Not only did more moderates win in 2018, but the high profile progressives like Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams and Beto O’Rourke lost. That election night was really weird to watch because when those three went down the sentiment on MSNBC and CNN was the Republicans were going to hold Congress. I remember James Carville…

I’ve been saying for years that Americans don’t have the will to win a trade war with China. We could probably win one in theory, but in practice Americans would never put up with it. Why? Because prices would skyrocket on consumer goods and after a few months people would drop their support for the trade war and vote…

I bought the $1 one month of game pass deal to play Outer Worlds on PC and loved the service so much I ended up buying an Xbox One just for the console version.  So I guess the promo really worked on me.

The one thing I still take solace in right now is this strategy is absolutely destroying Trump’s poll numbers (Down 13 points in Florida in a new Quinnipiac poll). The people really don’t seem to be for this, which gives me some hope.

It wasn’t their left for dead Hail Mary attempt, that was Pillars of Eternity and it brought them back from the dead.  Outer Worlds was their return to bigger games, although not quite AAA level size.  This looks to be their return to those games.

There are approximately 57 million school age children in the USA. If they all got Covid and 99.99% of them survived, that would leave 5,700 that died. That is basically two 9/11's of dead children and these people seem to not even remotely care. That’s with the most optimistic survival rate. The actual death rate for…

What has scared me most about this situation is just how comfortable with fascism many people are. The number of people who have zero problem with a secret police force abducting people as long as they are going after the “right people” is terrifying.

My go to lately for a good overview of a game has been OpenCritic. It’s basically Metacritic but with one big difference: They give a “Critics Recommend” percentage separate from the score average. I find that far more useful. I don’t really care if they gave a game a 7.5 or a 9.3, I just want to know if they recommend…

Not only does it not have a reason to exist, it creates brand confusion. Series X and One X sound too close to each other and will confuse some potential buyers. I’m sure Microsoft doesn’t want any One X’s on the shelves next to Series X’s.  The fact they are continuing One S is interesting.  It could mean the Series…

They have SeaQuest, which I’m curious to see how well holds up.  I remember loving it in middle school, but I just have a feeling that show isn’t going to be what I remember.

To be honest, that’s their plan anyway. They just want the schools open so the working class have a place to dump their kids so they can be forced back to work to power the wealth of the rich. The people screaming the loudest about opening the schools will never send their kids back to those schools.

I remember wondering a decade or so ago what the point of a comments section on a news story was.  It put a random person on the same level as a reporter.  It made no sense to me how someone could just say something with no facts or evidence and it was right there on a news story that had been researched and fact…

I think it’s because Supreme Court Justices know they will be judged by history far more than other government officials and even more than Presidents. Decisions Gorsuch writes will be studied a hundred years from now the way the last hundred years of decisions are still being studied today. And the decisions that…

I’ve never liked the parts of survival horror games where they give you a ton of ammo and have you go full super solider. The hospital part in the Resident Evil 3 remake where you have to shoot dozens of zombies flooding in while protecting Jill or any of the parts in Resident Evil 4 where you are barricaded in a…

My brother pointed out to me that the thing the zombie apocalypse genre got wrong was the lack of all the people screaming the zombies don’t exist.

That’s what he wants really though. He knows he has no power to do this, he just wants the fight with the teachers unions so he can blame them to his base when schools don’t open. This is just forecasting blame two months in advance.

I’m actually genuinely getting worried that a growing number of people today cannot seem to separate fiction from reality. It’s not so much they think these fictional worlds are real, but they seem to not be able to separate their emotions towards fictional characters from the real world. It’s kind of frightening.

I agree and disagree to an extent. This game really affected me to the point that I am still feeling bad about it a week after finishing it. So I definitely have empathy towards the characters and world. At the same time though, I never want to play a game like that again. I hate this feeling and don’t want to…

Honestly, this is why I have repeatedly said Trump is going to be removed from office by the 25th amendment, it will just happen after the election.  He will start doing all the shit you just said, but after a landslide defeat, Republicans will use it as the chance to try and paint themselves as the hero as they…

Honestly, DC could very well become a state with a Democratic Senate. It would require eliminating the filibuster, but if Democrats were willing do do that they could easily pass DC statehood and if they wanted add even more. I’ve always thought 53 states made the most sense with DC and Puerto Rico being added and the…