I’ve played literally hundreds of hours of Mass Effect and No Man’s Sky. Never played Elite Dangerous, and can safely say that Outer Worlds (which I assume you meant) wouldn’t appeal to me because Obsidian games make me as viscerally angry as Bethesda games seem to do to so many others.

The response to Starfield has been baffling to me. I have no idea what people wanted this game to actually be, because what it actually is is easily the best game Bethesda has made since Morrowind, and easily the best game released so far this decade.

Exactly. Anyone trying to argue that Feinstein’s legacy will be anything other than the absolutely disgraceful clownshow of her final term is delusional. And it’s not just the last year with her blatant incapacity - the way she condescended to those young climate protesters a few years ago was unforgivable.

Yes it fucking is. Are you delusional, or are you 90, or both?

The 80s ended 34 years ago. There are far too many people in politics who seem to think that it was yesterday. It wasn’t. Anyone whose great political accomplishments occurred in the 80s should have been retired for over a decade by now.

It’s both. She hung on longer than any decent person would have (why the fuck would anyone over 80 run for any public office other than for ego?), but the last few years she’s been very clearly puppeteered by her staff. Anyone who took part in that should be blacklisted from Democratic politics, but of course they’ll…

If you think that her historical legacy is going to be anything other than her absolutely disastrous final term, I don’t know what to tell you. And if you think that the lesson of her career should be anything other than “get the fuck out while you still have your body and brain in working order”, you’re a complete…

The core Republican value is evil. Given the choice between two courses of action, they always - literally always - push for the option that harms the most people and helps the fewest. I’m not sure I’ve seen a counterfactual on this in my lifetime.

I’ve always thought that actually just asking questions is admirable (it’s literally how you learn), but you have to a) ask the question directly to people who are capable of answering, and b) be willing to listen to, understand, and accept the answers. No one who uses the phrase “I’m just asking questions” seems to…

Your classmate sounds like one of those people who doesn’t believe that Trump could really be the shockingly immoral, functionally illiterate, serial sexual predator he’s been bragging about being for decades.

New Gareth Edwards film? Looking forward to reading for years about how great it is from people who inexplicably fail to notice the bizarre pacing and complete absence of characterization and plot, but love the pretty splosions.

I can’t believe that a celebrity whose entire persona consists of being a sexual predator would do such a thing. I guess you never can tell.

It’s like that old saying - I think it goes, “one bad apple has absolutely no effect whatsoever on the whole barrel.”

I mean, that’s the whole issue with the system. Guys like this do things like this because they know that their colleagues and everyone else in the system would rather let him get away with it than face even a shred of scrutiny themselves. That goes from the lowest ranking cops to the highest level prosecutors. The…

That movie is so good and so underappreciated.

They were a massively successful musical act in the late 00s who appealed mainly to teen and pre-teen girls. Their success was largely manufactured by Disney, but they did actually do something, unlike the Kardashians.

Without getting into any details of the show (if you don’t want to watch you don’t need to), “the North remembers” is an oft-repeated phrase, almost a mantra, used to signify that the people (of “the North”) are still loyal to their king (or queen) after they have been betrayed or killed or dethroned or otherwise…

lead singer Jay Kay, who glides through the video, dancing on a series of imperceptible moving sidewalks.

Correct. Even if you don’t buy that it was gender-based violence (I’m sure it was), this guy has “weak little coward” written all over him. He will piss himself in prison.

Not diverged, passed. The show ran out of book material to adapt after season 5. They had already diverged in many ways by the end of that season, but everything from seasons 6 through 8 covers events Martin hasn’t written yet (and probably never will). We know that the show runners had inside knowledge of some stuff…