I'm thinking why don't they lock these crazy people up?

Because the government cut funding to insane asylums and other treatment facilities that could help them. Then, in the name of cleaning up their own mess (and making it someone else's problem in the process) they began practicing Greyhound Therapy. They'd find a relative or extended family member of the person who really ought to be locked up and medicated, get them a cross-country bus ticket to where ever that person was located, and slap the person on the bus to nowhere. They arrive in their "new hometown" with little to no resources (and likely a family member that doesn't want them around in the first place) and so they fall back on what they know - panhandling and existing in an intoxicated or drug-induced haze.

So yeah, a lot of these people could benefit from a structured, state-run facility that assists in providing care and structure for their lives. Unfortunately, nobody wants to be the one to pay for that care, much less work in those places.

File this shit under "Tell me you've lived in a city your entire life, without telling me that you've lived in a city your entire life."

My hot takes:

• Nobody should be fired because they believe life begins at conception.

• GoW: Ragnarok looks to be stuck in the "encroaching wokeness" pit. Sadly, you know the wokies are going to flip their shit over the discussion point that there weren't black vikings or viking gods because the dude that voices Kratos is black. They just don't get it that an actor can play a part that's not of the same race when it's voice-over work and they don't need to force diversity into a game by shoehorning in black, gay, and trans characters.

• I'm not touching the new KOTOR remake with a ten-foot-pole. Screw that wokeness-rework bullshit.

• Kotaku can suck it when it comes to their opinions on hiring practices. The best thing for a company is to hire the right person for the job, not fill it with a diversity role who may not know their asshole from their elbow when it comes to business practices.

• Evil Hat can get what they want: We'll happily stay away from their games, let them subsist on the largess of the lard-ist blue-checks. They'll change their tune when it hits their bottom line.

Right, but if there are fewer men going into fields that require a college degree and are potentially higher-paying than the jobs the women would have, then that means that they won't be able to pay off the woman's debt as you note they have done in the past. I feel that this is part of the reason why they're pushing so hard for prior education debt forgiveness in addition to free college educations for all - no need to have the man pay back the money for their useless Women's Studies degree if they got it for free. What they don't figure into it is the devaluation of any other non-useless degrees in the process.

Personally, if I were giving advice to a young man who was about to hit college age, I'd suggest going into a skilled trade. Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, construction, what have you. Get an apprenticeship, learn to work that hustle and be your own boss, and you'll be out of debt and making real money by the time you hit 25.

Yeah, but the thing about DeNiro is that he has a good enough deadpan delivery that he can totally play the straight man in a comedy movie (see: Meet the Parents) or potentially play it off as being dry humor. Natalie Portman has about as much range as a petrified statue covered in hot grits.

"Odinson", if you're to believe the comics. Never mind that under Scandinavian naming schemes his full name would be " Thor Odinnson". The wokies that took over at Marvel Comics declared his name to be the title of the bearer of the power of Thor, and when he became "unworthy" and Jane ended up with the hammer she was then "Thor". It's just more woke feminist garbage that's leaking into the movies.

This is the same horseshit they pulled when they made Jane into FemThor over in the comics. "Thor isn't his name, it's the title of the god of thunder" they say. Bull. Fucking. Shit. The hammer fucking says on the side of it, "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor" (emphasis mine). Not "the name of Thor", the power. Cap didn't get hit with a lightning bolt and suddenly have a cape and Asgardian armor when he picked it up. The whole "Jane is Thor now" garbage was nothing more than woke feminist bullshit when it happened in the comics, and is more than enough reason to boycott the movie this time around, too.

Guaran-fucking-tee you that if they were the right type of games from the right type of developer, they'd be throwing a shit-fit over the crackdown. But because it's a blanket ban on everything it also clamps down on games that are guilty of wrongthink (on top of being a reason to suck the CCP's dick even more), so these jagoffs are celebrating it in the streets.

Now I see it as the greatest mistake ever, allowing the general population access to the internet.

So much this, it isn't even funny. I first got access to the Internet back in '95 when I transferred to a state university from community college. Between discovering Usenet and IRC, it was like a whole new world opened up in front of me. The amount of information that could be shared between people all across the world left me awestruck.

