25-30% of the population always want the dumbest, most asinine and harmful things. Part of the point and function of democracy is the other 75% routinely tell them to shut the fuck up. If you need everyone to agree to do the obviously smart thing to be happy, you're gonna have a bad time.

I have never seen a manager look more upset and angry about a game he's winning than Bob Melvin right now

how can you not be romantic about baseball

lol why am I surprised that Trump's stupid immigration bribery golden ticket isn't even a good idea to buy? You can only stay less than 3/4ths of the year, over $18.5k a day in cost to be here, and you still have to pay taxes on any US income. What moron would possibly do this?

Handing the reins of capitalism to the class of people most abstractly affected by the actual economy - shareholders - has mutated modern capitalist thought beyond all recognition. Adam Smith would want modern "capitalists" whipped - the whole point was to liberate land and capital from rulers.

man I wonder why anarchists never accomplish anything ever before being crushed by the first right-wing dictator that comes along

I'm choosing to believe that Wilson was only at 1 strike but swinging and not only throwing your bat but throwing it into the home team camera well counts as 2 strikes

Blake Snell pitching like he thinks he needs to go all 9 tonight Because he probably does

Firing Kimmel is impotent and scary. We win by playing those facts against each other

Fuck "Arsenal of Democracy", that's way too much paperwork, we're gonna go with "Weekend Gun Show in an Exurb Convention Center of Democracy"

I do wonder how many of these so-called political pundits actually have any taste or aptitude for politics, versus just kibitzing about policy. Not even the hard graft of implementing, just making them up. The DC equivalent of the guy in every LA coffee shop that calls themselves a screenwriter.

At the core, this is a failure to understand that the efforts to marginalize and crush the current wave of fascist, anti-reality, anti-equality talk moderation. The right's position is extermination and exile; we are trying hard to avoid the way these issues are historically settled, which is war.

Imagine a political left that knows when to ignore someone intentionally trolling them for rich dipshit clout rather than giving them the oxygen they need to survive

Increasingly convinced "Silksong too spicy" discourse is mostly powered by people who didn't play or barely played Hollow Knight and just like the cute bug art and assumed the cute game from 2018 couldn't be hard and now Silksong is out they're finding out how hard Team Cherry likes their games

Just what everyone wants on a Monday - shots! In this case, COVID and flu. I'm trying the diphenhydramine recommendation from @rahaeli.bsky.social as well.

And done. True Ending achieved, Silksong has finally let me go. Game of the Year candidate, 10/10, so on and so forth. If you like this kind of game, you probably already have it, and if you think you might find it interesting, don't be afraid to buy it. It asks a lot but gives so much in return.

On the final-final boss, and I will say that unlike Radiance, this doesn't immediately give me the feeling of RNG bullshit. Is it because I'm less bad, or because it's better designed, who can tell, but I am enjoying this one more.

I appreciate that I have now seen two different streamers say "I'm not playing Silksong on stream". Playing games in front of a sizable audience is daunting no matter what, but so much of the enjoyment is the wonder of exploration and discovery at your own pace, and streaming can get in the way.

If you're struggling with Silksong, here is a tip: It is more important to avoid getting hit than it is to hit. Every single enemy attack follows a pattern that can be identified and dodged. Patience is the key. Think of it more as a platformer than an action game and you'll have a much better time

Now I'm far enough into the game to feel comfortable checking out speedruns of Silksong, and seeing them just skip "mandatory" bosses is hilarious. The Any% No Major Glitches run is already under 1 hr. 10 min., and it's got a lot more to go.

Silksong "bad" ending (knowing that Team Cherry prefers to say that all endings are still valid endings) get Now to figure out...what the fuck the next step is

I mean the last...80 years or so of many American perspectives on war and violence *can* be easily summarized by "we should be able to do unspeakable violence without having to deal with the consequences"

Yooo let's fucking go With all the mass transit expansion in LA right now this will be huge

Honestly, the fact that he missed low and hit the neck instead of the head with a scoped .30-06 at 200 yards is kinda shit

well yay www.uclahealth.org/news/article...

"Once the rockets are up who cares where it comes down? / That's not my department, says Werner von Braun" but for op-eds and posting just about sums up modern elite punditry and press

The Touch Grass Program

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

Could I be making progress in the main story in Silksong? Maybe. But I *want* to be fucking around and filling out the edges of the map.

Cuomo is more well done than a steak cooked on the surface of Venus, the fork is stuck in so deep it's shattered the plate on the other side

The British right yearns to be a sick, broke old fart shouting "ENGLAND" at youths and brown people through the windows of a broken down suburban house from the 70s

The one consistent theme of these people is my marked surprise at them failing to do even the bare minimum I expected to happen to actually perpetuate the kind of violence - stochastic or otherwise - they fantasize about happening. Some stereotypes about Internet tough guys are true.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

This is not the Reichstag fire shut the fuck up jesus

You're not gonna do yourself any favors looking for video of what happened in Utah. It's not gonna tell you anything that the news won't and exposing yourself to that shit ain't worth it.

If you're looking for an example of why using military force to stop protests or domestic discontent, say, as authorized by a insurrection act, is not a "I win" button as people hyperventilate over

Defining "worst Democrat president ever" down to "worst modern Democrat president" basically means just Biden, Obama and Clinton and given that the 2000 election can rent a car now Clinton is pushing it - basically making this analysis worthless

lol Bass with her finger on the pulse as always

My long-held opinion is that if the press are going to treat Democrats with a kind of hostile sneering contempt the best move for Democrats is to treat them as such, because the first move to get them to stop is puncture the shield of the press being by-default "neutral"

Thinking about "Silksong too hard" discourse - HK let you get away with "spam attack and hope" a long time, SS doesn't. They made stuff hit a lot harder but we're much faster/more lethal, parrying actually works and everything is telegraphed much more so you have to pay attention or it slaps you.

I'll give some variance for artistic talent (or lack thereof) but that's not an adult woman

The whole of the Roberts Court decisions gonna be a forest of these on Westlaw before too long

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗔𝗥𝗗: What the fuck did you just fucking say / lie about me / us, you little bitch / pussy? I'll have you know I graduated / ascended top / last of my class / family in the Navy Seals / publicist, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda / Enron

Cogwork Dancers is a top 5 boss I've ever fought. So tight mechanically, so deadly but well telegraphed. Just enough room to recover (until there isn't), but you make two mistakes in a row that's it for the run. Music, artwork, theme, all perfect. You feel sad to beat it in more ways than one.

Well, after 3 days, I have finished Act 1 of Silksong The first one was more Metroidvania than Dark Souls? This one is more Dark Souls than Metroidvania. The art/music/gameplay is unrivaled, and nothing has been unfair so far, but knowing how to read attack patterns is essential from the start.

Bell Beast is the goodest girl and I will hear no arguments

"I'm playing sloppy, time to go to bed and beat this in 30 minutes in the morning" remains undefeated Hollow Knight true ending down, time for Silksong

Hollow Knight news: Radiance is fucking cheap as hell