My favorite example of this is Lovecraft. People are always like “sure he was an insane racist, but it was the 20s, EVERYONE WAS” and it’s like no, even during his own life his friends were all “dude you need to dial it way back bro.”

I won’t deny Popo is a very striking visual design, and keeping his otherworldly appearance while making him less of a horrific Sambo caricature would be one hell of a challenge. I don’t think Blue Popo works very well - the solution is probably to use more detail and unusual features to indicate that no, this is a…

What’s funny is that as time went on, Toriyama started drawing nonwhite, non-asian characters who looked like human beings, but the existing ones didn’t get redraws

“Popo, where are Goku and the others?”
“I’ll tell you where they’re not... Safe.”

If we wanted to have those things, we wouldn’t have privatized rail in the first place

As someone who was an adult in 2006 I can assure you that saying stuff like this was gross back then too.

BUT WHAT ABOUT

The question is, is this car a mockup or did they murder some poor Lotus to make it?

Ah, I was worried this was some kind of anti-vaccine truther protest but I guess the city council are just crooked idiots okay

Not only will stainless steel divert more of the energy of a crash to the people inside, the metal is difficult to work with when it comes to minor fender-benders.

Nah, slapping a dude is a weak move. Fists or GTFO. If you want to hit a dude, knock him on his ass.

This really isn’t new. Doesn’t anybody remember A Scanner Darkly?

Big “as a black man” energy their, super chief. Might want to look to that.

Being shitty to your fans and blaming them for driving you away is just how people retire from social media filmmaking now, I guess. Remember when Lindsay Ellis spent 2 hours yelling at her fans for being mean to her about Raya, when she really just wanted to write books and make subscription videos instead of pissing…

The world waiting on player actions is probably the biggest source of ludonarrative dissonance in modern gaming. If we consider plot events that wait on player actions a part of the story we control, then the “good ending” of Cyberpunk is to NEVER DO THE HOTEL HEIST:

I consider it essential cult horror viewing, right alongside Lair of the White Worm or Lifeforce, or Blackula, to which it obviously owes a great deal.

I hate Elon Musk in the same way you hate stepping in dog feces or finding weevils in your rice, but like... his shareholders are idiots. Stock valuation shouldn’t rise and fall like this because of meetings containing only moderately good news. Actually it’s not even moderately good, for a company that makes only 3…

They should just walk everywhere like Joakim Broden