So, hear me out - Chris Pine as Richard Ryder, aka Nova, directed by Christopher Nolan with Christopher Meloni as the villain, Garthan Saal.

Just once I want a game dev to come out and say “Yes, this game is inspired by actual real-world events, because we live in the real world and we’d have to be fucking stupid to just ignore everything going on around us.” and then follow that up with “And I’d like to send a message to all the knuckle-dragging,…

“Going to the border” is performative theater for people who want to look concerned about a problem but aren’t really interested in addressing the root cause of the problem.

Healthcare is to Republicans as immigration is to Democrats.

The most popular movie in Idiocracy was “Ass”, which takes place in 2505.

Hot take - this is the end result of low airfares and the democratization of air travel, combined with a refusal to punish bad behavior.

The way I see it, there are three possibilities here.

After getting about two thirds of the way through the game, I hit a wall where I couldn’t progress any further. The story just kinda... stopped.

Sandler has some gems - Billy Madison, Waterboy, Happy Gilmore - and his dramatic work - Reign Over Me, Uncut Gems - is also pretty damn good.

I made the same decision about Indiana when they primaried Richard Lugar.

Fun fact: the concept of pulling one’s self up by one’s own bootstraps was intended as satire, as it’s physically impossible to do so.

The current composition of SCOTUS makes the potential floor and ceiling of this decision terrifying.

Well, depending on how far back you want to go, Jews have laid claim to what we now call Israel for about five thousand years, which predates Christianity by about three thousand years and Islam by about four thousand years. After the Jews there were a bunch of various cultures, then came the Romans, the Christians,…

As an American Jew, I’m honestly sick to death of Israel’s shit. Israel has a right to exist. Palestinians have a right to self-government. Everyone has a right to live in peace.

Gosh, it’s almost as if “cancel culture” is actually “we keep saying racist, sexist, stupid, and generally unacceptable things and we’re mad the marketplace of ideas keeps calling us out on it”.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

Oh yeah. OG Mass Effect is 14 years old. Procedural terrain generation back then was janky as fuck.

It’s worth noting that Chinese culture dates back thousands of years and largely predates “The West” as we understand it today. Being largely insular and nationalistic, the Chinese have antagonized basically everyone in their immediate sphere of influence - Japan, Korea, Russia, etc. - at one point or another.

You could certainly make the argument that police departments, having been given the opportunity to police themselves, have failed and therefore don’t deserve an opportunity to continue doing so, but I would really ask how effective self-policing was ever going to be without the real threat of being policed by an…

Every time I read one of these stories, the consultant in me comes out and I think “If police unions and departments actually stood up and said “There are bad cops and we’re going to make a good faith effort to A) get them off the streets, B) get them off the force, and C) keep them from ending up somewhere else.”…