I would love to believe this but the NOI is part of what I call the “hotep” movement and that shit is spreading fast. A few of my peers are really into this crap and they believe insane things. Things like black women were not meant to have menstrual cycles (only white women, who are inferior to them, are supposed to…

It is the poor people that want to buy into this garbage that is the issue, it is always the issue with gimmicks like these. The amount of money rich people will spend on these products is a fraction of a fraction of a rounding error in their yearly budget. Low-income earners are the ones product like this hurts.

Speaking as someone who used to dispatch:

Hazard files (unless they use a vastly different system/terminology than we did) are files that display information when you punch in a person’s information or an address that could be officer safety issues. What it means is that, at some point, an officer responding to a call…

It’s dumb, but it gets me every time.

There is a good book called “Debt: the first 5,000 Years” that explores the development of capitalism & money at a historical level. It is a dense but good read that investigates how we got to where we are today.

A lot of gaming spaces in my city (many of which are tied to charity and fundraising events) have had to ban Smash at their events because a bunch of rotten, angry neckbeards always show up, harass the organizers for not playing with the right rules or supplying the right kind of TV, and shit all over the little kids…

To be clear, this issue is complicated

I’m a goddamn ESL teacher and a college professor currently working with students in Puerto Rico, where I live, to help them graduate on time when the government is trying to literally shut down every public university on the island.

I was coming here to say something similar. Games are hardly the only place you see this, nor were they the first. The entire software industry is going this way.

Thank you for articulating!! I’m not sure how to respond to “women are freaking weird” but I’m glad someone got the point I was trying to make.

The KPop entertainment school does sound like the old school MoTown academy. And OMG that song above sounds like something 5th direction Harmony would do.

Is it possible... just possible that cis-women might have a thing or two to learn from their trans-sisters?

It would be comical if not for the chilling effect on women who want to play male-dominated hobbies.

(Another dude here), first 1/2 of story is pretty much par for the course “Smurfette” situation which happens with pretty much every male dominated field/hobby. Everyone (straight dude) gets so excited that there is a girl/woman who finally shares their interest, and the mass-awkward hitting on begins.

...You are genuinely insane.

Everyone I knew stopped playing and there’s 0 point in playing solo. Guess it was a fun ride while it lasted.

Speaking as a Mexican-American, we need better representations of excellence. A drag queen is not that.

I knew I’d fully agree with this list when I spot Junko.

Dragon Maid is bad and Kobayashi isn’t a mom.

Junko Kaname, 100%. For being a mom who knows when to give her daughter space, and when to slap the shit out of her.