (Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV)

My quick take:

They did turn out to be trump supporters

TL;DR The point is that the waitress didn’t know whether they voted for Trump. So I think it’s wrong for her or anyone else to assume they did.

I submit that it’s a bad idea to look down on people because you think they did something you dislike and your only evidence is their race, gender, and home state.

I guess I was a bit unclear in my original wording. We can make the case that Shovel Knight looks bad, but I wouldn’t, because it’s aiming for a certain aesthetic and hitting it nicely. BUT, Shovel Knight, I think, WOULD look bad if there hadn’t been an 8-bit era as we know it. If games had begun life as good-looking…

It’s not possible to be wrong on matters of opinion. That’s an improper definition of the word “wrong.”

I certainly wouldn’t argue that Shovel Knight “looks worse,” but I think it’s worth saying that it reaches for lower-hanging fruit because of a more abstract style and banking on the nostalgic appeal of the “worse”…

I’m kinda torn on this. The first thing I thought when I saw the Black Tiger footage was, “This looks like PS1-era graphics.” The second thing was, “But if it were 8-bit, it’d sell on the nostalgia factor.”

I appreciate your thoughtfulness on this, so I’d like to add my thoughts to your thread.

Agreed. Fallout: The Board Game needs to happen.

Agreed. Fallout: The Board Game needs to happen.

If the purpose of the sentence was to punish her, she has certainly been punished; multiple suicide attempts in jail show clearly how deep her anguish is right now. She has suffered enough.

What I’d do immediately after purchasing them.

What I’d do immediately after purchasing them.

Or to put it another way, “Everyone, EVERYONE, deserves better than having to be someone’s secret. If they aren’t cool with telling everyone, you deserve better.”

The Raid is the better film, but the sequel has the best fight, and probably my favorite fight of all time. I still boot up the movie from time to time just to watch it again...

That depends. Do you know the person behind the keyboard? I don’t.

The character in Aloha, Captain Allison Ng, was written to be half-white, one-quarter Chinese, and one-quarter Hawaiian. So:

EXACTLY. If you want people to change their minds about a dumb idea they have, the first thing you have to do is not call them dumb. Or, as I like to put it, “You can’t egg someone’s house and then ask if they want to come out and play.”

“Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone,…

You’re right. Neither of those things disqualifies you. I was merely correcting OP’s post, which was likely just a fluke of syntax.