I’m not sure that her constituents are being persuaded by the various smear attempts waged against her though. Republicans and centrist Dems definitely are, but I feel like the vast majority of people who voted for her belong to neither of those categories.

I truly believe that refusing to vaccinate your children should be an actionable CPS report. I mean shit, children can already be removed if parents neglect to get their child medical treatment for serious issues.

So I’m fairly young and not particularly well-traveled, but I never heard anything about religious objections to vaccines until 10 years ago or so. Was that even a thing before the anti-vax movement?

...quit whining about 9/11....

They’re just gonna bribe someone to do prison for them.

I’ve been trying to figure out what “Noho” means for a year now! I thought it was like “no ho’s” (a name i have seen on Instagram), but was delighted to discover it just means North Hollywood. I also live across the country from CA so I have no idea if that is what people actually call North Hollywood.

I’m just waiting for the next one to enter, whose entire platform will be “I’m only going to do good things, and I’m not going to do bad things!”

“There are three rules to survive... Don’t stand out...”

Ugh I know. I’m hoping at least the Jedi Knight mentor is interesting.

I’m betting they’re hitting the no-microtransaction angle pretty hard in response to Jason’s reporting. Still, it’s cool that this was in development as a single player non-service based game even before the recent round of EA news.

The subject matter is horrifying, but the documentary seems fantastic. How will people be able to watch it- is it getting posted on the site?

I’ve been recording my boss fights in Sekiro and re-watching them (bc I’m weird and narcissistic when it comes to games I guess?) and the combat is so satisfying to watch. It looks very natural; very little of it looks game-y. I love it.

I work with a lot of kids involved with the Department of Juvenile Justice, many of whom have had petitions filed against them for truancy. In my experience, this tends to happen in cases where a child is actively refusing to go to school, not in cases where the parents are unable to bring them or when extenuating…

I don’t think that’s fair. If Klobuchar were the Democratic nominee, there would be merit for asserting the left not to “eat our own.” But there hasn’t even been a primary yet. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with distinguishing between the potential nominee we would prefer vs. ones we wouldn’t. I think that’s…

There was a family from Mexico in my Methodist church growing up. I rest my case.

A tiny Appalachia town with two Methodist churches a block apart one of whom sponsors a Boy Scouts troop? That’s literally my hometown. That’s probably literally a lot of towns in that area come to think of it.

Of course they didn’t call him a white nationalist, that’d be anti-Semitic- oh wait, what’s that? Neither of them is a Muslim woman? Well in that case, they would’ve been fine.

...Why did they not just create some new exclusive? This looks so, so dumb. I get that it would take time to make a new one, but c’mon... this looks so dumb.

I’ve been so heartened reading your recent articles about Bioware because I feel like it may spark a serious critical examination of the live-service model over at EA. I also hope it inspires them to change their process to one that doesn’t create/contribute to the emotional distress of its employees.

It is literally no different than installing two different games without a launcher, something literally everyone I know did prior to Steam.