ConstableJelly

Conservatives can either stand for freedom, or they can stand for oppression — but they cannot do both. If they truly value individual liberty, they should defend our right to marry. If they turn on us now, they reveal who they really are.

Trump won in 2024 in part due to the left’s overreach. If the right continues down this path, they could meet a similar fate in future elections. As more people come out as LGBT, and as more LGBT people voice concerns with far-left activist orthodoxies, Republicans should be broadening the tent, not excluding these people and pushing them away. Hemorrhaging potential voters to get your druthers isn’t a winning political strategy. The pendulum from hell will just keep swinging back and forth until we all decide we’ve had enough.

"I stood with the Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party, but now that they're trying to eat my face, I call on the Leopard's to do better, and eat only the faces that reason and fairness dictate should be eaten."

That's not the lesson, Reid, you learned it wrong again!

We did the subtitled show at AMC, mostly because it was the most convenient time but also because we always watch everything at home with subtitles. It was great!

For me, Insomniac's design style is feeling outdated. I'll be pumped for their next Spider-Man game because I love that character, I love their version of the character, and the games are fun to play at least in a tactile sense.

This one does not have me convinced.

I know this feeling all too well, glad you did right by yourself. And remember, even if you're doctor says, "there's nothing we can do, just rest and let your body recover itself," it was still worth doing to be safe.

"You can't rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn't be your default belief. I don't think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from id games."Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy? Could they have created more things for fans to buy? Could they have cost-effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games? Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones? Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper? I really don't know."

I'm no expert, but ya doy. Microsoft's play to pursue low-cost, high-return recurring revenue by shoving their extraordinarily talented single-player studios (Rocksteady, Arkane) at OBVIOUSLY terrible live service titles is bad enough on its own but is also a telling reflection of the executive mindset (this goes for Sony too). Profit is king, data is infallible, and development talent is best directed at our behest and is easily expendable when needed.

Let game devs do what they want. Some games will fail, but jesus, not at the scale and volume that they're failing at right now.

Understood, and I concede the benefit of being able to choose and fix on a PC, it's definitely better. But it's almost more of a difference in perception. For someone unfamiliar with PC builds, it's not a matter of not having a choice but not having to choose or having to fix anything. It's the promise that it will work on its own (notwithstanding the reality of hardware failures in general).

I'm leaning this way for the first time in decades. I've had every Playstation console from the beginning, plus Xbox and Nintendo systems here and there. As the indie game market has evolved in the past 5-10 years, I've found my playing preferences transition away from big, detailed, AA/A, as I'm sure many others have as well. I bought a Steam OS Legion Go last year and have been enchanted by the flexibility of PC gaming, even as it's limited for me to what can be played on a handheld.

I strongly disagree with any notion that consoles have had no value comparable to PCs for years. I think PC gamers vastly underestimate the value of being able to one-click purchase a console, pull it out of the box, plug it in, and play. I've explored gaming PC purchases since I bought the Legion, and there is a comparably steep commitment required to research CPUs, GPUs, storage, cooling, and RAM, and how their combination will affect performance and longevity. You can buy pre-built, but you're looking at roughly $1k for a lower mid-level machine, plus peripherals and maintenance. Perhaps this is part of the fun for some people, but it's definitely a barrier for many.

On the other hand, the distance between PCs and consoles continues to widen, where the newly released PS5 was only barely a good value for its power compared to PCs when it released and quickly fell behind again. Similarly, I've enjoyed being able to experiment with games I wouldn't otherwise have played via the Playstation Plus catalog, but no subscription media service has ever maintained or increased its value over time, and Sony has already raised prices while the quality of its offerings continues to wane. And of course the abandonment of physical media means that we are further locked into an already tight ecosystem.

Ultimately, one of the big reasons I'm finally considering a PC purchase in place of the next console generation is that I've been playing with a home media server the past couple years and recently migrated to Linux Mint. My confidence level with feeling capable of managing a PC effectively has grown enough that the aforementioned barrier feels less intimidating. Hopefully the Steam Machine will close the gap for some console players feeling similarly, but the inability to upgrade the GPU feels too big a deal when I could just make the slightly longer leap to an actual PC.

RPS is one of two video game sites I subscribe to, the other being Jank, which is a direct, independent spinoff of RPS. They have a consistent house style that values the fun and creativity of good prose (even if they sometimes fail to reach that standard). I imagine some people would find their style hamfisted, but it feels authentic to me in a way that almost every other publication doesn't. They don't have that homogenizing tone to their voice that's reaching for the superficial cultural moment and SEO optimization that outlets like IGN have.

I've gotten the opposite impression, especially with all those recent AI advocates getting booed and laughed at by students during university commencement speeches. It feels like the usual 'powerful elites with huge platforms' - including legacy and independent media - versus almost everyone else.

Beginning the trailer with an earnest, unironic pronouns joke is absolutely the worst possible way to advertise that your antiquated, creatively bankrupt spoof series is returning for the right reasons. That joke would have been worth a groan at best 10 years ago on the Babylon Bee.

Then "I'm a Republican now so I'm supposed the be racist."

Then "There are no safe spaces."

And the tagline "Every line will be crossed."

If this movie is somehow successful, whoever's remaining at the Daily Wire will be kicking themselves that they couldn't afford to fund it themselves.

And that's on top of the pitifully tired gags like calling the "Wednesday" reference character "Tuesday" or the dildos.

Grossly inconsiderate of Mamdani to be governing so efficiently and effectively to date for all the conservatives and liberal democrats who now have to work that much harder to continue their efforts discrediting democratic socialism as an unrealistic framework for politics in the U.S.

Trump, already a prominent New York real estate figure, saw his national profile rise significantly during his time on the show, popularizing the catchphrase “You’re fired!” NBC cut ties with him in 2015, citing “derogatory statements” about immigrants. He was elected president the following year.

Thank you for that depressingly amusing framing, The Hill.