The only people who don’t think that 16 year olds are children, are 16 year olds and people who want to fuck 16 year olds.

Yea. All fandoms are inherently toxic, and rewarding them for bad behavior or giving into their angry demands is always the wrong choice because it only fuels that toxicity.

The imbalance of power between a fully grown adult and a teenager is way bigger than the typical imbalances that most relationships have to navigate. Setting aside legality, it would be ethically dubious for me a 37 year old to cruise for 18 year olds. The capital and experiential difference are one thing, but where…

as the article states he was 27 at that time so maybe get that right first.

Being a “successful professional who lives a very normal life from all accounts” is not proof that a person wasn’t victimized or traumatized by a deeply inappropriate relationship which they were too young to consent to.

Not where I was expecting you to go. A 39 year old fucking a 16 year old is not just “strange”. It’s not something you just say “well, that’s not for me, but you do you”. It is a predator finding and grooming a child to raise as his sex pet.

I was speed skimming and must have missed “Captain Zack”, because I got halfway through the article before I realized “Lauth” was a dude. I literally had a moment where I thought, “creepers like this are what pushes young women out of these scenes”, which I guess reveals some of my bias.

That’s why you don’t look at individual polls. You look at averages and trends. Bernie’s average is down 4 points from November and Warren is up 10, to the point that they are now in a statistical tie.

You mean the person who is struggling to get back even half of his supporters from the last time he lost?

I’d rather have a centrist or conservative Demoract in a red or purple state’s senate seat than any flavor of Republican.

I think it has to be Warren. There is too much animosity for Bernie from 2016. A lot of Democrats still blame him for 2016, and a lot of them don’t like that he refuses to officially join the party. He has no room for his vote share to grow, as even if Warren dropped out I think half her voters would go to Harris.

It’s good to have both of them in the debates in this early season, so that it isn’t just one person standing there like some Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul wingnut that can be easily dismissed as unserious or fringe.

It’ll never get me to watch, but Trump isn’t entirely wrong that there are changes going on at Fox News.

The Southern District of New York is where all the action is. That office appears to have the fate of the nation on its back.

Interesting, so I guess the Warren administration will be running the Census then.

With every princess before Jasmine being white (and only three non-white Disney Princesses in total), there is no way to diversify these casts without these kinds of changes. Give her a red lacefront and a green tail, she’ll read as Ariel to most people.

Black people lived, fought and died in Europe all the way back in Roman times. Even before Moorish rule in Spain, the Romans were bringing North African, Arab and Jewish citizens, traders and slaves to Europe.

I love medieval aesthetics, but the deus vult motherfuckers that flock to these games are maybe the most toxic corner of the gaming community.

Theoretically. But that tends to break down a lot, if only because games tend to devolve into “kill everything that moves,” which limits where the narrative can take you. And then when you sacrifice something or someone so you can have +4 attack power. Games can still be powerful, but frequently, they aren’t.

So what do we call them? Using existing taxonomy, a “Metroidvania” hits several categories. 2D Platforming-Adventure is the most succinct but it doesn’t cover every element that defines them. That’s also a lot more sylables, and to someone not familiar with games it may still not make any sense or be any more inviting.…