Whenever I hear that someone I disagreed with has died, the first thing I do is talk shit about the recently deceased. That way everybody knows what a good kind empathetic person I am.

Damn, just heard Dan Simmons passed away. Another great gone. "The Terror" is one of my favourite books ever. It captivated me by showing how much horror and high strangeness you could put into a story while seemingly constrained by known historical facts that have be included. One of a kind indeed.

May all the aggression you face in life be micro.

Sad to hear about the passing of Rob Grant. There really was nothing like Red Dwarf back in the day. Nobody else was mixing high concept science-fiction with low-brow comedy that had great characters and could still be poignant. I'd throw on a good curry and just laugh myself stupid.

The worst part of farming is always having to deal with all the fucking ninjas.

There have been so many Dracula sequels and not one of them named The Vampire Strikes Back. 😒

"Bye, Miles, have fun being the only Spider-Man while I ignore the responsibilities that came with my powers. Just like the last time I did that and Uncle Ben got killed. Yeah, he'd be so proud of me right now. If he was alive. Which he's not. Because of the last time I did this."

I'm officially disappointed in Spider-Mens 2. Especially at how the row over wokeness eclipsed the bigger, more serious problems with the writing and design. It's easily the worst written game I've seen in years. A great game can make up for bad writing, but it's not that either.

Gaming pet peeve: "Clown car" enemy design. When you have to fight a stupidly large amount of enemies that wouldn't logically fit in the location or wouldn't be stupidly suicidal enough to only attack you in waves. Fake difficulty where the only challenge is in numbers not skill.

Being an X-Files fan from before they stopped filming in Canada.

😠✋ Actual Tourettes 😊👉 Israel Tourettes

It'll never not amaze me that the most mature treatment of Tourettes I've ever seen in media came from South Park, of all places. Which clearly a lot of "very empathetic people" currently showing their true colours have never seen because they're too nice to watch something so offensive and bigoted.

What Tourettes is like: Hayfever, but every single time you sneeze people think you're a freak, a pervert, a bigot, or some kind of degenerate and the 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 humiliation for your loved ones is all your fault and there's nothing you can do to stop it. What social media thinks Tourettes is like:

Handwavey bullshit that's complete nonsense is still better writing than shit just being that way because that's how the writer wants it and doesn't bother to even attempt to justify it. Yeah, looking at YOU, Hideo Kojima.

Characters no longer react like characters. They react like the audience. They react *for* the audience. Memes and tropes replaced characterization. Instead of a unique and idiosyncratic reaction, we get "Well, that just happened," and "I'm not crying, you're crying!" Fast food writing.

We really shouldn't listen to people who believe immutable characteristics of birth determine morality.

I've said before there's a big problem with modern characters. Back in the day, characters were kinda who you wanted to be like. You know, cool like Han Solo or wise like Jean-Luc Picard. But now characters seem to be more like how people present themselves on social media. And feel just as fake.

Been playing Spider-Mens 2 and a little annoyed at how genuine problems with the writing seems to have gotten completely ignored when everybody was yelling about whether it's "woke." (Kinda. It's not *that* bad, but it would be a lie to say there's not stuff that's eye-rolling.)

Another week's rawdogging depression done. Can't wait to find out what I'll be stupid and useless for next week.

I really should just go back to bed.

Men are monsters, until they do something monstrous. Then they're heroes or victims, or both.

I hate it when a female tells me yaaag.

Calling it "Like A Dragon."

BREAKING: Footage emerges of Charles and the rest of the British royal family turning Andrew over to the police.

The Concords will continue until morale improves.

Come on, America. You really gonna let your dad prove he's better than you at something? What, you're just gonna sit there and accept there's no getting rid of the pedophiles like you're reddit or something?

the US is getting a lot of mileage out of that squidward looking out the window meme these days

A rich person going to jail is like this century's Berlin Wall.

Sorry, but no countries that have knowingly reelected anyone they know for certain is a rapist and pedophile and still not arrested them get to join in the celebrations.

Hey, America, those snooty tea-swilling limeys just proved they're better at arresting rich high-profile pedos than you. You gonna just sit there and take that?

And so say all of us.

Your mummy ain't around to protect you and your brother just Michael Corleone'd the doors on your nonce ass.

If former Prince Andrew was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison forever. If Donald Trump was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison forever. That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

Now that's just rubbing salt into the wound isn't it?

All this 'nobody is above the law' schtick would be a lot more believable if we weren't all absolutely fucking astonished at the fact that they've finally arrested the cunt.

The overabundance of poor quality, sanctimoniously preachy, zero imagination slop makes perfect sense once you realize there are people who believe the purpose of fiction is to "fix" reality.

You ever notice when it's a Muslim holiday, we all have to observe, even the atheists. But when it's a Jewish or Christian holiday, it's Happy Secular Non-denominational Unspecific Celebration.

How to socialism: 1: Promise lazy, entitled, greedy people free stuff if they put you in power. 2: Make up a bunch of reasons why it's all someone else's fault your magical bullshit didn't work. 3: Laugh at the stupid gullible poors from your mansion. 4: Kill anyone who notices.

I run a pet grooming business. For a small fee, I have politicians and celebrities try to lure your dachshund into bed.

Also, a female serial killer was arrested in December and the reason you didn't hear about it was because it doesn't fit the bad gender versus good gender bullshit. www.courttv.com/news/rebecca...

By the way, another woman just carried out a mass shooting and the reason you didn't hear about it was because they were both transgender AND conservative. That's two narratives not supported for the price of one, so reality gets another deleted scene. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

"Don't you want to be on the right side of history?" I don't fucking care because I'm not some vainglorious twat with delusions that they're going to be in the history books.

Sad to hear of Robert Duvall's passing. He was so great in so many things that everybody has a different favourite performance of his. Mine was his character in Days of Thunder, for essentially playing pretty much my dad. Especially when I was young and knew nothing about cars.

"Ireland has a racism problem." "Yeah, it's shameful." "And a sexism problem." "We have far to go as a society." "And anti-LGBT bigotry." "We need to be better, alright." "And antisemitism." "NO WE DON'T! THAT'S A LIE! ISRAEL IS PAYING YOU TO LIIIIEEEEE!"

Just a thought: How about we nix Presidents’ Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?

Movies: "You're okay. The bullet just went right through you." People who know anything about guns:

"A homeless man sold me this signed confession by the Mothman that he shot JFK. I'm taking it down to handwriting analysis to see if the signatures match." "...If I leave now I can just make happy hour."

-And Chomsky’s reasons for hanging with Epstein?