Is your sober state of mind really so amazing that it could never be improved upon in any circumstances? You talk about people “altering their mental state” as if the alteration is an end unto itself, and that’s why you don’t understand why anybody would want to do it.

When will our culture finally start listening to the voices of corporate spokespeople making unsubstantiated anonymous allegations and demanding money?

Let’s not forget, Trump once professed not to know who David Duke was, despite having spoken about him at length in the past. There is absolutely precedent for Trump “forgetting” about someone with whom he’d been previously familiar, and the possible explanations are all pretty plausible:

 Sadly, Jeff Sessions was evicted from the Keebler tree community over racist remarks, when he insisted that the Fudge Stripe cookies were miscegenated.

Yeah, mine has Bob Odenkirk, Larry David, and Keanu Reeves.

That part in Baby Driver where he handbrakes it between those two trucks in the alley has got to be the gnarliest action moment of 2017. No matter how many times I see it, I always feel like he’s about to crash at that part.

On a related note, I’ve always thought it weird that smugness is somehow stereotyped as a liberal trait, when there are so many conservative talking heads like Watters who bring nothing to the table except boundless condescension. Every time I see this guy, he’s just making fun of liberals for being liberal without…

He looked pretty happy when he got that taco bowl at Trump Tower that one time.

You’re obviously not from the South. “Bless her heart” is a much stronger condemnation than “Burn in shit.”

Isn’t Ben Carson still lazing about in his hammock over at Housing and Urban Development?

Yes, but instead he received near-unanimous support from 28% of the voters while the majority of the rest of the voters went for the other guy, which is the exact scenario you described. Obviously Democrats will need some percentage of the white vote in order to win; I think the point is that the the Democratic Party…

I mean, that is literally exactly what just happened in Alabama.

If you get caught outside the boundary, you gradually take damage until you get inside it (or die). The rate of damage increases each time the circle shrinks; it’s not a huge deal if you get caught outside the boundary early in the game, but it can be very lethal toward the end of a match.

I love that there are always about ten different ways to accomplish anything in Prey, and that the game never seems to have any preference as to which one you go with. So often, “player choice” in this type of game comes down to a menu of predetermined paths toward completing any particular objective (i.e., “do I do…

I just started a new game on Prey (didn’t finish the first time around and got sidetracked by other releases). On a second playthrough, it’s crazy how early in the game that window-breaking moment comes. It feels in the moment like a subversion of “everything you thought you knew” about this game world, and it’s a…

The blue circle is a really brilliant piece of how-did-no-one-think-of-this-before game design, allowing everyone to make the most of a huge map while still slowly pushing the surviving players toward one another and giving a much-needed sense of structure to the matches. I love the merciless randomness of it—all you…

Has anyone tried out the new desert map on the PUBG test server? I’ve only just barely dabbled in it, but my first impression is that it’s a massive improvement over Erangel (which was already a great map in its own right).

“Is homosexuality right or wrong? It’s not relative. There’s a right and wrong, you just said it”

PUBG is the Super Smash Bros. of competitive shooters. There’s a lot of depth and a lot of room to get very, very good, but it’s still accessible enough that basically anyone can pick it up and have a good time with it. The emphasis on staying alive as long as possible over killing the most opponents means that even…

I don’t think it would be much of a stretch to call the Great Plateau the best tutorial area ever designed, which fits right in with BotW’s general ethos of fixing things that nobody realized were broken. Tutorials have come to be seen as kind of a necessary evil in the post-instruction manual era; there’s a…