Wait. He hasn’t crumbled into dust or whatever these “Offputting guy with shit politics who has an inexplicable army of irritating tween fans” youtubers do when they’re past their shelf life? I thought he was irritating when I was in high school. That was…what, thirteen years ago now?

They had to photoshop the flag in?

Right wing conspiracy theorists have always made new world orders sound like they honestly wouldn’t be the worst outcome to geopolitics

None of these people ever seem to think they’d be one of the people getting the shitty end of the stick at the bottom of the pyramid

Also, The periodic table? The categorization of elements has undergone constant iteration and refinement for centuries. There’s a reason you don’t hear about the plum pudding model or the four classical elements anymore. Hell, five new elements have been discovered in the past 25 years alone.

I’m hoping eventually this extends back to stuff like TV stations signing off and the end of the 24/7 news cycle. Won’t put the cat back in the bag on the latter, but this whole “No brakes, society has to keep moving all the time and constantly get faster at it” mindset is unsustainable for a whole host of reasons.

I’ve still gotta do a deep dive on Sea Power. Loved their stuff in DE, but just kinda haven’t gotten around to it yet. Maybe once I’m caught up on Future Sound of London? (Speaking of the DE playlist)

I’ve heard scuttlebutt about US think tank players like Focus on The Family moving in following the collapse. I doubt this is the whole of it, but I wonder what their role here is.

As a bit of trivia re: games being political, Atari’s Missile Command (1980) was explicitly a statement on the futility of nuclear war inspired by the devs’ own fears during the cold war.

On the PC/Home computer end, you also had political sims like Balance of Power (1985-1990), which…well…

As for SEGA and Japanese politics, they made a whole ass arcade game dunking on prime minister Kakuei Tanaka taking bribes in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal. It got a export release virtually unchanged, somehow.

I’m still holding out hope that Entertainment Sciences’ Bouncer turns up someday. We have basically everything but source code or a cab… Shit, there’s character model sheets that’ve been scanned and everything.

and, it’s like, these people are shitheads but sit there and bitch and mewl when someone does something even a hundredth as cruel to them. Suppressing opposition using ettiquette and decorum as a blunt instrument.

Cruelty is the air human politics breathes, It pisses me off that people just get to pretend otherwise when it’s convenient for them. Be assholes or don’t be assholes, don’t sit there slinging shit then just turn into a snivelling I’m-just-a-little-guy-why-would-anyone-do-this-to-me type when it curries favor with the unengaged and the normies

Okay so what is he - or anyone - gonna do about it? It’s obvious we have a problem, so what’s the prescription?

It’s interesting how quickly the Disney canon managed to develop the same problems the OT/PT had with the old EU - a lot of side material that’s deeper and more interesting than the actual movies. At least the OT/PT managed to pick a plot and stick to it long enough to get a cohesive end result, though.

Terry Schaivo all over again (But worse)

RETVRN to hot couch guy

MATTEL ELECTRONICS PRESENTS:

B-52 BOMBERRR

I had actual friends for precisely two years of high school. Mostly just been coworkers, people at the wrong time for socialization, and people I’m afraid to talk to since. Been on three dates, none of which went anywhere. Pretty much didn’t know anyone that wasn’t a coworker or family for my entire 20s. My social skills have been atrophying for like fifteen years

The national level party’s pigheaded “seniority above all else”, “don’t cut in line” thinking really needs to go.

Reminds me of Taito managing to lose the source code to Bubble Bobble in a basement flood.

Hell, I’m an em dash enjoyer.

Fucking Harry S. Truman got why this shit was a problem.

I’ve seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn’t believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don’t want a phony Democrat. If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don’t want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign. (May 17, 1952)