The News has such a toxic fanbase, they'll post their fics anywhere but Ao3

that goes remarkably hard given it's in a For Dummies book

ok fuck if this guy can do it i'v really got no excuse

Nate Silver confirmed for a vampire because he's clearly never seen his own reflection

that's true, it does describe the liberal approach to governance.

but in terms of dynamic art, "you are only meant to win" is itself an arbitrary limitation for how you can interact with a game. it's the difference between TF2 and Overwatch, or LoL when it released and LoL today.

Even in fighting games, if you win every round, is it still a game? Loosing to a skilled opponent can be just as satisfying as winning. Challenging yourself with personal limitations is just fun. Maybe you loose more, so what? Maybe you loose every time - maybe you do it just to see how long you survive. There's no wrong way to play a video game.

...maybe you do it just to watch a pompous dork fill up column space about how you're playing the game wrong.

The punkest thing is to take a quite place of learning and make it yours. "Oh, libraries are for educated professionals, isn't it it incongruous for you to be here?" Motherfucker, punk is incongruity. Visit the library in your best fit, glide down the shelves like you own 'em, wink at the grandmas watching Infowars on the public access computers while you're checking out a book on rotary engines, Professor Goodall's autobiography, and a Jane Fonda DVD

Man of the Year

Basically, Robin Williams plays charismatic host of the unDaily Shown't -- a presidential candidate agrees to go on his show and he wipes the floor with them. After that, people start pressuring him to run. He's a late entry candidate and is only on the ballot in like 15 states - just enough to get enough points for the Electoral Collage -- everyone expects him to be a spoiler candidate. An expression of disappointment with the establishment. But! On that second Wednesday in November, turns out he won enough states and took the EC victory. The movie looks like it's going to be President Robin Williams antics as he thumbs his nose at congress, business, and the power players of american empire...

...but it turns out he only won because the new computerized polling booths did a computer oopsy and awarded victory to candidates by the alphabetical order of their names rather than by vote totals. The rest of the film is now a shadowy business thriller following the intrepid investigator trying to figure out what happened, dodging attempts on their life from the company that made the booths. It ends with Robin Williams resigning after he learns of the error, with Time magazine giving him the titular title Man of the Year

Apparently it's written by the same guy who wrote Wag the Dog which was a good movie I actually liked.

If you keep up your dumb family feud, your dumb teenagers are gonna drink poison about it. The feud was over nothing, and it took the pointless deaths of their children for the families to recognize it.

you criticize capital yet board game sold out, curious :very-intelligent:

I sort of get why liberals enact half-assed means-tested versions of policies that come from their left flank, but it's a little bit baffling when they do the same thing to the policies they seem to be genuinely in favor of. You'd think they'd have put in some guarantees to sop this take-the-money-and-run looting of the public purse, if only in the name of "China bad".

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE LAST ~~TWO~~ ~~FOUR~~ SIX DECADES OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY BEHIND THE CURTAIN

those are clearly woke raspberries. it's an heirloom varietal