The Evil Betty

It was Pratchett I was talking about. There are also examples predating that, Vonnegut, for instance, although I think he managed to not overuse and draw specific attention to the trope as Terry did.

I am sure there are examples extant before that, but my fiction reading is not at all exhaustive.

Simulation theory is a product of the drug war.

If people sat around getting high with friends they would recognize what a stupid thought this warmed over solipsism/brain in a jar thing was and add it to the pile of dumb things they thought of while high.

It's better than the Simpsons fandom I suppose. It's just a bunch of people to saying lines from the show at each other. And complaining about how their favorite annoying throwaway character, Grimey, deserved better.

How is it that so much "comic" fiction is in having a mediocre main character that everybody shits on constantly? This note gets hammered on so much it becomes tiresome. You start to feel sorry for the poor bastard.

The MC can be competent and even likeable and funny things can still happen.

I reserve my right to forget that Tony Blair existed.

Ugh. Why are all these turn of the millennia zombies digging themselves up from their graves of late?

Forgetting past malefactors with the fullness of time is one of the few graces extended to so many of us.

YouTube video by WFLA News Channel 8 Hernando Co. Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump cries while getting life sentence for molesting childre

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mst9...

Another Trump pardon goes back to jail for something they went on to do afterward.

It's interesting to note what kind of crimes they commit when they think they have carte blanche. The exact kind of crimes they say we need capital punishment for.

They have met the enemy and it is them.

Bethsoft FPRPG releases age like wine, in that they are pretty gross until they've aged a good 3-5 years. Unlike wine, they get cheaper as they age.

Why do people think the "80's" was all color coded to a 90's Taco Bell interior decor palate? At least as far as video games goes this seems to be the case.

*Stares in Bethesda*
And fix them, right?

Which is weird because I actually enjoyed the hell out of Dead Island. They could have just said the *words* 'Modern zombie FPRPG' and I would have been all over it (this being right before zombies got played out for good).

Neither Joss Whedon or the studio owns any of those ideas. Change some proper nouns, put in some bad Chinese spoken by non-native speakers, bingo bango. Ya got a show.

Yeah, people will be nostalgic for anything. Even deliberately deceptive business practices that helped almost kill the video game industry.

YouTube video by Pitch Meeting Avatar: Fire and Ash Pitch Meeting

Why is Cameron doing this? I literally do not understand why these movies exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFE0...

Apologies to all the people who work really hard on podcast only to have me put it on while I play a game and only 1/3 listen to it.

I wish there was a gameplay mod for classic Doom like Brutal Doom only less heavy handed and aimless and broad in scope (and also not coded by a racist).

It adds a few gameplay improvements and a shit ton of gameplay embellishments that add nothing and take from the authenticity of the experience.

I think that people are better at games than they think they are, and the main culprit is nobody ever really uploads footage of things not going well.

I often wind up eating stuff like that because I keep stuff that needs prep to eat in my house to prevent myself from snacking. So I'll wind up eating a roma tomato and having a salad/burger that is much worse for the lack of one.

I hate smooth brained media takes that become popular and widely repeated because it's controversial (and for no other reason).

No, I don't think that Michael Bluth was the worst person in Arrested Development. Because I actually watched the show with my brain in. Jar Jar is just an annoying idiot.

I am not interested in seeing a trailer that is nothing to do with the game at all. It's like a steak what looks good, but once you get it out of the packaging it is all green on the bottom.

I don't want hype, I want the actual product.

It's crazy how we call promotional materials released by the companies that make the product "leaks".

Oh no, this well cut and produced video that shows our product in a good light got out. Damn you, leakers!

Seriously? That is really stupid.

Those "leaks" have ALWAYS been intentional. People get really excited to see something 'they aren't supposed to', even if the bastards "leaked" it themselves.

Who else would? Why the hell would an unhappy employee make and cut a trailer? How does this hurt them?

AI George Washington?

That's the fucking guy from Coach, or possibly James Taylor.

*Good movies only very rarely come out although the quantity of yearly output for movies stays essentially the same.

That is what talking about things in absolutes gets you. Hyperbole. It's a bad argument not worth countering or acknowledging.

Still waiting for the idiot that will try to 'correct' the fact that pilot and copilot sit behind one another and not side by side like it has any bearing on the central message.

Them: All of this is just a distraction.

Also them: Ermagerd the Steelers aren't doing so hot.

Take it with someone with chronic stomach trouble, that stuff begins to add up. That feeling is your stomach lining being destroyed.

"BRinG BaCK FiReFlY!"

Whedon killed Wash and Book in a bratty and terminally flaccid nerd rage, man. Bring back WHAT exactly?

Nobody wants the show without Wash and Book, and nobody wants another property directed by Whedon. What the hell are you actually talking about?

People bring their arguments from twitter here and that fucking sucks. You wanna know what's not relevant to *us*?

That fucking flaming shitpile of nazi propaganda for dipshits you can't quit for some goddamn reason.

LEAVE IT THERE.