I was at PAX East 2020, which I’d now consider to be the last safe show, it wrapped up just before shit really hit the fan in the US, and the next week Boston had its first superspreader event, ironically enough at a medical conference. Needless to say I’m not opposed in general to attending conventions.

That’s just it: small communities. Size is the key. Once a certain critical mass is reached, the fandom collapses inward into toxicity and recrimination over mutually irreconcilable opinions over what the thing actually is. And it doesn’t take that many people to do this. The larger a fandom, the more vocal, the more…

Ehhh... Kind of. Like the original, it’s heavily invested in a sort of liberal “No really what we need are more Good Cops”. It’s frustrating, the game comes very close to getting the bigger picture in many ways, only to inevitably fail to make the broader point. It will explore all the ways the police are corrupt and…

I’ve got my issues with Lin-Manuel Miranda and his particular brand of relentlessly cloying positivity that he defines himself by online it seems, and I wasn’t that enthusiastic to revisit Hamilton when my mother wanted to watch it with me recently.

Great, now I’m gonna be thinking about Knack’s knock for the rest of the day.

Worth noting that if you break all nine of the Umbral Beast’s shield tiles you can interrupt the cast of Umbral Surge and attack with impunity for a little while. I found this to be the most effective method of dealing with it.

I’m of several minds. On the one hand, I don’t think she’s wrong. Not completely right, perhaps, but justified in her attitude. I also don’t think she’s helping, either helping the Democratic Party, the broader effort to defeat Trump, OR even a narrower effort to thwart Bernie Sanders. Seriously, I don’t see a world…

Notwithstanding all the other reasons why this is horseshit, the devil has enough advocates already, don’t you think?

Kyrie casts his ballot every day for Marianne Williamson in the polling place of his mind, electing her president of his soul.

Yes.

Counterpoint, you should not check out estarland because while the store was cool, the owner is a crook who regularly withholds “taxes” from his employees, all of whom he is actually paying sub-minimum wage under the table. Oh and he treats them like total garbage.

It’s a good article. Worth reading. Honestly doesn’t move the needle much for me, not that I was ever going to vote for Biden unless he wound up with the nomination.

Bernie is that white guy who thinks some anti-racist action in the long-long ago gives you a lifetime white supremacy hall pass. It doesn’t. You need to continue to work at the problem until there’s no more work left to be done, and he just doesn’t get it. Everything proceeds from this fundamentally flawed notion that…

I really want to like this, but it’s currently at 69 likes and I can’t be the one to take that away from everyone.

I really want to like this, but it’s currently at 69 likes and I can’t be the one to take that away from everyone.

I already had my piece to say earlier today, and honestly my time is too valuable to write it again so forgive me the paraphrase: My hope is that if he starts losing again this time around, which, real talk, he probably will, he bows out and his fans take the hint and refrain from harassing the shit out of anyone…

That’s honestly not the point, as there are more sources of injustice than can be adequately explored, the point is that injustice is too complex an issue to have but one root cause. If you were to solve economic inequality today, racism, sexism, all these other problems would still exist tomorrow. You cannot solve…

Okay.

Tulsi Gabbard is a homophobic supporter of such charming people as Bashar al Assad and has close ties to a right-wing Indian political party. She’s constantly playing footsie with the Trump administration and has even interviewed for jobs with them. She’s trash. Congratulations on finding someone more repellent than…

I think they toned that particular effect down for the final release, that’s the earliest trailer. If you look up some more recent clips it’s fine.