To add to that: if countries like Russia actually can influence US elections by manipulating platforms like Facebook....what does that say about the influence companies like Facebook have themselves?

I think if you're a 20 year old who wants to fuck a 40 year old that's fine. I think if you're a 40 year old who wants to fuck a 20 year old....well...that's not a crime but....that's kinda gross.

Lol. The boss isn't a "femme fatale". I admit they kinda had mixed messages at the end with the boob scar window but its kind of a big part of her design that she's very deliberately not sexualized for the overwhelming majority of the game. The old and new models are actually both conventionally attractive in terms of their physical structure and Kojima has confirmed that a young Charlotte Rampling was the main inspiration for the Boss in terms of her physical appearance...but she's supposed to look like a war vet...not a victorias secret angel.

Also: I get very "Robin Wright" vibes from the new model...and I dig it.

The credibility and capability of the United States to dictate world policy seems to be fading rapidly.

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Killdozer was the hero we needed, just not the one we deserved. ....or maybe vice versa.

Love y'all as well!!!

The idea that a successful rebellion and coup detat of the empire wouldn't have ended with a massive purge of the imperial officer class and its wealthy collaborators sounds like the most liberal brainwormed shit imaginable to me TBH.

Like ok sure: it makes sense to me that within the new Republic you would probably have influential figures who successfully downplayed their involvement and/or up sold what they could contribute to the new government enough that they were given a pass after renouncing the empire. I also believe and like the idea that many of these individuals publicly renounced the empire but either privately still agreed with it ideologically or straight up didn't have an ideology beyond maintaining raw naked wealth and power.

.... but FFS I simply just do not accept that you would be comfortable saying that shit out loud in public on the fucking floor of the senate. Privately half jokingly saying it at one of your corellian wine tasting parties or whatever is one thing...but these guys should/would be terrified of getting tarred and feathered out in public or having their career ruined because they are exposed as imperial apologists.

Yeah your right of course. I don't disagree it's perfectly in sync with current continuity... I just really don't like it.

I fucking hate that episode because its complete fucking bullshit that basically suggests the rebel alliance and the fall of the empire was basically meaningless and robs the original trilogy of all meaning and significance.

This is a kinda weird thing to fixate on I guess but I feel like I would be way more hyped up for this game if the main character kept the hat on or something. Their silhouette is just so boring to me and its oddly killing my interest in a game I would probably love in terms of gameplay.

Yeah, 100% recognize I am privileged to be able to do it. Not everyone can...but by God I wish everyone could.

I have absolutely done this and fully encourage everyone who has the ability to follow suite. The best part is I got a fucking productivity spot bonus two weeks ago. Seriously: fuck the cult of work. Its all bullshit. Live your best fucking life comrades!!! I play hookie all the time to go see my 9 year olds school events.

I've been to a few tournaments including Evo last year to compete in Street Fighter 6(excited to go again this year). Gotta say I went expecting con funk but everyone was smelling kinda fresh. Seems like the FGC got the memo to shower in the hotel and stocked up on speedstick.

Then....coming back it hit me immediately. Some of the foulest B.O. I've ever experienced and it was coming from two dudes I was sandwiched between on my 3 hour return flight back. The minute the flight took off they both pulled out their switches and booted up Smash Bros. I hate to stereotype...buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut......

I would argue that it's quite reductive to suggest that having 'higher wages" is more to lose than being able to have "whatever sort of relationship they want".

I think it's accurate to say that men tend to perceive themselves as having more to lose than gain under feminist liberation...but i would argue that perception itself is based on falsehoods steming from patriarchy.

Misandry definitely isn't a systemic issue but I feel the need to push back to say: men are systemically oppressed. The whole point of the concept of patriarchy is that while the form is different both men and women can be both oppressed and oppressors under it. Part of the entire reason why MRAs are completely full of shit is that basically all of the issues they are concerned with, to the extent that they are real issues, (ie family court) can all be traced back to patriarchy and capitalism.

Honestly the older I get the more sense this stuff makes and the more I appreciate this. Life is too short for loading screens.

As someone who has and will continue to argue for games as art: it is a huge embarrassment and indictment how most companies treat their own legacy IPs. Like when a studio rereleases a crown jewel film like Lawrence of Arabia its assumed that they'll treat it with the legacy and respect such a title deserves and spare no expense opting for a full restoration with the latest technology. Often they'll even try to pull in the original director or cinematographer to sign off on it and make sure everything is as it was intended.

Meanwhile you have shit like Sega releasing Sonic Origins as a complete buggy mess with fans left to try and salvage it and them delisting every other port. Shit like this is just the icing on the cake for how little they actually give a shit about preserving any of this stuff.

Have also not read the book but my understanding of it is it definitely puts more emphasis on blackthorn and his perspective. Personally I don't totally buy the idea that Toranaga only keeps him around out of amusement and I think if it was that simple he'd have actually let him gut himself and had a chuckle about it on the way to dinner. That said I do think that monologue was to reemphasize the point that while he may have bumbled into being useful once or twice: Anjin is ultimately a mostly passive player in the history playing out around him and despite all his suffering and ambitions he is destined to be little more than a footnote.