That IS a better metaphor, because having to use a three-key cipher based on musical notes to find pieces at an exhibition is exactly the kind of performance art bullshit artists would do, and it would defeat the purpose if they handed you a normal pamphlet alongside the coded one. The artist has a specific experience…

It’s more like demanding an art museum allow you to switch out the paintings for others if you don’t like them.

Considering they got their start making Halo: Combat Evolved machinima, their group name referencing a British synonym for ‘bitch’ isn’t all that shocking for the time.

Surely that would only compel him to flip on her, no? Is it even still theft then?

Exactly, thank you. As a trained policeman, I can tell you it’s almost impossible to keep cool when a woman is standing several feet away holding up a phone. Last Thanksgiving I joined in for a family photo and there were multiple casualties, it’s almost as bad a trigger as seeing a Black person.

“Good enough to assist” nothing, no human can beat a halfway decent engine at it’s max level. It’s impossible. Can’t happen.

Well, it’s not a lot of money, right? I mean I would do just about anything for nearly thirty thousand dollars, but the stakes in the simultaneous chess and poker scandals  are way, way, way bigger. Obviously competitive fishing is not nearly the draw as chess or poker, it’s niche, but “getting greedy” makes more…

Once you’ve accepted life in prison the social contract deteriorates even further from what landed you there. Assuming you’re in a state where execution isn’t on the table for whatever you have in mind, well, what else can they do? Sentence you to another life in prison? Obviously, I’m not trying to say that fear of…

Weird seeing it argued here that it was totally cool and awesome for someone to be murdered in cold blood after they were already convicted. I mean, I’M fine with that, but it seems like the response would be very different if the races were flipped, especially given the probable collusion of the prison guards. 

It’s obviously, OBVIOUSLY not the case here and I am not saying that it is, but have there been any known cases of Tourette’s where one of the tics is a slur? Because that would really fucking suck.

It’s hard to quantify exactly how much of a power imbalance is too much unless it’s obvious. Is it as bad if he were only ten years older? What if he were only the star of a famous sitcom that ended in 2016 rather than the frontman of a band with several hits that hasn’t been the hot new thing since 2014? Her being a t…

You’re acting like the government and trans people are equally affected by jokes portraying them as . Yes, they punch everyone, but most of the people they’re punching are their own size and one definitely isn’t. And you know what? Rockstar isn’t even counter culture anymore. GTA V is literally the second best selling…

I know one should assume good faith, but’s impossible for me to truly believe you don’t understand why people are making a lot more noise over this particular case than the sixty million other kid’s movies that come out every single day featuring heterosexual kissing.

They’re about the same accounting for inflation.

Well, sure, but what possible reason would he have for doing it if not to plaster it all over the internet? I guess maybe for insurance, but it seems like the primary reason was clicks.

The article said it was a “promotional” meal. It’s not that Travis Scott went down to McDonalds and was paid twenty million dollars for a great new combo idea. It created buzz.

Just because the fictional character genuinely did things in a nice way in-universe doesn’t mean it doesn’t soften people up to the idea when looking back on historical cases. No one genuinely thinks that Willy Wonka, who does not exist, literally enslaved the Oompa-Loompas, but it’s still a bad look if it whitewashes…

Listen, these street racers deserve to have the book thrown at them, but the charge of manslaughter exists for a reason. The entire concept behind having varying types of crime with concrete definitions completely falls apart if we start going by how mad the case makes us.

N...no? Transformers are downright fragile in comparison. Watch the scene from the animated movie where Megatron kills a bunch of the earlier cast, one shot in the shoulder of all places makes fire explode from their eyes and mouth. Even discounting stuff like Endless Waltz’s mobile suits needing to be tossed into the…

Racist fans are going to be racist towards the one Black man in the sport if he so much as doesn’t look someone in the eye when he congratulates them on a win. People were angry with Hamilton for reasons that had nothing to do with race except for racist fans taking it to a racist place like they always will.