Even when I was a lib, it chaffed me that they changed the violent uprising/riot from the end of the book to blowing up a single empty building and taking to the streets in an unrealistically controlled, directed manner. It’s been a while, but I think the monologue even implied that the country’s government isnt even being overthrown, just reforming as a liberal democracy with this single bombing acting as a “warning” towards them.

It reminded me of the V for Vendetta movie where they bent the universe on a way that’s didn’t make sense so they could make it about bush doing 9/11

If he’d just thrown in a “now beat it, buster” there’d be no recovery

A Thiel/Vance vs Musk power struggle over who can wield more influence over the puddle of tapioca that is Trump’s mind is a possibility I had not considered, but it is extremely stupid and so will probably happen.

You’re probably joking, but I actually just shuddered.

The misery of gamers isn’t that surprising to me. A lot of them probably didn’t start gaming because they were particularly drawn to it, there was just nothing else to do.

The problem is the aesthetic of farmers markets? Get the fuck offline

I think it looks patchy because it’s growing in random directions whereas arm hair usually grows in the opposite direction of the thumbs. It’s sort of pointing straight up and then curling over like grass. Also it’s not catching the light correctly, but it’s a video game so what are you gonna do.

Keeners. They’re all fucking keeners.

This is how people used to talk about Breaking Bad after a new episode