Collins is either the easiest mark in the Senate or just needed the tiniest fig leaf of cover to argue that the Trump SCOTUS nominees weren’t anti-abortion zealots hand-picked by an anti-abortion judicial cult for the sole purpose of rolling back a half-century of judicial precedent including Roe, Casey, etc.

Just a friendly reminder that Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem both had passionate, involved fanbases practically frothing at the mouth for improvements to the base games and DLC before EA let them both bleed out on the pavement.

There is a huge difference between female bodybuilders and female athletes. Nobody would look at your average WNBA player, female Olympic athlete, or really any other profession that involves the functional use of muscle and go “Well, they’re not strong or athletic.” They are, but they also look very different than…

I’ll never understand the absurdities that wealthy men go through to get off.

Acceptance of abortion has remained relatively constant since Roe v Wade - 30% want to ban it entirely, another 40% want it to be completely legal at any time, and the other 30% wants it to be either slightly more permissive or slightly less permissive than we currently have, or just don’t know.

I’ve always felt like 40k had this big untapped opportunity for gaming that just never quite materialized. Then I started seeing the rumblings from the 40k community as a fan of an adjacent franchise (Battletech), and I realized that it’s not because it’s being ignored, it’s because GW are a bunch of assholes.

Correlation. Is. Not. Causation.

This is peak pearl-clutching.

Always has been. He’s Scalia without the intellectual fig leaf.

It starts with Roe and Casey. They’ll return abortion to the states and create a patchwork quilt of laws that will result in chaos and a body count of desperate women who will be forced to turn to back-alley providers. The next time they have power, they’ll push for national abortion bans, or bans at 6 weeks or 15…

The majority position on abortion is complicated, because it includes people that want it more restrictive but still legal. The question is, where does that point flip their support? That’s something we’re collectively not sure of yet.

I think it’s a little different.

There are two ways to get people to vote: inspire them, or scare them.

I agree that there were the bones of a great game in Anthem, anchored by the flight mechanic. It brought a third dimension to a genre that has lived on a 2d plane for as long as I can remember.

I was fortunate to come from a family with the resources to pay for my college education, and graduated without any debt.

You know, once upon a time I felt like Sarah Palin was the bottom of the barrel, and how spectacularly she flamed out at the national level would convince the GOP that they were headed down a path of electoral irrelevance if they kept putting stupid people in positions of power.

The benefit of Hunters in GM wasn’t just pure invisibility - it was also the damage resistance buff from Heart of the Pack, with it’s high uptime.

I admittedly haven’t played with the new Void changes much yet, but the 1 viable build Hunters had in true endgame content - Grandmaster Nightfalls - was Omnioculus, which was predicated on making you and your team invisible, granting increased damage and damage resistance, and having a high uptime. As I understand…

None of this is at all surprising. They’re trying to build Gilead, complete with a “Lol, women are things.” mindset.

Politicians talk a lot about “third rail issues” - specific issues that are so toxic to try and address that even suggesting doing so will get them kicked out of office. Good examples are basically anything to do with Social Security or Medicare.