I'm really happy that RFK Jr. found the cause of autism. Because now we can make more of it, by the grace of god.

Vladimir Nabokov being a pretty bog-standard center-right liberal for his particular era is very funny to me, given how famously transgressive Lolita is.

(Clair obscur spoilers) I have now reached my own conclusion about Clair Obscur's ending. I still think the suggestion that Maelle's ending is "the bad ending" is myopic, but I do think the narrative fails to make the best case for Maelle's position to the player.

i have to admit that i failed to take the temperature of charlie kirk's influence very well while he was alive. it seemed like he was treated as a lesser player in the online grifting circle, far more easy to mock and dismiss. i still think this, but I assumed TPUSA shared his saucelessness.

like once again: i think people's suggestion that clair obscur has a good ending and a bad ending lays too heavily on the tones of the final scenes. but while reading, i also saw a lot of people who felt like the endings were saying "escapism bad" and then obviously took it very personally.

Reading the statement, much of this feels designed to fail. The condition that Palestine will demilitarize seems like something Palestine realistically can not do, nor should it, while Israel exists to threaten it. Are we going to continue to fund and supply Israel as we have? Then it won't work.

funny enough, i'm seeing both praise and criticism root from the assumption that Verso's ending is the intended good one.

(clair obscur spoilers) finished expedition 33. checked the temperature of how folks felt about the endings. i think folks are way too sure that maelle's ending is the ordained "bad one" because of the framing of the final cutscene.

The government of Canada has come down harder on these rappers than on a state committing genocide. Israel still has an embassy in Canada despite Israel not only publicly endorsing violence and hate, but killing tens of thousands of people. Perhaps hundreds of thousands. We don't even know anymore.

i can't relate to people who say shit like, "i find the discourse around this media annoying, so I've soured on engaging with it." brother, they haven't invented a fan base annoying enough to keep me away from something. but also, it just seems like an annoying mindset to have. i know that...

i'm often in the streets, hearing untrue things like "Like A Dragon Gaiden is Mid" or "Yakuza 6 is mid". we should stop saying this blatant misinformation.

i think jimmy kimmell, like most late night show hosts, is unfunny and lacks any real bite or insight. but he should get to burn down like three buildings, i feel. three of his choosing.

Lord of the Rings promotional art by Tom Jung (1978) #70s #LOTR

the only thing i don't care for visually is how the character models look, specifically the faces. the UE5 uncanny facial expressions are here in full force. but despite the blurry ue5 gloss, the environments themselves are pretty enchanting. great sense for composition on display as well.

loving clair obscur so far. thinking the positioning of the game as some sort of "indie game viability statement" is a little silly. just look at it dog, lol. that is a mid sized studio game. it has the unreal vaseline dripping off it. it had access to publisher money.

The US is like if religious psychosis was a country

rikiya shimabukuro.

oh, this statue is going to be fondling a lot of drunk dude's balls.

look at how the audience responds to Quess, an emotionally unstable 13 year old girl who was manipulated into supporting atrocity. but they speak more softly about the man whose responsive for organizing the effort of the atrocity in question. see, quess isn't wearing a mask. but char...

no, but i live for the dawning horror on amuro's face when he is baptized in the understanding that he is about to die because char lost his surrogate boy mom. char does not go out looking cool. it was the one time he had no mask, no sunglasses, no flashy projection of him as supreme leader. juice.

look, i respect if you fuck with the virtual boy. or don't hate it. but i don't accept that the virtual boy is only disliked because of avgn.

Why does everybody on this website need to posture as some zeitgeist guru? so many people like "I KNEW there was a reason I didn't feel Kpop Demon Hunters!" Shut up! You just disliked/weren't interested in something. You are not some culture Lisan-Al-Gaib. Yeesh.

if you are disappointed by this news, please consider listening to MF DOOM as an alternative.

I am genuinely interested in what those thousand words are.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

call me mean, but avgn really feels like the ultimate proof that people have an innate bias towards whatever media came to them in their developing years. james rolfe represents a significant development in online content creation. this i understand completely. but...

char's counterattack.

the seller wrote to sega directly advising him “i’m not the guy you kill, i’m the guy you buy”

he should change his name to Judau Cashta and stack paper in a big way.

especially given that a major conceit of judau and co is "why should i be invested in this conflict? it doesn't concern me, especially where the ramifications have caused my home to suffer greatly."

i also think zz leaves bright noa's willingness to actively recruit children without much interrogation. in 79, they were all youths in a fucked up situation. in zeta, the youths were there in the middle of his defection. but zz was the first time he very clearly sought our child recruits.

long day working at the vats where we grow grinch candidates for christmas. they kill the old one in january as a sort of sin-eater thing so we get started around september to make sure we have a few viable grinches. the habitat where we harvest wild grinch sperm is shrinking due to climate change

Do white guys know they can just jerk each other off and say "no homo" when they cum instead of starting another podcast about Metal Gear Solid?

when he dies, i will remember every single thing about that day. where i found out, who i was with, what i was doing. all of it.

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

weed is so fucking fun man.

My dad when I tell him I’m a believer

"As someone that's previously attempted suicide, they should have let that kid drop"

i like prometheus and covenant, so i will be seated for it. but tbh, what I want for alien more than anything is to stop swimming in the circles of itself. i think the reason no other alien film escapes the shadow of the first movie is self-inflicted tbh.

wizardry 3 off to a compelling start so far. there is something in the soup here that is pulling me in more than both wizardry 1 or 2.

it's always "vote blue no matter who" until...

massive update:

reiterating this.

(dear America. give us the American Northwest. we are not asking. you can keep the rest of it.)

what if, after all this time, silksong got delayed by another year?

This is something you find out when you’re 14

personally, i would have used those early zz episodes to lean into bright noa's tendency to recruit child soldiers and ask, "At what point does military necessity bring us across a bridge too far?" specifically analyzed through Bright.

so i've been reading some defenses of zz gundam's tonal shift. i can appreciate its fans, but I find the arguments I'm being presented pretty unconvincing tbh. the first claim is that the drastic tonal shift was necessary to create contrast, demonstrating how life changed after the horrors of war..