This article is definitely hyperbolic, but there are other relevant parallels between Trump and Shinra, beyond the ones you mentioned. The privatization of civic institutions is one. The obsession with a resource-extraction based economy (and flippant dismissal of related ecological concerns) is another. Authoritarian…

Art can explore deeper political themes. Sometimes art can inadvertently take on new political relevance, retroactively, because of changing world events that take place years after its creation. This is a thing that happens. Sorry if it upsets you so much.

It's three discs. 8 and 9 are four discs each.

The pacing is really an under-emphasized reason for VII is such a great game. With long story-based games (especially RPGs) it's very difficult to maintain a steady plot pace from start to finish, but VII does it better than any JRPG I can think of. The only significant time the game really drags is during the…

Cetra Lives Matter

I love VIII but yeah, some of the story gets fucking weird, even by Square-Enix standards.

Animal Farm is a good book but some of the symbolism tends to be a bit ……. ham fisted.

The fans wanted a surprise entrance by Samoa Joe. What they were given was a Samoan who also happens to be named Joe.

The GOP's commitment to "conservative" principles is, shall we say….. flexible.

They are deliberately omitting important details that explain the lack of Christians in the Syrian refugee program. Besides your already-mentioned point about Christians being underrepresented in the camps because they fear Sunni persecution, the overall Syrian refugee population itself skews heavily Muslim. Syria's…

I think the voting probably wrapped up prior to this.

Cena is a classic example of someone confusing marketability with talent. "I've been at the top of WWE for ten years, that means I'm more talented than you!" No Cena, you've been at the top of WWE for ten years because you have the kind of natural clean-cut superhero look that Vince can sell to kids. Without that…

"Uncle Jack (Andrew Friedman), who’s come to retrieve a hard drive he his under the floorboards when he was renting a room."

Pyramid schemes, war profiteering, and religious lunacy. The three pillars of American society. #MAGA

Betsy DeVos's vision of the ideal American society is a glorious utopia in which students rack up $50,000 in student loan debt from a for-profit college, enlist for a four-year overseas security job with Blackwater to pay it off, and then convince their former squadmates to become Amway distributors after their tour…

I have to hand it to the GOP: it takes some goddamn amazing salesmanship to somehow convince half of America that low-paid government bureaucrats, reporters, and college professors represent "the elite" while billionaire bankers, oil executives, and lobbyists represent "the people". You can't help but applaud the fact…

Morons tend to hire people who are even dumber than they are.

You misunderstood her answer. She wants school administrators to have guns so that they can shoot any large hairy gay men that might be nearby.

You seriously someone like Betsy DeVos is up to date on the intricacies of LGBT relationship dynamics and slang terms? She probably hasn't even been told the truth about the Village People yet and listens to them un-ironically.

Everyone knows that "Real America" = the 20% of the country that lives in rural areas where people are outnumbered by large apex predators. "Fake America" = the 80% of the country of who live in cities and are therefore latte-sipping centrist/liberal pussies who think a "bear" is a big hairy gay dude.