I guess when you’re a kid yourself you don’t realise it’s a lot more creepy when the writers, animators etc. are 20s, 30s, 40s…

I had a save before the fmv and cried when I forgot and saved over it

Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.

You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to “destroy” immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that “Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter.”

Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer

out of touch

no longer conversant with facts; not aware or realistic

Smells like ignorance, which isn’t ageist

marry someone who says:

• i love you
• i’m proud of you
• i’m grateful for you
• yes we can have more jasmine rice
• no 3 rice in a day isn’t too much
• yes i can make you jasmine rice again
• no 12am isn’t too late to have jasmine rice

Connection to grid is heavily regulated, can take ten years or more and faces heavy opposition, nobody wants this

Want data center rn

Install natural gas jet engine turbines

Profit