This is the realization of something that Extra Credits put forth in a video years ago...that game reviews must evolve into being art criticism if games themselves are to be taken seriously as art.

Kirk, this is easily the best game review I’ve ever read, but also the best writing of any kind that I’ve read on this website. I enjoyed your creative narrative prose over the the technical trappings of FPS and other “data.”

If people are mad, not because they misunderstand the article, but because the journalist who wrote it was insufficiently deferential to a powerful (former) politician, I don’t really have any sympathy for them.

I think the three of us (me, you, Libby) agree that Medicaid is good. We agree that Medicaid expansion saves peoples lives. However, Republicans have actively resisted Medicaid expansion. They’ve tried to roll back Medicaid expansion and traditional Medicaid through legislation (unsuccessfully), the courts…

I’ve tried explaining to my extended family that the more people who have insurance, any kind of coverage, means that everyone will pay less. It’s as if the people who beat my ass if I got bad grades in high school, and saved whenever they could to help me go to college, are actually numskulls.

He keeps using the term “concept”, like he’s admitting to the world that he and the Saudis have been auditioning scapegoats & test-driving different excuses ever since the murder— like it’s a storyboard project gone wrong. Last we heard from Trump, he was floating the “concept” of Rogue Killers as he got it from the…

Where it should have stopped is at the deal standpoint, when they thought about it.

Khashoggi’s death has created a huge headache for the American political establishment.

“Trump—like the rest of Washington—is more upset about the Saudis’ shitty cover-up than he is about the actual crime that was committed”

He’s always reminded me of a skin suit filled with cheez whiz and cigarette butts, but this description is accurate too. 

He looks like the physical manifestation of what going on a month long bender does to your body.

Looking at him is great motivation to take better care of oneself though, like the Bizarro equivalent to fitspo.

He looks like you took a cheap leather couch and filled it with worms and horrible bad scotch.

As someone who has lived on Staten Island, its truly impressive that he was unable to find enough racist pieces of something to fill the room.

Every time that I think that you guys have found the most repulsive image of Steve Bannon that could possibly exist, you manage to outdo yourselves. I have seen corpses that look less putrified than he does in that image.

He may be a pathetic figure, but the clown he managed to get elected president just declared himself “a nationalist”, and seems pretty happy to pursue white nationalist domestic policies, and isolationist aggressive foreign policies.

He wanted to speak for longer, but the international Jewish conspiracy stopped him because they needed to get the room set up for the Greenberg Bar Mitzvah.

I’d love for him to be booked for one of these and the audience is all FBI agents and the special guest is Robert Mueller.

Annual reminder that low-turnout elections more often favor Republicans.. THAT is why they’re freaking out about all this fresh turnout right now. That is why they’re doing shit like requiring street addresses, disqualifying addresses for a missing hyphen or period, pulling groups of old retiree ladies off buses,…

Mandatory voting is a messy thing as it eliminates the individual’s choice to not vote for either group. That is decidedly authoritarian.