The billionaire owned media is normalizing this on purpose.

Where is bird’s cigarette?!

Hey, give the man credit for all of his achievements. It was 34 felonies.

We know. Do something.

Yet another in a long parade of confirmations that these fuck heads never cared about children.

I salute anyone who can listen to Jefferies talk long enough to know whatever thing he is saying as uncharismatically as humanly possible.

Epstein Americans will clearly support cheeto no matter what he does.

I have 4 and a quad monitor mount. 3 would have been fine. 4 is useful sometimes though.

It’ll make more sense if you look at his comment history a bit.

That’s… Also bad? Why are you bringing that up?

He would almost certainly vote for Trump again given the opportunity. So, no sympathy.

Before covid I used to get annoyed by zombie shows/movies because the decisions characters make in them are often ridiculously stupid. Too stupid to believe, I thought.

And now I know that the unrealistic part is that no one ever goes and gets bitten on purpose to prove the zombies they can see with their own eyes aren’t real. Because people absolutely would do that.

I recognize the hyperbole, but have you really seen that here? I’ve seen criticism of going along with funding or suggesting finding body cameras, and a failing of consistent messaging of condemnation, but I haven’t seen claims that Democrats are worse on ICE than red hats are. Is that a thing you’re really seeing?

I really hope something good actually happens, but we have had good reason in recent history to not give them credit until they actually accomplish something. The last… performance they gave ended in caving without any concessions.

Part of what made me so angry the last time is that now, even if they are serious this time, there’s no reason for the red hats to take them seriously.

Bullshit.

Not at all! I think StarCraft: Ghost is a reinforcement of what I said in my response to Makhno.

I thought Ghost was a great idea, but the context surrounding it was fundamentally different. Ghost was a spin-off alongside an active RTS series. Starcraft was still a core Blizzard product, and StarCraft II was already an expected continuation. Nobody thought Ghost was replacing the genre identity of the franchise.

You’re arguing against a position nobody stated. My criticism isn’t that an IP ever appears in another genre. It is the pattern of publishers repurposing established strategy franchises into monetization-friendly live-service shooters because that market is larger and more predictable.

Warhammer is a poor comparison. Games like Vermintide didn’t replace or redefine Warhammer; they existed alongside a still-supported core genre identity. The RTS space around StarCraft has effectively been abandoned for years. So when the first meaningful revival rumor turns out to be a shooter, I read it less as expansion and more as substitution.

If Blizzard announced a new RTS and also a shooter spin-off, I would not be critical. The reaction is about genre displacement, not genre diversification.

Let’s take something arguably genre defining and turn it into a fad chaser! Great idea.

Windows Defender has been sufficient for most users for a while. Which is just a default part of the OS unless you go out of your way to remove it.

It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.