“if your model of events assumes a fourteen-year-old nerd is secretly a master criminal capable of manipulating all of his teachers, law enforcement first responders, and the national media, rather than that a fourteen-year-old-nerd is just really bad at reading social cues, your model of events is garbage.”

a malicious conspiracy to make texans look racist

I see you don’t mention children. The day I get 5 uninterrupted hours to plan and cook a week’s worth of meals is the day they move out.

Don’t sweat the difficulties, Albert. If we know one thing about gamers, it’s that they’re not particularly hypersensitive to any sort of direct or even indirect criticism about their hobby.

You could always start with the very piece on which you’re commenting.

“add no value” - it’s a single player game about getting lost in this detailed sandbox environment. The value is in the depth of the simulated world.

OK, it’s pretty hilarious that you think someone would call for the dissolution of the federal government out of an urge to appear more authoritarian than others. +1

I’m growing more and more uncomfortable with the seemingly increasing progressive notion that people’s backgrounds must be fully delved into and punishment doled out for things they did years and years ago, retroactive, permanent punishment. It strikes me as so anti-liberal.

Hey, it’s the white guy who is more enlightened then all those *other* white guys!

The game dropped the ball with just about every character:

I mean, animals are not capable of “inner lives” as she says it. Chickens brain capacity is nil. Even dogs, as much as I love them are incapable of appreciating art, or building a city. Their family units are more about natural processes and urges than respect or love.

Wait... are you comparing slaughtering animals for food to actual human slavery? You don’t see how that analogy is really, severely fucked up?

No, I simply have a different perspective. I am a special education teacher and spend my days with children who are in the process of realizing that other people are smarter than them.

This really made me roll my eyes — I grew up a couple towns over from Colfax and it is not this ominous, hillbilly backwater that the author is making it out to be. Not everyone is on meth, not everyone is armed and looking to prey on solo female hikers. This isn’t deliverance. I get that that isn’t quite the dramatic…

So basically, you’re against the entire concept of film criticism?

But he doesn’t have the discipline, or the self-awareness: He also wants us to like Ted, to believe in Ted, which is to say, really, to believe in him, Seth MacFarlane, the lovable scamp who doesn’t really mean all those jokes about black cocks.

There is most certainly nuance! There are those who say the entirety of Confederate history should be erased as an embarrassment. I disagree, not least on grounds that if we got rid of all of American history that’s embarrassing our history is going to consist in its entirety of the timespan from the D-Day landings to…

I can tell you what the flag was created to symbolize. Treason and hatred. Of the need for men to die that other men might be kept in chains.

the debate was had. you lost. by a score of roughly Sherman’s March to the Atlantic to nil. your flag commemorates hatred, treason, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of americans in the name of preserving white supremacy. Dylann Roof waved it knowing that you and the entirety of South Carolina stood behind him…

Any real coffee snob knows that you simply toss 2 table spoons of freshly ground roasted coffee beans into your mouth, followed immediately by 6 ounces of 198.2 degree water. Wait precisely 184 seconds, then swallow. Your digestive track will automatically filter out the grinds. Coffee making devices are for…