New adventures await. This one is over. I’d like to thank all my readers who joined me on this journey. We’ll meet again, if not in this life, then the next.

Uh......guys?

I just learned that Splinter is officially dead a few minutes ago.

I’m normally one for over-long prose, but I just want to say this, and then I shall shuffle off to gaze at my navel in other fields:

Some of the writers around here are among the sharpest, most incisive folks I’ve had the privilege of reading. There’s…

So, let’s collect ideas for where to go now that splinter is dead. I tend to like crooksandliars, but the commentariot sucks and the site as a whole is stuffed with more ads than the GMG sites.

And here we are.  It’s been fun.  Sorry this happened.

So is this the last story Splinter will ever publish? If so, kinda fitting.

That argument—that a lot of men do “vile, abusive things,” so we’ll necessarily have to find room for them all again—is a little staggering in its laziness, its indifference towards victims, the crudeness of its calculations: There are too many of them not to grant some form of redemption.

So now we’re shitting on people for reaching the right conclusion but not being super aware of world events in their 20's. Just wanna be clear on this. That’s our new bar. You suck if you didn’t know about stuff in your 20's that you should have. 

The main melody starts with the same basic notes, but sounds similar because it also shares a similar rhythm and is in the same key. I know, it sounds like I’m saying, “They’re totally different, except for all the ways they’re the same!” but being in the same key has a huge effect on people’s ability to hear…

Yeah, there’s similarities but I don’t think it’s similar enough. Lots of differences.

Nah. It’s a museum after him. The entire Office needs to be redefined now. 

Now, now, some of the evangelicals are starting to sound some alarms.

In fairness, it’s not just Trump. We also do this after every mass shooting, every black man killed by a cop, every exposure of corporate malfeasance, etc etc ad infinitum.

The best possible outcome would be if this led to Blizzard getting banned in China despite their capitulation. Now that would be absolutely glorious.

So if you systematically turn characters from every Blizzard game into symbols of Hong Kong Democracy would China have to start banning Blizzard properties similar to how they handled Winnie the Pooh?

Political revolution is exactly what we need to fight the full throated corruption and graft of the republicans and the “soft” corruption of the politicians that only care about the money of lobbyists.

Destiny 2 is a game Bungie wants you playing every day, no matter what it takes. The game isn’t challenging by any stretch. It’s the “dad mmo,” so the content is designed to take a long time, and is either time gated so that you have to keep coming back to continue, or limited time so you have to hurry up and get The…

There can be no ethical consumption under Capitalism

I’m just shocked that a conservative meme successfully used fundamental concepts of actual humor, however poorly. Usually they’re clumsy, ham-handed, and unfunny in every possible way. This one was groan-worthy, but at least it’s recognizable as humor. Conceptually, anyway.

And lying about her past.