Then, as access became easier and easier, the discourse got worse and worse. The creators tried to make it more friendly for the masses, and in the process the masses just shit all over everything. The Eternal September that started two years prior to when I arrived continues, and at this rate it will never end until access is curtailed or a new Internet with more stringent entry requirements is created.

The barrier for entry to The Internet has gotten lower and lower as the years have gone by, ergo the discourse has gotten shittier and shittier. We're still in the Eternal September, and it's only going to get worse so long as we allow any moron with a smartphone access to the 'net at large.

This myth needs to die. There is much cheaper, much healthier food out there. It's just that nobody will eat it any more.

Oh, no argument there. When I was living solo back in college and barely scraping by paycheck to paycheck I was buying bags of rice, beans, and the "use it today or freeze it" pounds of ground beef or chicken quarters at the store, along with the spices to make dirty rice or red beans and rice. I survived on that stuff for years. It was monotonous as hell, but I knew it was nutritious and it'd keep me alive.

But I had a few advantages over a lot of people on government assistance:

1. I had half a clue about nutritional value.

2. I had half a clue about the value of a dollar (since it was coming out of my pocket and not from Uncle Sam).

3. My mom actually taught me how to cook when I was a kid, and drilled it into my head that it wasn't going to be my wife or girlfriend's responsibility to feed me.

Most of the people you see out there on government assistance that are buying up convenience food are either too uneducated to know about food values, too uneducated to know how to cook, and/or too lazy to learn or care about either. They'd rather just grab their bag of chips and 2-liter, and throw a TV dinner in the microwave than take the time to cook a meal.

Because parents don't want to be a parent and learn how to cook proper meals for their kids. They'd rather go grab a bag of frozen chicken nuggets, a box of Kraft mac & cheese, and a bag of frozen french fries and run them all through the microwave to feed to their spoiled brats (who, in turn, throw a fit if you try to feed them anything else).

Pretty much all pre-packaged convenience food in the US is crammed FULL of salt, fat, and carbs, and it totally horrible for you. It's also, paradoxically, some of the least expensive food you can buy, so it's not uncommon for those in the lower income brackets who live on government subsidies to buy said lower-priced foods with their handout.

My wife worked at a grocery store in her younger years. She said it wasn't uncommon to see welfare queens come rolling through the checkout with cartloads of soda, chips, and frozen heat-and-eat foods in addition to blowing their stipend on other extravagant items they wouldn't be able to afford otherwise, such steaks. I know the rules have changed somewhat in more recent years and prevent them from buying some of that stuff, so they just double down on the things they can buy with it.

That being said: I'm not saying that every person on welfare/foodstamps is the same. I know there are a lot of people out there that are making the best of a bad situation. It's just a damn shame when the ones that are abusing the system give those who are using it properly a bad name.

Yeah and no. The game of that name is a sci-fi porn game. Tim tried to sue them to get them to change their name.

For those OOTL: Boyfriend Dungeon is one of those dating sims that the LGBTQMNOP+@! types love so much, but apparently a metric buttload of them got triggered as hell over the antagonist. In their usual fashion, they couldn't separate the art from the artist, and they were sending the voice actor hate mail.

They'll still find some way to blame it on the non-LGBT gaming crowd, though. Just wait.

Oh yeah. I remember when the stupid "Ba-da-ba-ba-ba" jingle came around. It was weaksauce then, and it's still weaksauce. Just give me a burger and fries that tastes decent, at a reasonable price, and I'd be a hell of a lot happier than if it comes with some stupid gimmick attached. That's probably why I tend to go to the local mom-n-pop shop more than McDicks, but every now and then I just don't feel like making the drive across town, so I settle for convenience - and I'm quickly reminded of why I usually go to the mom-n-pop.

I saw this shit on the menu board the last time I cruised through the drive through, and although I knew of a couple of the other "signature meals", the first thought through my mind was "Da fuq is a 'Saweetie'?" Then I saw the content of the "meal" - 4-piece nugs, a Big Mac, BBQ sauce, "Saweetie" sauce, fries, and a drink? Fuck that noise.

