There isn’t a political divide in this country, it’s a moral one. “Both-sidesism” is bad medicine stemming from a misdiagnosis

The crowd she’s supposed to appeal to will never, ever budge. But that’s really tough for the “if we stay in the middle, we’ll appeal to the maximum number of people!” shotcallers to accept and adapt to (especially because it’s definitely just cheaper to replace them with people who do get it)

This is about establishing a precedent in defending the brand, not reimbursing customers (who didn’t pay Epic anyway, they paid the festival). If a company is aware of infringement and don’t make efforts to stop it, the eventual one they do want to stop can point to their previous inaction as tacit permission and…

In an era before the internet, a person who genuinely had that train of thought might see where their attitude is alienating people, and if they want to connect with other people they’d have to change that attitude and learn some empathy, or get comfortable being isolated. But in this era, those dudes are able to form…

But if they’d have delayed it for any longer, it wouldn’t have come out in the same month as Apex Legends so...

She makes more money with the Goop scams, and if Disney really is moving on from RDJr it makes sense to mothball his supporting cast instead of trying to spin them off, especially if you don’t want to have your press junket hijacked by a weird stray comment about modern medicine or whatever

CNN is Fox News for middle aged white people who think Trump sucks, but they both draw their audience from the same pool of middle aged white people who enjoy having the news refracted by a conservative lens 

I hadn’t seen the text of the article until now, but am I reading paragraph #5 correctly? 

Alcohol has historically been an inexpensive and accessible way to get high frequently. Marijuana is cheaper and just barely less accessible and acceptable than alcohol in 2019, if you look at it that way it’s consistent with my point

“It’s the most amazing thing that the Olympic Games are the only type of mega project to always exceed their budget,” he said.

All the “what a quirky little generation” thinkpieces for the past decade or so (they live at home! they aren’t starting families! they don’t save any money! they don’t buy stuff!) seem to deliberately miss that all the descriptions of Millennials and now Gen Z are the same stuff people have always said about poor…

It’s the NFL, they’ve managed to smother an entire field of neuroscience, Kaepernick is just a guy. Beyond that, he’s a guy who has sacrificed more for his principles than the rest of us may ever have and he puts more of what he does have into the community than 99% of the rest of us schmucks ever will. He deserves the…

Everything about the release (no marketing, literally the last day of EA’s financial quarter, releasing it a few weeks before a game they have been spending a lot of money on, etc) said “cut your losses” so this is a really cool story

I honestly just find the card-based combat and exploration systems to be uniquely obtuse for a game made after the mid-90s. Theoretically both could be really deep and rewarding, but I stumbled my way through the early game until the first “Time to Get Serious” boss and hit the wall. I’ve quit games because I got…

Marketing departments are like the drummer in a band or the kicker on a football team, they’ve got to be there but they’re only going to get noticed when they’re the best in the business or when they fuck up and take everyone else with them

That would be completely uncivil! Look, just because the constitution says Congress creates budgets and the president approves them, and the president has decided to create his own budget through an action that means a partisan panel of appointed judges get to decide if it’s legal or not, and the actions being taken…

I don’t know if I believe the ratio is 1:1; there was one kid not smiling and about 40 others giving Nazi salutes in that Baraboo photo, and I sincerely doubt he’s coming back after college

Wisconsin has always seemed very Lovecraftian to me. Not so much in the cosmic horror way than the “holy shit I did not realize the depths of the racism being openly discussed and treated as fact” way

I said I was going to try to do that with the Kingdom Hearts series, but Chain of Memories turned into a chore almost immediately and I haven’t been able to push through it or admit that I should just skip it and check out Kingdom Hearts 2

Casting doubt on a story like this is not something I’m too comfortable with, but I live in Chicago and if you’re walking around the loop at 2am on a Monday night in January looking for anyone it might take you a while, much less hunting for a specific type of victim. Even then most people will either be walking as…