Asimov really nailed it with this quote (which many have probably already seen, but seems appropriate here anyway): “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,…

Yep.

This poor kid’s situation is fucked from all angles. Her dad’s a well-known POS and, if it’s true she’s bi-sexual, I can only imagine how that’s going to go down in that household. Part of me loves what is happening to Mr. Cruz while the logical and realistic part of me only worries for that child and how she has to…

I mean, if “provides gender affirming care to trans children in consultation with a doctor” is sufficient evidence of abuse to take people’s children from them and throw them in jail, Cruz probably deserves the death penalty for this.

This poor child.

I scrolled through this and my main takeaway was that we should all strive to live a life that will be remembered so fondly by so many. 

Yup, FO76 had a ton of issues on launch and it still has a few now, but being a pay-to-win game is not one of them.

Griefing is not a thing in FO76. PvP is entirely opt-in and you can put yourself in Pacifist mode if you don’t want to accidentally trigger it. You can mute voice chat and there’s no text chat. You can fast travel at any time in the open-world and interiors are instanced. Also, the player limit is 24 so you rarely…

Gaming culture needs to learn what punk culture learned in the 80s. If you let in Racists/homophobes/sexists/etc sooner or later you don't babe a gaming culture you have a Racist/homophobic/sexist/ etc culture

The lengths folks will go to make themselves feel special and smug and persecuted for having secret information is so sad.

I’m a big fan of Halo’s story/lore, read a lot of the books, can talk for hours about it. I’m enjoying it so far but do take issue with many of the changes that I think make the world of Halo’s “Silver Timeline” less interesting. SPOILERS AHEAD.

The Asster Chief.

Has Chief banged any aliens yet?  Can’t be Mass Effect if there ain’t alien sexy time

“shooting at the Grammys”

“No Man’s Sky has more or less recouped the lost goodwill from its early years”

Well, when the Warsaw Pact was a thing, they happened to share borders with NATO countries. Currently, nobody was inviting Ukraine to NATO, so your whole point is moot.  It’s not any deeper than Putin is a GI Joe Villain. At all. This is pure aggression on his part. 

US Republicans do.

The entire GQP, apparently.

@Hamster Poop: Geeze, way to be a jerk. ifandbut needs a wakeup call though. If that's being homeless, it sounds like it might have already happened by the time you commented.