Excited to hear some neocons dropping a turd over the news

Did they vote for the clowns running this circus?

Giving every die hard Ted Cruz supporter a free pass

I have massive issues with how the game awards runs itself, but the solution isn’t to artificially restrict what a game can win.

It’s an awards show. Everything about it is artificial

Totally her fault for not buying stock

You joke, but we never see the “I voted for Trump three times and now I’m a fucking billionaire cause I bet on the ponies”.

Even though that’s exactly who is propping up the conservative movement.

It’s just exhausting to hear “You should have voted for the Democrats” when we did have Democrats 12 of the last 20 years and they weren’t some magical panacea for any of this shit either.

“Oh if only you’d just voted differently, everything would be better” is pure liberal cope. Dems from California to Vermont are experiencing all the same problems.

Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

??? How did you get here?

If a game does the best in multiple categories should it be skipped over just to highlight another game?

It’s all subjective. If you make Balatro and I make BG3, there’s no objective way to evaluate “Best Game” between the two. You’ve got to make some subjective judgement (or just put your hand out and collect bribes).

Giving one of them a full stack of awards doesn’t signal quality, it signals bias.

If an indie studio’s first game wins best indie game how can it not also be the best debut indie game

E33 wasn’t the studio’s first game. So it shouldn’t be winning the “award for debut games” on the ground alone.

But yes, if you’re winning the “indie game” (which E33’s budget shouldn’t have qualified it for anyway) spotlight another game under “debut” even if you’re predisposed to favor turn based RPGs over platformers or puzzle games or simulators. In fact, especially then.

This isn’t just recognizing the game, it’s recognizing the actors.

It’s recognizing the budget more often than not.

Hey now. China’s been churning out much higher quality merch of late. And the American Tech Giants have been increasingly wrapped up in US trade war politics. So a lot of this shit now comes from the Philippines, India, and Bangladesh.

Amazon’s going through the same enshitification cycle as Sears and JC Penny did a decade ago.

It’s not a question of “Will people stop using Amazon?” but “Will people start using <X>” where X is better than Amazon. Solve for X.

I mean, if you’ve got an REI in your neighborhood, that can be handy. But even they still get their merch from somewhere that isn’t the storefront or even the city. There really isn’t a “buy local” option for textiles in a material sense, unless you really know where to look.

The internet was so good in 08. You searched for stuff, found exactly what you needed, and were done.

Shit was bad in 2008, too. The degree to which drop shippers had consolidated down to one mega-wholesaler rather than a dozen crappy fly-by-nights hadn’t happened yet. You got a dozen different flavors of crap rather than just one. But it was still crap.

Poor kids today will never know anything other than ad ridden bot corponet.

Under an Amazon keyword search, sure. You can still find good quality products outside of Amazon. You can even find it inside Amazon if you know what you’re looking for.

The difference between 2008 and 2025 is primarily that Amazon’s algorithmic tools have degraded to the state of Yahoo or Sears.

Freedom To Choose

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Did they bring it about? I seem to recall “Entitlement Reform” as bipartisan issue.

FFS, look at the Michael Bloomberg campaign. And he’s practically running the national party at this point.

It echoes the old 1954 animated film practically to the point of plagarization, at least at the start. By the end its drifting off into 1984 territory.

Given the folks making them movie have a history of heavy handed adaptations of Bible stories, I suspect we’re going to get some Ayn Rand tier monologuing at multiple points in the film. Wouldn’t bank on it being “salvaged” in any meaningful sense. This is going to be pure slop. I suspect it’ll make for some entertaining memes, though.

Gotta wonder how many of these trained, blooded combat veterans are going to take this abuse laying down.

Their blockbuster title “Sound of Freedom” is, curiously enough, a story intended to be a hagiography of Tim Ballard, a man with numerous sexual misconduct allegations

And now they’re making a movie about “King David”. Don’t even get me started on that creep.

It’s still nice. Honestly, the reciprocation of appreciation/affection is its own glamour filter. The girl who thinks I’m hot is made hotter as a result.

Guy who is extremely confident he will not go bald.