Also the bullshit idea that people online aren’t the same activists actually out there marching and protesting. Tweeting is mindlessly easy.

Socialist is only scary for generations who were made to think that socialism == communism, especially in a Soviet sense. Gen X and later see democratic socialism as Western Europe and how well it works for them.

What doesn’t he hate other than a good beard massage?

What’s your favorite movie to watch if it’s on TBS but is already a half hour in?

But its trademark is being used in a product that uses the same mechanic. It’s very plausible that someone coming in and hearing that would think that Chooseco has something to do with Bandersnatch. All you need is for that possibility of confusion.

They’re not suing over the mechanic because, as you said and as I said in my original comment, you can’t copyright it. Bandersnatch is using the name “Choose Your Own Adventure” for the same mechanic., and that trademark infringement over the NAME is what’s happening. Based on both the mechanic and the explicit…

In order to defend your trademark you must go after those that attempt to infringe on it. That Bandersnatch explicitly dropped the phrase during one of its lines (“Bandersnatch is a Choose Your Own Adventure novel”) as well as trying to get the rights before the episode aired is probably enough to show that there was…

Sadly I never got that one. Mine was just “dinosaurs were too big to fit on the Ark.” :( 

To be fair life expectancy was only short due to high infant mortality (up until even the 20th century). Once you got past infancy and childhood, you’re average lifespan was like mid-50s.

“So imagine my surprise when it turned out I was a privileged white racist this whole time? It’s damn near impossible to express even a sympathetic option without some Alpha Progressive pulling a 3 words from a sentence and diagnosing me with all manner of phobias and mental illnesses. I’m a victim blamer, a…

Yeah, I think that’s fair. I’ve seen some pretty out there bad takes (e.g., Right side: War on Christmas and Starbucks cups outrage nonsense. Left side: fusion cuisine as problematic) There’s just a whole lot of throwing baby out with bathwater going on for my taste when people talk about “outrage culture” from a 5000…

They never specify who’s blessing, so I assume it’s my lord and Pokésavior Arceus

Oh bible fundamentalism. Where there’s a contingency of believers who think that there had not been any rain until the Flood pierced a shell and allowed the water above to come down. Like no joke, I was told this on an 8th grade work mission (to Pennsylvania), but luckily I already had stopped believing when I never…

Now I have to make my own by pouring koolaid into a 40, crushing up some caffeine pills, and topping it off with some piss.

I guess that’s a big part of the problem. People talk about “outrage” from a completely different set of definitions and connotations and assume that everyone is speaking about the same thing. No one is ever specific enough or defines their terms before saying something, especially around nebulous and vague words and…

I know for diet advice I go to 4000 year old books that never knew of tomatoes, corn, and dozens of other foods. 

Telling people “hey, don’t call someone a fag. Call people by their own preferred pronoun.” == fascism

You say it’s outrage. I say it’s historically disenfranchised people finally getting the chance to speak without worrying about powerful gatekeepers keeping them quiet. Malcolm X was outraged. Harvey Milk was outraged. Maya Angelou was outraged. James Baldwin was outraged. Everyone who’s ever been oppressed is…

One punched up, the other punched down. Kevin Hart was punching his non-gender conforming child. That’s not comedy. That’s cruelty.

That was a whole lot of words that don’t actually say anything