Yes, he is. Because like most white dudes who inherited a bunch of money thanks to growing up in a society explicitly designed to divide a diverse population along superficial lines, rigidly stratify it, and systematically exploit the thus-subjugated underclasses to enrich the elites that developed that oppressive…

Oh look. Yet more evidence that Elon Musk is an utter douche. Wonderful.

Can I argue that the sky is not, in fact, blue, instead? It would be MUCH easier.

You think Steve Jobs wasn’t also a polarizing figure?

I guess? But the whole point of those “n-figure” benchmarks is that each one is an order of magnitude larger than the last. 7-figures has a range of $9 million, 8-figures has a range of $90 million, etc. It’s just how numbers work.

Well, that ties back into unexamined assumptions on the part of both the artists and the audience: pale skin is pretty strongly associated with beauty in Japanese culture - and that is a characteristic of that culture unrelated to colonialism, as it predates the era of European expansion by several centuries. There is…

I dunno, I kind of see it as being considerate.

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I’ve done all 3 and can see reasons to justify them all. I can also cite pretty strong reasons why each of them either isn’t what it seems as presented by Starchild or shouldn’t really be possible at all. Depending on my mood, my preferred answer changes (though in truth, I still kind of hate the false simplicity of…

Wow, that’s a deep dive into the past.

Don’t bet on it. The money is mostly for bragging rights. It’s not about cash for him - and avoiding prison would be a necessary component, but also insufficient. He needs to feel like people think he’s important and accomplished, and being forced out of office, even with bribery, doesn’t lend itself to spinning…

I’ve actually gotten more use out of the Steam Link I got last year in this mode than to play games on my TV (a lot of the games I’d like to play this way are optimized for play on a PC monitor, with uncomfortably small text on a TV) - I’ve used it to play quite a bit of downloaded movies and TV that aren’t encoded in…

Both are (or, at least have been), separately. Omega is apparently a big deal in Hungary:

I’m mostly disappointed that someone wasted a title like “Strangers In a Strange Land” on a cheapo porn game. They could’ve at least made something that references Heinlein. Could’ve even been inspired by some of his stories while still making a sex game - Heinlein had quite a lot of it in his books (especially Strange…

I gotta say, as slimy as the IOC and FIFA can be, they’re not even in the running for “most corrupt, evil fuckers on the planet”

Those are honestly pretty divorced from real violence - that’s like saying running a marathon is related to combat because the first one was run to get word out about an invasion.

Well, the subject matter of an awful lot of video games does involves violence of one form or another, and for a lot of them, it’s lethal violence - that’s particularly true of the kinds of games that work well as “esport” titles - competitive games tend to be violent, even if it’s cartoonish violence. For every Flower…

I don’t categorically hate Microsoft products, and I’m definitely not a Sony superfan, but when this gen of consoles were new, I wasn’t going to be able to afford more than 1 of them, and Microsoft was saying and doing ALL the wrong things. They walked back a lot of the worst decisions before release, but not all of…

...once this is all over—assuming we’re not all nuked out of existence—they’ll have their money and their good looks...

I am comfortable wishing ill upon them. I have no intent to enact it personally, but if I were the praying sort, I would pray for them to develop embarrassing and uncomfortable health problems. Massive boils on their noses, say, or severe and debilitating hemorrhoids.