The Netflix performance had just started to lose me somewhere around there and that raccoon stuff just brought me back. Absolutely out of left field.

I can see not liking it, but "corny" isn't the word I'd expect to use. It's pretty mean-spirited.

Impact sprinklers are cool. I didn't know they were called that either, but I always loved the way they sound. When I was a kid we would always jump over the oscillating sprinklers, and it would be like a "force field" or a "laser wall" in whatever story we were making up.

One of my favorite Let's Players actually did do a Windows 95 stream. Well. It was a stream of a game that only played acceptably in an older Windows VM, but he ended up messing with a lot of old Windows apps and games, too. It was strangely enthralling.

*squints to see your video through the overlays and annotations promoting other videos you did like "Hearthstone #4732" and "Tetris #92401"*

Why would she want evil socialist books from the gub'mint anyway? Hasn't the Lord blessed her with the money necessary to buy those books?

I generally agree with everything you say, and I don't have particularly high hopes for the show. I don't even have HBO so I'm unlikely to watch it. I just think people keep on making objections to the show's premise that the writers are clearly aware of and intend to avoid. How successfully they will steer clear of…

First of all, I sincerely apologize if I came across as dismissing your experiences. That wasn't my intention. There's been a lot of right-wing trolls here recently talking shit about feminists, leftists, TUMBLR SJWs, etc. and I've gotten pretty defensive.

Those opinions are both bullshit, and neither of them are held by the majority of radical feminists.

You know not every radical feminist is a lesbian separatist, right?

One of the show's writers said this:

Malcolm Spellman: I think that [using the word] “winning” creates the wrong image. [In the world of Confederate], it was a standstill. They maintain their position, the North maintains theirs. What people need to recognize is, and it makes me really want to get into the show: The shit is alive and real today. I think…

This doesn't make sense to me. Black people are oppressed today. It's a frequent observation that the Union won the war but the abolitionists lost the peace. The end of chattel slavery was not the end of the horrific oppression of black people in America, and the fact that black people have not thrown off their white…

The poem she wrote about the Boston bomber?

I complained about that somewhere too. Maybe io9? Writers seem to be copying that off each other and that's not okay damn it.

What is Amber Heard like in real life?

Know thyself. Biblically, also.

Unfortunately I think a lot of what makes MGS2 enthrallingly weird is a combination of the game going over budget (and being padded out by weird shit) and the somewhat adversarial nature of the translation. Hardcore Gaming 101 interviewed MGS2's English translator and she came across as both kind of an odd duck…

Who Dat Ninja?

Perfect. If you want to adapt that for MGS4, just throw "war" and "battlefield" and "PMC" in there a bunch.