See, I think the kindest reading I could give to those gangster thug lyrics would be that they're completely meaningless, since so much of the rest of the song is just random bullshit anyway. A deliberate attempt to woo "soul sisters" by claiming to be "thug" is record-scratch-stop-the-party uncomfortable, but if he…

The powers that be are interested in adapting your game into a major live action film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. How do you convince them that that's a terrible idea, and that this project is a game to its core?

Never mind then, you get it.

Sure, says the guy who's probably never experienced the sleep-deprived marathon-induced transcendental revelation that all societal precepts of right and wrong are just different flavors of pretzel bite.

Love that he still can't help dancing to King of Glory.
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Creak, slam… shit.

Well, I'm inclined to think that the groundbreaking pop music of the "fucking Beatles" probably exists somewhere between contemporary "intellectualism" and painful stupidity. But what do I know, I'm probably the biggest dumb dumb in Dummytown.

Man, I remember you, Brian. I was really concerned about you a couple years back—I used a bugmenot pseudonym and critiqued a short you made for the Parameter thing. I was pretty stressed out about speaking up there; I really hoped that you'd keep growing and find your voice, but I was worried about piling on when it…

You, my friend, are really going to town on a subject that you don't seem to know much about.

Sure, I can see how we're coming to it from different contexts. And again, I'm not at all opposed to this or any other traditionally male franchise being gender-diversified. I just raise an eyebrow at making gender a focal point with the stated goal of not making gender a focal point.

Wouldn't it be cooler if they didn't though? Or at least more in the spirit of what they purport to be going for?

Completely true. Risking a bit of nuance though, I think there is some gimmickry in announcing it in the way they did: we don't know a thing about the plot or the cast, but we *do* know that the ghost-busters are female. The fact that the creative team is *leading* with gender is part in parcel with treating…

I WANT YOU TO DEFEND THE SPIDER-WOMAN'S ASS, GOAT MAN!

That's not remotely the point though! I'm not offended Hoat, I'm worried about you! Fuck whatever sexism shit, I'm bothered that you're posterizing your own intellectual capacity down into a collection of running jokes! Do care, dammit! Have an opinion, commit to it, and don't bury it in self-defeating references!…

"To be honest, I was serious. This is a non-issue and I just used MRA language to make my post more amusing."

So you actually did want to defend this cover, but you couched your argument in jokey memetics in order to obtain the distance of irony without going near the point of it. For amusement.

Yay!

I know just about nothing about art history, but I wonder if a lower amount of "work" in art parallels a lower amount of "work" done by people in general as society advances. As technology propagates and labor perpetually requires less traditional effort, maybe the human experience is, for better and worse, less and…

Aw man, this reminds me how much I miss the E3 Murder Report.

Hmm. Well, with respect, I think our culture demands binary moral clarity because that's easy. And I think what you're doing right now—resetting the conversation to "rape bad" over and over, is an easy, low-risk way to be right about this issue. You are right, of course, and everyone who thinks rape is bad is right,…