...white supremacy is related to racism, my friend. If they’re not precisely the same thing, the Venn diagram almost totally overlaps. And yes, a show that opens in the first episode with a racist white guy killing a black cop and a white cop, who is revealed to have ties to the KKK, being hanged from a tree is most…

Also, Andrew Jackson, a famously violent and racist president, was known as King Mob. As others have pointed out, it’s likely a reference to the original comic, but given the racial themes in the story, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Jackson connection was intentional as well.

Yep, as Mr. Universe said, you can’t stop the signal. Even tying up loose ends there was always a chance that Veidt’s plan would be revealed, so maybe he felt that it would be better to let the president know and give him a chance to either assist in continuing the cover-up or doing something to cement the peace…

This relates to a conversation I’m having with someone in another thread. Yeah, Veidt’s video in the TV show doesn’t precisely jibe with the comic version, though I think that introducing one hubris-fueled mistake is perfectly reasonable, even for the comic character. But this is an adaptation. It makes some changes.…

I don’t understand the idea that this is a VR game being something that people would be upset about. It’s like a boardgamer being upset that some video game isn’t also being adapted for the tabletop. VR is still in the early days, and lots of people don’t have VR setups yet. And that’s going to mean that some folks…

Milk is good, and I like to have it with cereal, or just to drink it, particularly chocolate milk. But as others have said, it’s an important ingredient in lots of delicious things.

Have they announced the monetization scheme that they’ll have to massively alter a few weeks after release after lots of bad press and player outrage?

It’s the Brack Show, starring him, he’s Brack! It’s the Brack Show, and he’s got lots of good guests!

Punching down is just bullying. 

On any flight in which they turn off the cabin lights, reclining is acceptable. If the lights are on, no reclining. And “someone else is doing it, so it’s fine for me.” is just as ridiculous in that circumstance as it is in most areas of life. Other people being shitty to you is not an excuse to be shitty to other…

Glad that Portland got a mention, even if their season didn’t go as well. And boy, is this sure some good sports content that isn’t about anything else. After reading this my only concern is who scored the most points and have no desire to tell any business people to get fucked.

The idea of trying to buy a new car when I’m still paying off the loan on the current car just doesn’t compute to me. I put a lot of research into the purchase before buying to make sure that the car will fit my needs, and then I just have to live with whatever issues I have with the car until it’s paid off. It feels…

Remember when Kanye put out a song called “Jesus Walks” and all the liberals hated it because it mentioned God? Oh, right. Everyone loved it because it was a great song.

To me this feels right at the line where it would be mean, with maybe a toe over. It’s certainly not terrible, but I don’t love it.

I hadn’t heard about this game, but it sounds like it’s right up my alley. And the correct answer to the issue in the first part of the article is side with the workers. Always. 

I don’t really know why or have a good reason, but I really don’t like TBWL as a character. Something about him just hits my annoyance meter hard.

And I’ve clicked on articles that had autoplaying ads that had icons to pause them, but the icons were fake and just links to take you to the advertiser’s page. The actual pause button didn’t become available until the unskippable ad finished. Truly a shitshow of corporate mismanagement. 

I understand that you’re struggling with this, so this is meant as a very gentle criticism, but it feels kind of like a cop out to say that as a journalist you cover WoW and Overwatch, therefore you can’t cut them out of your life completely, therefore you have an excuse to continue to play them in the face of…

What horseshit. Screw Blizzard. 

I’m constantly amazed at people who seem to think that the world of today is some un-navigable minefield. Don’t be a jerk, and if you act like a jerk without realizing it or have acted like a jerk in the past, apologize, mean it, and try to move on in a positive direction. The exception, and it’s one that is…