6th. Gaming was mature but internet enabled greed wasn’t there and budgets weren’t too bloated for companies to take risks.

“Problematic media.” People who whinge over this are oversensitive children that treat fictional characters better than real people, think people can’t separate fiction from reality, and actively enable censorship states like the UK.

“Gooner,” “porn addiction,” and adjacent complaints. “Gooners” seem much more well put together to me than the people who hate on them. I swear this is another effort from the global Conservative apparatus to increase repression as a bid to increase the popularity of their social policies. Also I swear some of you just see a woman who looks under 40 in media and call it gooner.

“Cultural appropriation.” Not to say it doesn’t exist, but it’s been completely blown out of proportion, and probably does more to divide us than it does to protect anything. The modern discussion around it assumes everyone is an influencer doing things for money or power.

What consequential piece of normal law was passed in 2022? I thought the last one was Obamacare.

I need sources on this one

It matters because they actively aim to create more shame and repression to increase their ranks.

Hating Democrats (the establishment at least) is justified, but yes, tankies love Trump.

Dallas sucks.

No we’re not doing this. Consider what else poor education levels correlate with.

I don’t watch soccer and they probably didn’t, but if it came out that USMNT threw after that, I wouldn’t blame them. Their reputation would take decades to recover if they won that next game.

I mean I don’t think most black Americans know a foreign language either, because most of them aren’t part of an immigrant diaspora. And IIRC, this phenomenon happens to some extent in most predominantly English speaking countries. Most foreign language learning is a matter of practicality more than a desire to expand knowledge or something, and most non-immigrant Americans don’t have any particular reason to learn one.

I wouldn’t have a problem not speaking ill of dead conservatives if it weren’t for the fact that conservatives think “41%” is the height of comedy

Conservative politicians speak ill of masses of dead innocent civilians.

This is why I can’t with FuckCars anymore. No nuance, no analysis or even acknowledgement of the analysis, just anger and slogans.

Netanyahu? Thiel? Miller? Schumer? Musk?

???

People who participate in the gig economy are generally people barely scraping by. Are you confusing them for contractors or something?

Oh good it’s not something crucial. More a flailing move than a power play.

All current presidents are.

But yes, and I don’t even personally think he’s the worst (Andrew Johnson.)

People do that kind of thing all the time though.

I don’t really think it should tbh. The multiplayer Quake crowd will never like anything that doesn’t play exactly like Q3A, and I don’t see what a new single player Quake could do that Doom couldn’t.

You literally believe your equivalent of the shit Fox News tells you, go to hell with your lame ass.

Here’s some UK data on the subject. The US data looks similar.

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