I love it when a person that lives in Canada who comments primarily on Kotaku comes to the AV Club to cherrypick data points and ignore other contributing factors about American economic history so we get to hear his libertarian nonsense. Yaaaaaay

So you attribute stagflation to a single factor in the ‘70s? Astronomical oil prices didn’t factor in? A shift in the focus of the US economy from manufacturing to information/services? The end of massive DoD expenditures for the Viet Nam war?

Of course you are a trickle down crank and budget hawk. The European experience with austerity should put to lie this line of defunct economic reasoning once and for all.

Furthermore, Kennedy seeing the insanity of the 90% tax rate took steps to cut it across the board in 1963

You’re isolating the tax rates from other cultural circumstances (with a slight nod to other factors that may have contributed to the growth after the ‘64 cut). During the ‘50s, under Eisenhower, when the upper rate was around 90%, the country went through an economic boom that saw massive gov’t expenditure on job…

I love it when people confidently lie.

It’s time to put aside the notion that you “raise revenue to fund spending”. Modern monetary theory provides the essential insight that the spending comes first: the tax is extracted post-hoc in order to rebalance the money supply. Essentially, governments have an infinite supply of money because currency is a…

There was an Iron Man movie tie-in game, a Captain America 1 movie tie-in game (neither much to brag about), and since then, what? Some Lego games and a whole lot of nothing.

The cap game was actually very solid. Unspectacular, but the gameplay was fun, the difficulty was challenging without being unfair, and they managed to do more with Zemo than the MCU ever would.

The comparison is apples to oranges, though, as until somewhat recently Marvel didn’t have a dedicated gaming arm. Marvel Games is still relatively young and their first big swing at a AAA console title, Insomniac’s Spider-Man, is the best Spider-Man game ever made.

The Iron-Man, Captain America, and Thor games (yep,…

a black woman.

Smurf, but female: Smurfette.

This season looks good on paper, as confirmed by this article, but the execution was poor in too many episodes. Hopefully the next season will be the same as the last, but good.

usual assholes trying to spin the show getting some of the biggest ratings in its history as somehow meaning it’s dying

Ah Who fans have been doing this before Star Wars was a glint in Lucas’s eye, don’t worry about it.

Chibnall’s been solid as a showrunner, but hopelessly average as a writer. None of his episodes were season standouts, and that should have been easy to do. this season was a collection of solidly fine, mostly unmemorable episodes.

Exploiting human risk/reward, and social vulnerabilities to get them hooked. It’s basically the mouse paying to run on the ‘premium’ wheel. Both wheels are fun and addictive, the only difference being the normal one was methodically sabotaged to work inadequately.

Most probably feel okay about it. People spend money on things they want, be it a cheeseburger, latte, beers at a bar, mobile games, or even just the most recent blockbuster video game. I think the pity is misplaced.

Oh, the game publishers definitely won’t be forgetting it.

Both of which course corrected rather quickly and went on to become fine games that are still played today and still are getting fixed and updated. 76 however will always be a useless turd.