Hey Starve, almost all the old GMG site comments are gone now!  How you holding up?  Did you cave and buy a Jezebel membership?  I didn’t.  Yet.

While on principal I’m in favor of stuff going into the public domain eventually, so far every example of people trying to use these big name characters in ways that weren’t already allowed I find myself caring less and less about it as a concept worth advocating for.  By and large the companies that have those…

Saying “other than New Vegas” is sort of like saying “Other than Lebron James, the 2015-2016 Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t very good”.

Vault Dwellers are the main protagonists of the Fallout games.

Right? Like First they came for the mayo drinkers, and I said ‘fuck yeah get those weirdos outta here’ because that is gross.  I say this as someone who thinks mayo is a perfectly good condiment to use liberally, but drinking it straight?  Nothing you say can convince me those people aren’t fucking skin walkers or…

The only conceivable reason for this is that it’s going to be a tracked achievement where the data is collected over time so we can round up the monsters who voluntarily choose to drink mayonnaise.

As someone who understands that dynamic pricing has it’s uses and benefits to society in certain contexts, the thing I couldn’t figure out is why Wendy’s thought this would work.

Interest rates got low, the amount of time people spent gaming increased for a few years before ebbing a bit, and the one thing that public companies are really bad about is that any change in revenue growth becomes a part of the future expectations they sell shareholders on.  So instead of acknowledging that interest…

The dream of 20th century communism died while he was President, and some people mistakenly believe he killed it. Those people are all either MAGA morons or fossilized remnants of the 20th century socialist movement aka Bernie Bros.  Generally speaking best to leave them to their delusions.  

The dream of 20th century communism died while he was President, and some people mistakenly believe he killed it. Those people are all either MAGA morons or fossilized remnants of the 20th century socialist movement aka Bernie Bros.  Generally speaking best to leave them to their delusions.  

Except what I’m talking about is a comparison of how Gemini compares Hitler vs. Elon Musk and Hitler vs. Barack Obama.

It got even dumber than the racial depictions. Over the weekend the craze was “Did [insert public figure] do more harm than Hitler” and there was a stark difference in the politics that evoked responses that were unequivocal and responses that prevaricated about how “harm” is subjective and the comparison is hard.…

Very few games try actively to be “funny games” and even fewer of those are ones built around community enjoyment.

There ain’t nothing subjective about the fact that saying things like punctuality, objectivity and individuality are “white” values is fucking stupid, that’s just a fact.

Okay, but surely we can do the joke creatively. For example:

Yeah no there is normie anti-racist material that is like “color blindness is outdated, be mindful of people’s race and how it matters in every context” that is cool and right and shit and then there is wacky shit like “being on time is a wypipo value” that is just dumb and stupid.  Gemini clearly got itself an…

I don’t want to label Gemini as “woke” because that term has so little meaning. I will say it was clearly programmed by people who align with some of the most wacky folks on race like Tema Okun and Robin DiAngelo.

Yeah I’m not a big Heinlein fan but ultimately my take on the book is that whether it’s “fascist” or not ultimately boils down to how you interpret the Arachnids and also whether or not you know anything about regular old military culture.

But that’s the thing. You can take over Elon’s code by actually trying to steer the wheel, and you have to keep your hands on the wheel for it to run.

To complicate matters further,