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It has tons of nifty little details that make it feel like I'm discovering a proper science fiction story rather than just playong a space-skinned shooter.
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It found me! Such a delightfully robotic stompy feel. It's a crime that flashlights with normal and bright settings didn't become industry standard (although the connection with car headlights contributes to the feeling of being a machine).
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"30 guys?! Reed Richards built a bigger cut-away lair with just TWO guys and HIS WIFE and it had a SUB-ORBITAL POGO PLANE ROCKET LAUNCH PAD!"
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A mere gentleman does not tell. A king is far more discrete.
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Friends are Friends Forever
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Some people get a machine to play video games for them, and I've also heard of people who have a machine that washes dishes!
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Yeah, I really low-balled my estimate. That's awesome.
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Even when Trump's rallies were at their hugest, they were just a tiny fraction of the country. The No Kings rallies are big, but even 3 million people turning out would be less than 1% of the country.
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Idaho voted something like 2/3 for Trump, but the other third is still a lot of people and big crowds of us came out to say NO to the wannabe king.
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Dudes rock includes Chinese dudes.
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In my defense, I wasn't sure whether I was remembering the lyrics to "White and Nerdy" instead.
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This is the stuff: "I put on 40 pounds of tactical gear and tackled a 55-year-old partially disabled day laborer! I prevented him from doing some drywall work and feeding his family, for you, sir!"
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Sorry, I guess you got a hundred people bugging you with that same question.
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Give it a chance. Looks like a fresh take on the classic Walking Lighthouse With a Bird On Its Head genre.
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That is some wild, bold design. Reminds me of some of the best stuff ACE Team has done.
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Does "sounds like sweetbread" mean creatures who make sounds that resemble the word 'sweetbread' or creatures whose name resembles the sounds that sweetbreads make?
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You definitely introduced them.
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APRIL — 2025
NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF CORNBREAD
ONLY THOMAS OFFERS ANOTHER OPTION
TOAST R NOW CAKES
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A dress for when you want a subtle way to convey to other guests that the groom reminds you of Kurt Vonnegut's asshole.
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I loved the episode you guys did about how religious decline and political polarization have made the struggles of modern life so much more complicated. It was so focused, concrete, and specific.
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I feel like you should have warned...Elon? JD Vance? Somebody.
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Do historians use the phrase "blood libel" to mean "the falsely-alleged practice of eating babies" rather than "the practice of slandering Jewish people"?
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A bad history that is being ignored when people try to use that phrase to defend Israel from accusations of war crimes.
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I'm so sorry; what I was trying to say was that Jews were really libeled, not that the lies in the blood libel were true. And that the accusations afainst Israel currently called blood libels are quite different in content and might not be lies.
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"Blood libel" is a real thing in the sense that the libel really happened in the Middle Ages and was a specific and very different thing than what Israel apologists are currently calling a "blood libel."
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Is this just a wishful thought or referencing a movie that did it right?
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This debate is evidence that God is real and loves Peterson enough to hold him accountable for his sins and errors.
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It's almost cheating to lead with a screenshot of Outer Wilds. Who's gonna resist clicking on that and checking you out?
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Don't spell as you're taught: boycott.
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In theory, maybe. In practice, the claim that "everything gets reduced to identity" is accepting the facist framing. You're ignoring the line between (frequently unjustified) academic whining about that for the last 20 years and Trump's demonization of DEI today.
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I was telling you that most of the time when people respond to a politician bullying a college student for wearing a scarf and having purple hair with "but really, why is identity so important anyways" they are carrying water for fascists. Is that the company you want to keep?
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"Here's how to pretend to be a man if you're worried you might not be one." — a fourteen-year-old talking to twelve-tear-olds.
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No, it's not about tone, it's about a category of arguments that are so typically made in bad faith that it's not reasonable to expect people to give you the benefit of the doubt when you make them. Context matters.
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Trigger warning studies typically code "went ahead with subject warned about" as an indication the warning was useless/unneeded, when the point is to give people more control over exposure to traumatic subjects, not that warnings are only for some % of people who categorically can't handle it.
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Most such "studies" don't distinguish between "This contains X, and here's how you can control when/where/if you want to deal with that" and "Buckle, up! Here comes some X whether you're ready or not."
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What I should have said is that the points you're making might be valid, but the rhetoric you're using has already been poisoned by people who just want to dismiss any and all attempts to call out exclusion and scapegoating. Not your fault, but probably not the company you intend to keep.
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It's not lazy or bad faith, it's an observation about how your "just asking questions" stance actually plays out. People are scapegoated for their identity and when they try to fight back, some supposedly neutral dude comes along and scolds them, ignoring the history and context.
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"Questioning Identity Politics" means blaming the targets of scapegoating for anything they do that differs from whatever "norm" fascists are pretending this week to have always existed. "Identity Politics" is just calling bullshit on the scapegoating.
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No. A child was bullied by a politician and your ridiculous response is claiming the child caused this by dying their hair purple rather than reactionaries pouncing on any pretext they can find for scapegoating minorities. You can't win that game telling the target to "Forsake identity politics!"
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You don't know anything about this person's substantive ethics or actions. You're dismissing them because they have purple hair. If they had blonde hair you'd dismiss them because they were wearing the wrong earrings or something. We've realized that's a suckers game and we're not playing it.
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See, the things you are complaining about are so stupid that there's no point in anyone trying to please you so why should they try? You're going to call them cringe no matter what they do.
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I think what happened is that black people, women, and other excluded groups realized 1) many white dudes aren't gonna accept you no matter how much common ground you share, and 2) people deserve
equality and respect EVEN IF they wanna dye their hair purple.
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White People: WHITES ONLY
Black People: Um, maybe black people are also human beings?
White People: WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE IDENTITY POLITICS?
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It's a great attempt to take a ridiculous superhero concept and tell more-plausible-than-usual stories about how people in the real world would deal with it. Fun genre adventure but mixed with a higher ratio of mundane character stuff. (And black-and-white like Al'Rashad.) I think you'd like it.
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Was this inspired by Paul Chadwick's Concrete comic?
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The infernal geometry of his non-euclidean collar will render you insane!!!
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"Flying" —I saw the trailer on my big 16k screen and you could see the wires.
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I don't know anybody better who can take the entire band (including the vocals) from a song, distill it into one guitar, and make it sound so natural and musical. The dude has such groove and flow.