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Can never look at that neighbourhood watch guy without seeing the Homestar Runner.

Goblin Tank

Jeez that's a lot of corrupt officials

Is Q even much of a thing anymore? It seemed to dry up when it started to settle in that Biden really was going to be president. I don't see Q pop up much at rallies or as a talking point.

Neelix was deemed mission critical. We needed a goofy guy. A jester man.

I wonder how true this really is. The US has plenty of issues and certainly has increasing competition like it hasn't had in years, but it still seems a long way off 'dying throes' to me.

Internal politics in America are increasingly batshit but they've been increasingly batshit for decades. Externally American remains much in the same position as the economic and military global imperial power by a significant way.

Just how batshit/decadent/hollow does it have to get before actually receding? Open succession? An actual coup? Paramilitary conflict?

Why would this meme be in English

Did you know in NuTrek that BLM and Trump supporters trigger/are part of a second American civil war that leads into WW3?

Bell riots, second civil war, WW3, eugenics war. The lore for that time period in Trek is a mess. They're all smooshed together and so vaguely defined.

Stop trying to keep the timeline contemporary Rick Berman you fuck.

This has been the standard approach for self-reflective industry and audience criticism in the anime scene since Evangelion and it simply does not work. Otaku still argue over Asuka/Rei without irony. They take these things, praise it as masterful deconstruction, then integrate it into industry standard regular content without commentary.

A lot has been said about how satire doesn't really work but it super extra doesn't work on otakus.

Half the shit posted to this website is incomprehensible

oh no

There are a few power-users here that seem to use at least one emoji in every post regardless of tone or context.

Where is Kobeni? Is she safe? Is she alright?

Generational gap is part of it I'd reckon. I can just talk to my friends on my phone or watch something online, I don't have coworkers as my only option of lunch entertainment.

Company 'loyalty' is also less effective than jumping ship to a different employer every 2-3 years so intra-company networking is less useful.

You'd be hard pressed to find one that does. Irish people from Ireland are obviously not British. Republicans in Northern Ireland aren't going to consider themselves British either, maybe "under British Rule" or "British subjects".

The Northern Irish Loyalist might admit under stress they're "Irish" in a technical sense, but they're going to call themselves British first and foremost. People who don't care either way are more likely to self-identify as just "Northern Irish" with all the baggage that implies.

Well typically the story is that you're a loyalist who grew up being British and protestant, to parents that where British and protestant, with grandparents that where British and protestant, and so on and so forth. Then your Dad or Brother gets shot in a field by the IRA in a tit for tat killing. So you join the UDA and go out and kill some catholic kids Dad or Brother and the cycle repeats. To the loyalist, your land, family, neighbours, town, and local government have been British/Unionist since long before you or any of your living family where born so there's not even a conceivable reason to think otherwise.

You gotta remember that before the internet-age for a lot of these towns in N.I, none of the people living there had ever meet a catholic let alone been exposed to their politics.

Loyalists have, and would again, kill members of the British state for their own benefit.

There was a ton of collusion between state security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries but they definitely also fought each other, as the paramilitaries operated like gangs. Loyalist doesn't mean you have love of all the actions of the British State, just that you wish N.I to remain in the union. If loyalists think that the British State is doing something that would weaken N.I remaining in the union then they're not above killing the British if they think it'll benefit them and/or ultimately keep the union, as paradoxical as that sounds.

I used to drive past this all the time, it's still there AFAIK.

Saying they're just N.I GOP is a little reductionist though, they're just opportunists. The average Loyalist doesn't know/give a shit about the confederacy they're just using this to give themselves legitimacy due to a mild historical connection.

Yeah turns out as obnoxious as these guys could be the alternative was much worse

The industry was designed around the fact getting information out to consumers was difficult and costly. The developers went to these shows to give new game info to dedicated games media sites, those sites showed that information alongside ads to make money.

Eventually in the mid 2010's developers found getting information to consumers was increasingly easy. They didn't need to run and maintain an entire dedicated website and attract viewers, all that functionality and existing userbase was already YouTube or Twitter.

So now they don't need to go to a trade show to get information out, and now games media sites can't get info by going to a trade show. It's why both E3 and dedicated games media sites are dead or dying, they became no longer useful for developers.