So, out of morbid curiosity I looked up the "artist" that I had never heard of in my life. Granted, I live in Whitebread, Midwest, so I'm not exactly up on the latest musical trends, but you can imagine my surprise (or lack thereof) when I saw it was some rapper chick with Shaniqua nails and hair to match. Maybe I'm just old, but Mickey-D's needs to knock the shit off with trying to lure in the younger crowd with "signature meals", and just focus on making food that's passably edible.

Part of me is like "Well, that's another 32K people we don't have to worry about reproducing and fucking up the world even more", but we still have to worry about keeping them away from grooming any new recruits. On top of that, I just shake my head when it comes to thinking about the number of surgeries that were actually life-saving and not just "gender affirming" that got bumped because of this bullshit.

Maybe not, but they'll damn sure rally around her as the head of power once they get the opportunity to remove his ass from the big chair in the oval office. Leftists are all two-faced sycophants that'll smile to your face when you're in power, while they talk shit about you behind your back and keep looking for a place to stick the knife at the first opportunity.

He'll top it once we get to January 21, 2023, when either he announces his resignation from the presidency, or he is hospitalized (never to return), and the transfer of power shifts to Harris. Two years and a day is all he needs to serve for her to be able to not only take power for the rest of his term, but also be eligible to run for two more terms as president. They're just praying that he lasts that long and they can continue to prop him up and pull a Weekend at Bernie's on the general public.

Modern books with a solo/primary female protag are pretty much a given to be woke as hell or a Mary-Sue fest, but you're right, I probably should have clarified. That being said, you have to watch out for ensemble casts, because even with the common "two guys, a girl, and a robot sidekick" setup, there's a less-than-zero chance these days (especially if it's a relatively new female author) that the guys will be simps/incompetent when it matters the most and it'll be the woman who has to step in and save them all. The Nu-Sci-Fi authors can't help themselves.

I can't really recommend any single direct articles, because the whole blow-up and subsequent meltdown of the Hugo awards happened over the course of a few years and there was a lot of flak flying back and forth from both sides of it. Larry Correia's' blogs from the time period of the Sad Puppies give a good running history of the shit that went down, but weeding though his posts to find the relevant ones may be a bit of a chore. If he's up for reading some highlights, I'd point your friend at monsterhunternation.com and tell him to hit up the "Best of" section for Larry's blog highlights, and to read the Fisking section, where Larry picks apart the wokeness in the publishing and fandom world.

Your recommendation to generally avoid any Hugo/Nebula/mainstream sci-fi award-winners from the last several years is pretty solid. I'd suggest that any book that was nominated or won from 2009 or before is a safe read, provided you warn him off of some of the woke hacks like Doctorow or Scalzi, and advise him to take anything Gaiman wrote with a huge grain of salt. Stuff published by Baen is usually pretty free from wokeness, and there are a few decent modern authors (Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series avoids wokeness infection fairly well, and while Terry Pratchett's stuff is being co-opted by the wokies pulling a "death of the author" his older stuff still stands as excellent fantasy satire), but beyond that I've started using the rule of thumb that if it is from a female writer or has a female protagonist, I avoid it until I see a decent plot synopsis. If it leads with a focus on gender, sexual orientation, or even remotely implies that the protag is a Mary Sue, I drop it like a hot rock.

Gotta love it when the banks cuck out and screw (no pun intended) a major source of revenue, just because they want to get all puritanical about it. That being said, I fully expect another alternative to rise up (pun fully intended) in short order, because porn, uh... finds a way.

They got the community added shortly after they tried going to ruqqus, and the ruqqus hit them with a ban as part of a blanket ban wave against "hate" channels. Ruqqus quickly said "oh, shit," and reinstated the MGTOW guild once they realized they done fucked up, but at that point it was too late and the group had laready found alternatives, like the sub-win.

Not to put too fine a point on it, you can't copyright certain game mechanics. The whole "werewolf"/"mafia" rule set has been around since the 1980s. Best they could have done was copyright mechanics like the mini-games or venting to get yourself across the map unseen. So yeah, as much as I hate Epic and Fortnite, my general opinion is "cry more about it".

It's pretty obvious as to why they buried it in menus and just left the avatar of the character looking like a fair-faced guy with white hair - so they can easily yank the trans references for the foreign market. Gotta pander to the wokies and the CCP, after all.