The people who take this show as some kind of a life-philosophy ideal with Rick at its peak are this decade’s version of the people who thought Tyler Durden was the epitome of manliness and cool.

Rick, for all his power, is a hyper-depressed alcoholic unable to find lasting joy in anything and for whom death will be a…

This is an excellent idea. Get a sincere-seeming character who never breaks the act to be a mouthpiece for the Alt-Right who then parrots their actual ideas and just lets them play out to their logical conclusions as the joke.

If you sit there and scream “Look how dumb you are!” at them, it’s easy for them to oppose…

Fuck, there go my holiday plans.
While we’re at it, Trumples, let’s add that no-good Moon to the list too. We get about as many illegal immigrants from there.

I like how she’s just completely unaware of the buttons. Doesn’t even occur to her that that is how you manipulate the stuff on the screen (because why would it?)

There seems to be an awful lot of confusion in the comments about what, exactly, this stuff is. 

This is not a competition to see who can get through the game the fastest (in fact, it’s not a competition at all). This is also not using a Game Genie type thing to break the game.

It is, essentially, a proof for a thought…

To hell with firing squad. Blood Eagle the motherfucker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle

I told this story in a different thread, but it’s super helpful in illustrating these folks’ thought(?) process.

I had a co-worker who I will call Bob. Bob wasn’t the dumbest person in the room but he definitely wasn’t the smartest. He was also pretty anxiety prone. You could charitably describe him as “old…

Just...as a general kinds of heads-up here for folks: These things are not intended for the outside world. They do it and then show it ad nauseam on state-controlled media. They don’t actually expect the outside world to buy into it much, because they don’t really care.

They’ve threatened the US with invasion on the…

Man, y’all are giving Ethan some hate for this article.

The dogs aren’t real, guys. No actual dogs die. Or live. Because they never existed except as lines of code. I get that people have strong feelings about animal cruelty/killing, but this is a bit like telling the actor who played Joffrey that you think he’s a…

Neocon Fundies all have that same fucking look in their eyes. You know the one. Slightly too wide, slightly unfocused, and a distinct impression of being possessed by a vague, low-level fear 100% of the time. Also makes it look like there’s plenty of empty space in the attic, as it were.

This.

I mean, this would explain a lot. Has never used a computer that isn’t his phone. Monotone, overly-enunciated voice when giving speeches where he isn’t allowed to freeball it. Seems genuinely surprised when people explain bills he’s supposedly considered to him.

Although maybe it’s not reading? He might just be blind…

This dude is gayer than Freddie Mercury giving a unicorn a handjob with eye contact. You’re not fooling anyone, Bucko.

Seriously. No straight person gives anywhere near that much of a shit about making 100% sure everyone knows he’s got a case of the not-gays. This dude’s so deep in the closet he makes John Travolta…

This is a bad troll and you should feel bad.

Is there seriously not a single picture of this dude where he isn’t making the went-to-fart-and-accidentally-shit-myself face?

Pretty clearly not what I said but oh well. If you wanna be obtuse about it, knock yourself out; everyone else seems to have gotten it okay.

Huh. Wonder if the artist who put that in there knew what it was? I mean, it’s not like they can’t look to see who worked on and checked in that file, aaand on top of that it’s pretty clearly taken from the symbol on that flag. So, that means either the artist was aware, or they found it on Google and decided to slap…

“Trump”, “Do Anything”. Ha, good one.

Check out the trolls in the greys, foaming at the mouth to condemn people for reacting the same way they know they’d react if this happened to someone on the other side.

Hardcore conservative hypocrisy has always been a staple — your barely-literate Neocon uncle with six teeth divided among his entire extended family…

Nah, he knew he was dead.

Pausing is the equivalent of “GG”ing out in Starcraft, or offering a handshake in Chess. You’re basically saying “I know my position is unfavorable enough at this point that there’s no way I can win this, so you win.”

There’s a subtle line to it, though. If you pause out when you weren’t obviou…

I’ve said this in another thread but I very distinctly recall someone asking King about this scene in the early aughts, and he essentially gave two answers. One was “There’s a view in childhood, especially for preteens, that losing your virginity is the last barrier before the onset of adulthood. So, after defeating…