Yep. Never underestimate the fanboi tendency to totally misunderstand their “most favorite thing evar”. My favorite example: anti-PC “freeze peach” crusaders who fail to notice that Blazing Saddles is obviously and emphatically against bigotry of all kinds.

“But instead of continuing a process of really examining everything more deeply, most especially themselves and how they can live an honest life in society”

You got it. I certainly had that phase. First it was religion is whack, then elections in the US and the government, then the food industry. I read A People’s History by Howard Zinn dammit I knew it all!

Definitely. That seems like the newest, mostly Internet-driven iteration of the phenomenon. I thought about mentioning “the new atheism”, but it doesn’t seem to be driven so exclusively by one particular book, movie, or TV show, and my comment was pretty long already.

See also: South Park, The Matrix, Fight Club, and more examples too numerous to mention.

I think there is a certain personality type of fairly intelligent and perceptive person who goes through a phase in their life lasting maybe a decade, from about age 15 to age 25 or so, in which they realize that many people and many institutions of society are hypocritical and corrupt. But instead of continuing a…

Way to prove his point!

It reminds me of the time I tell white people in comments here that whatever article was not an attack; it’s a call to do better. But if you believe someone telling you to do better is an attack, then I don’t know what to do with you.

It’s all shits and giggles for Alt-Righters until mom gets the legal bills.

What is defensible about what he said? Truly.

I dunno why Era Vulgaris gets put down, I find it to be a solid rocker front to back. And IMHO, has my fave art work from all their releases.

Correct. Dadtaku stories are written for parents to say “oh man yes this is bad i understand this”, not for teenagers to give unsolicited parenting advice.

I’m so mad at OoT, and I’m not even the one suffering from the misfortune of being married to him.

This is funny, because on my Dem Thrones podcast, we actually call them the Bernie-hova Witnesses

Sounds like this is what you want: http://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428

There are two sides to every story and I would like to hear/read less of the blame game that has surfaced and more unbiased reasons for Andromedas failure. I mean, Casey Hudson dealt with such a harsh backlash from ME3 and yet soldiered on to produce ME: Andromeda. Clearly, something was screwy very early on with…

This really sucks. I really enjoyed Andromeda. It’s one of my favorites from this year. But I guess the romance and conversations were my most hated parts of the game (I’m sorry but since ME1 the series has been so fucking badly written, awkward, nerdy, and basically just like really fucking weird and sociopathic that…

I blame the mismanagement, but I also blame the gamers.

I’m so glad they keep working on the game, despite people being rude and downright abusive with their comments. I can understand not liking the game and wanting to see some changes, but there are so many people just using this as a chance to go and straight up attack Bioware.

Damn. Hopefully not RIP. I enjoyed Andromeda quite a bit. Perfect? Far from it. But there was a lot that was done right. I was looking forward to a refined sequel.