Chuck Sonnenburg of SFDebris once asked a guy who had done research at McMurdo Airbase in Antarctica what the worst part of being in Antarctica in winter time was. According to Chuck, the guy’s response was that it got so cold that he completely lost his testicles. As in, it got so cold, and his scrotum tightened so…

It’s a lot easier for some people to wake up earlier than others...sleep issues are real.

I actually had to cut and paste your definition of white privilege onto to my phone notepad for future conversations - “the absence of racism” - so succinctly stated and yet volumes of accuracy. You are a true wordsmith sir. Thank you for your service 

Would also add a disclaimer: Do all of this to be better but know that you will occasionally fail - can’t shed light on every blind spot. If you do fail pick your ass up and try to be better tomorrow - none of that teary-eyed, victim-flipping, ego stroking shit: own your shit and keep trying to be better. Also: no…

Your concerns are valid, and you should research the organizations to which you’re donating prior to giving. Lifehacker recently did an article discussing giving money to help various organizations in Australia.

Obviously the candidates can’t do this, but I think their supporters really need to start mentioning the sheer unimportance of the Iowa Caucuses and commit to its results not changing their minds when it comes to voting in their own primaries. It’s only trusted as a barometer because we treat it as a barometer.

Debates about video game cosmetics is at least as old as hats (TF2) or other costumes (for me, first exemplified in the Soul Calibur games).

You can’t believe it because you’re privileged enough not to have to deal with the actual issues that the people who are made to wear these sorts of uniforms in real life have to deal with, and you’re also not empathetic enough to understand the perspective of another fellow human being, and how such a thing might…

This is good role playing, because I can absolutely see this note being in some overseer’s Vault-Tec office terminal.

“...test results show that many people have trouble doing math when suddenly being burned alive.”

Hey remember when ubisoft made this excuse about assassin's creed unity a few years ago and it was immediately proven to be bullshit?

They could have just invited Bret Stephens instead of doing all of this work.

As a related complaint - I really wish AAA studios made games where you played as something else than a human! We have a medium where we can be anyone or anything and the AAA developers can hardly think of anything else to make but boring ol’ humans (probably a dude, probably with guns and/or stabby things).

In the days leading up to the 2020 Golden Globe Awards, Ricky Gervais seemed to have learned from the criticism he received for his recent transphobic jokes. But the lesson wasn’t “Try to avoid jokes about subjects you don’t understand.” It was more about imagining future persecution for the sake of avoiding it. In…

Tom Hanks wanting to be come the best man he could; placed all his worst qualities into Chet via an amalgamation of science and supernatural ritual. Chet is now the harbinger of Hank; a malign spiritual energy hellbent on escaping its flesh prison and dominating the world.

Cheer up, Terry. You know what they say;

On the contrary, I was more than pleasantly surprised by a deeper, more personal article than what the title implied.

The thing is, a game or a book or a movie can’t fix anything. The best it can do is hold up a mirror that lets you see what’s wrong in the first place, but the actual fixing....that shit is work, man. Long, exhausting, grueling work.

For those that didn’t know, within moments of the identity of the attacker being revealed in the NYC attack this site was flooded with trolls demanding an apology. I mean do any of these mouth breathers know how a website with writers works? Burnfart was adamant that The Root address this story within moments of it…

I’ll go back and keep reading, but I had to take a break after “Jewish Christmas party.”