Fallout 4 taught me that when AAA devs say “this took us 7 years to develop” it really means 7 months fueled by cocaine and complicated forms of white slavery
i don’t really sleep for long enough to dream but the rare occasions i do it’s some ominous parable about what will happen if i don’t fulfill the prophecy
feel like this discourse is largely between people who think it’s about whether it’s like morally wrong to watch games rather than play them (no) and people who think it’s about whether watching games is a means of artistically engaging with them (also no) talking past each other
when the online rightwinger starts talking about how classical heroes were manly and stoic and paragons of virtue you have to realise theyre not actually talking about achilles or odysseus but about master chief from halo 2
This is mostly correct and I'd go further and say that the phantom of "the pedophile" as a concept bearing little relation to the actual ways in which pedophiles abuse and operate has long since broken containment as a tool of parents rights and into the realm of internet safety
@PhilipDBunn "Nuking Iran" is an absurd framing meant to rhetorically protect the president. He could carry out his threat to systematically bomb Iran's infrastructure (and ensure Iran's response on the GCC and Israel), and his supporters will say: "See, he didn't NUKE Iran, you panican!"