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celticwhisper 2 points ago +2 / -0

Just read the first book a few weeks ago. It's definitely based, but I would contend that it's not necessarily the best example of good prose. If you're looking for something more than brain candy, I would supplement MHI with some Tolkien or something like Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein or the like.

That said, it's a hell of a lot of fun and definitely gets firearms right in addition to wholeheartedly embracing their value and utility.

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celticwhisper 3 points ago +3 / -0

He's what the modern alphabet crowd would call an "identity traitor" or some shit like that. It's worth a listen, especially when he sledgehamnmers a wedge between the "LGB" and the rest of the alphabet soup, PARTICULARLY the "T". It's like when Shapiro talks about writing college papers like a commie and then using the universities' degrees against them. Slocum leans on his experience being gay in the 70s and 80s and uses it to shred the modern left's narrative.

He's what you'd get if Milo Yiannopoulos was smarter and dead serious instead of an attention-mongering troll.

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celticwhisper 19 points ago +20 / -1

Wouldn't a goal of the lawsuit be to make it much harder for them to do exactly that? A courtroom win would be a shot across the bow to other companies that this kind of discrimination won't be tolerated and that they'll be liable for damages if they're found doing the same thing Blizzard is here.

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celticwhisper 2 points ago +2 / -0

Anti-blue no matter who.

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celticwhisper 3 points ago +3 / -0

Video Game Outsiders, especially if you're listening in the car because they do a great job with their audio production and it overcomes road noise pretty well.

VGO is on a comedy network and so is equal part gaming podcast and comedy podcast. Michelle, one of the long-time co-hosts, proudly calls herself a troll, a shit-stirrer, and a member of the Glorious PC Master Race and gleefully skewers woke shit and games "made by people with blue hair." To the point that John, the other main host, will often cue up "God Save the Queen" as Michelle gets on her soapbox and rails against social justice shit ruining her enjoyment of games and humor.

Mix in John's manic antics (he may take some time to grow on you, as some episodes he can be kind of obnoxious and has a tendency to interrupt a LOT) and Matt, the token Canadian, taking flack for being high half the time he games and looking up "steam titty game" for their periodic NSFW episodes and you have a recipe for a gaming podcast that DGAF about who it offends and realizes that people need to lighten the fuck up and laugh.

It's the only podcast I pay money to subscribe to, which is also worth it because you get bonuses like Michelle's "Sane Gamer" episodes and the You Suck Show.

If you're looking for something more, Niche Gamer has a podcast that moved to Soundcloud and, IIRC, has never been the most frequent with updates. It was usually one several-hour episode per month. Good if you follow NG but doesn't have the punch of VGO.

Finally, there's Splash Damage with Scrivonaut and his wife Norayla, which focuses in specifically on politics where gaming and leftism converge. It's a little amateur, with Scrivonaut often fumbling for words, but I can say both hosts are sincere and any lack of eloquence on Scriv's part is more than made up for by insight.

VGO and SD are the ones I listen to most frequently, depending on whether I want politics or want to laugh at politics.

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celticwhisper 39 points ago +39 / -0

8 RAPES and he only got 11 years, whereas they're threatening people with 15 for daring to protect themselves?

Politicians' heads need to roll in Australia.

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celticwhisper 1 point ago +1 / -0

Septic Flesh "Communion" FTW. Love me that Meow Mix bassline.

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celticwhisper 3 points ago +3 / -0

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD AN ELECTION, WOULD YOU?

by borga
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celticwhisper 3 points ago +3 / -0

Reminds me of Christopher Hitchens. "I am not fighting cancer. Cancer is fighting me."

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celticwhisper 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, you're allowed to say Nougat here.

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celticwhisper 1 point ago +1 / -0

They could always bring back the senile pope character from early seasons and do some kind of Biden reveal.

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