I know the main story is about the depressingly baffling incompetence of the cops, but my main takeaway is once again that the war on drugs sure was a huge fucking mistake leading to immeasurable pain, suffering and wasted resources.

I can't really find any fault in the judge's reason personally, especially since I assume this would lead to him being a registered sex offender. It might just be a genius idea from the defence lawyer, but it's not inconceivable - especially if he is indeed a painter.

Genuine question: why has he not been banned? To me he seems to repeatedly violate the rule about arguing in good faith, and - to be honest - his passive aggressive civility feels at times more hostile than straight up attacks.

It was very disappointing, even though it was pretty much as expected. They even let Trump talk over and interrupt the moderators!

I miss the times when he actually put out good games, despite all the hyperbolic over promising. Dungeon Keeper was fun, the first Fable was fun, Black & White 1 was fun.

I can't get away from Sync. Maybe it's about time I do another sweep, but last time I evaluated them I couldn't make anything else look and feel as nice. Lots of customization options too.

I do think this is the only way. It's not 270towin this year, we need a margin.

It was widely reported at the time, but vocabulary analysis put him at about 8th grader level.

Dismissing this as something he wrote when he was 20 and neither believes in nor stands for anymore is the reasonable thing to do. But we all know politics isn't reasonable, and particularly not when it comes to this specific issue. It's deeply emotional, and this will look bad to a lot of voters regardless of how unreasonable it is.

I think picking Shapiro for VP would be risky.

You said it perfectly. While politically unfortunate given how it will be used, it's incredible as a photo for all the reasons you mentioned. Great presence of mind to be able to capture a shot this good in the midst of the chaos unfolding.

Absolutely agreed. I asked one person if they wanted to share a drink at a celebration (that's just social decorum, right?) and have done no flirting before or after that and now that person talks to me like they've been in love with me their whole life.

And I get the idea that you want to let everyone sleep with their favorite NPC regardless of who they're playing as but it just feels weird to me that everyone is so both pansexual and horny. It makes me feel like nobody has any preferences and just falls in love with you because you're the main character.

And in general it also lessens the sense of camaraderie a bit for me when it comes down to sex so much. I wish some companions had other interests and had no desire to get in your pants.

The game will never be what people wanted (and what was - to some extent - promised). It's too flawed and unfinished to be fixable through patches.

I still thoroughly enjoyed it (I'm just about to finish my first playthrough at 100+ hours), but the game has to be approached with the understanding that it's fundamentally flawed. I have no problems with that, Fallout: New Vegas is one of my favourite games so I'm comfortable with the situation and I'm used to fixing problems myself through mods (yes, even on a first playthrough).

The best comparison I can think of is Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (though perhaps that game is now too old to be a relevant example). You can't play it expecting a finished, polished product, but it's still worthwhile and the good parts are really good.