I think one of my strengths in relationships (and how I landed an absolutely amazing and lovely wife) is I learned straight-forwardness. If I liked a girl, I’d just say “You’re funny and gorgeous, would you like to maybe go on a date sometime?” and “I really enjoy spending time with you, and if you’re interested I’d…

“My “favorites” though are the men 45-50 and over who say they want kids.”

As a 42 year-old man who has not yet had children due to various health issues with my partner and instability in my own life, this one hurt. There are people who *still* want to have children later in life, but were unable to do so when they…

as someone in recovery and having seen the successes and failures of so many people in my recovery meetings, people aren’t textbooks and most of the ideas around addiction are quickly losing merit. especially as we learn how dangerous the purist/disease model and all the “red flag projections” baggage it carries with…

By all accounts (that I’ve read), he was successful in his EP role, especially in helping steer the ship through Trebek’s illness and death. I think this new information disqualifies him from an on-screen role, but that’s as far as I’m willing to go.

It was never aimed at curtailing what kids do in their own homes. In the 90s and 2000s PC Cafes were where 90% of kids got their gaming on in South Korea. Console gaming never took off because of very poor localization. To this day there are an abundance of PC Cafes but back then there was one on every block and the…

This is one of those things that sounds totally ridiculous to me. It feels like a weird line to draw that video game villains, who routinely engage in things like mass murder and genocide (even in non-M-rated games), shouldn’t be able to have a shitty, creepy personality and do shitty, creepy things.

Agreed. Which is why it’s annoying that they treat these specific people with kid gloves. 

Given how consistently this website runs bad faith criticisms and take downs of people accused of a litany of thought crimes, it’s amazing how you pull out the kid gloves when talking about idiots like this.

Thanks for the easy to get through writeup that hit what I wanted to know about. Some reviewers are just too deep into 4X without actually being able to describe it to more casual players so this gives me a better idea of how it works. Certainly seems worth a spin via Game Pass.

I’m stealing this from Twitter and don’t want to accidentally direct anything their way so I’m just copying it:

You’ve heard of “antagonists are allowed to do problematic things” but are you ready for “sometimes art is deliberately designed to make you uncomfortable”

My point isn’t “it was good of them to hide things they knew would be controversial”, but rather “there’s no way for them to know everything that anybody may find controversial and so the idea that something wasn’t stated directly or was understated isn’t unreasonable”.

If I’m allergic to peanuts and I see that a food was produced in a facility that “may process peanuts”, I’m avoiding the food rather than taking my chances that maybe this one wasn’t. If you find evidence that the company 100% of the time produces this product just a few feet away from peanuts and could have…

People calling for the removal of the content are frankly crazy. Not in a mental issue way, just utterly divorced from the reality of what art and media are. I’m all for accessibility, including on the front of content, but it feels like some people suffer from permanent FOMO in that they need to experience every and…

The movie hints that Harvey has a dark side before he turns when he psychologically tortures the mentally ill guy. Joker is more of a catalyst than the cause of his turn. Plus, the ferry scene is a direct refutation of Joker’s philosophy.

Videogames are not an investment.

Money Laundering. Its usually done with art. They now have a valued piece at a certain value. They are being pretty blatant about it.

so, based on my knowledge it can be one of two things:

Get it graded and who knows.

A collectors mind isn’t healthy, they are no different as a hoarder but with more money.

I think two things might be happening.

We’re starting to see video games treated like comics were in the 80's and 90's. Buyers were all hoping to nab the modern day equivalent of Action Comics #1, ignoring that scarcity was a big selling point, and publishers were constantly relaunching series and specials to fuel the…