I am prepared to walk back my concern that Rockstar may have lost the ability to create biting cultural critique that lands in a real world that increasingly resembles parody.
Releasing the physical copy of GTA 6 as an NFT is a fantastic bit.
If you’re a Midwestern suburbanite who never wonders about why their suburb is where it is and has no curiosity at all about that nearby post industrial city your uncles are afraid of then that’s on you.
The hantavirus cruise ship conspiracy theories just started hitting my timeline, and the problem is that the conspiracy theorists are addressing people’s questions better than the authorities right now.
I feel like people in Wisconsin should know that their state tourism board is targeting 5 minute YouTube ads at me (a FIB) to buy property and move there.
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
Three months of construction permits on the West Side (west Humboldt, Garfield Park, North Lawndale) and south lakefront (Bronzeville, Washington Park, Woodlawn)--every square icon is a vacant lot filled in
your great-great grandparents rocked up to cities that looked like this to work 14-hour shifts in dangerous factories and thought “oh thank fuck we don’t have to farm anymore”
It is genuinely so interesting to see the feelings of national level politics posters vs locals re: kat.
Anyway, periodic reminder to shut the fuck up about Chicago if you're not from Chicago.