are you guys gonna go full patriots.lose and start censoring anything that refers to jews?

lol absolutely disintegrated

I loved Blizzard growing up. Starcraft, Diablo 1 and 2, Warcraft 2 and 3. All absolutely epic games.

Now I love to see Blizzard die. Go woke, go broke. They stopped making great games. I hope they die completely. You love to see it.

meh I'm playing fallout new vegas

Too bad, since it's actually a great product. Anyone have recommendations for alternates?

lol I thought the same thing

yeah but I thought kotaku was more for gaming. we have no new normal (nnn) and other subs that cover covid stuff specifically or tangentially.

not nearly enough gaming related stuff here IMO, but I'll admit I don't participate much here

Why is this in kotaku and not nnn or something?

Otherwise it's gotten to the point everything needs so much research if you want it to be halfway decent.

So true. It's such a chore to buy anything anymore. I can't depend on the reviews. I can't depend on the brand or quality of the item. I can't depend on the seller. I can't depend on the e-commerce site. No one has a reputation at stake. And yet for a lot of products, I'm effectively trapped, since now I can't really get a lot of stuff locally.

I've been shifting my electronics (and a lot of other kinds of purchases) to Costco since I know I can at least rely on their return policy, and I know they at least try to stock decent products.

Part of the challenge is that historically, women never raised kids in a setting alone. No woman before the last 100 years had to do what you are doing. Kids were raised in the company of many other children, teenagers, other moms, and also men who were around much more. Nearly everyone used to be farmers on plots of land next to their homes. And there weren't dangerous things everywhere, like chemicals, scissors, electrical sockets, etc. You could literally just let a kid roam and hope the wolves didn't get them. If a child died it was definitely sad, but mom wouldn't be thrown in prison, either.

I notice when I'm around my little nieces and nephews, the parents visibly relax and everyone just kind of keeps their eyes open for the kids. It's way more peaceful and I think it's better for the kids, too.

Totally agree, everyone is less fulfilled and less happy. The amount of professional women I know in their 30's who are sad and childless, as well as absolutely hate their jobs is basically all of them.

For men it's simply a trashcan fire. Constant tip-toeing around the tulips. I've been in workplaces where asking a woman to do work was basically considered an act of aggression.

The Italian cop thrillers sound awesome! I'll check those out.

Good stuff, I'll check it out!

Great list, thank you! I'll check some of these out. Old British Avengers sounds really interesting.

I'll take this opportunity to crowdsource a question I have--what are people's favorite / based movies or TV shows that are actually worth watching?

I've been watching lots of older movies, mostly pre-2000, and really enjoying them. I even started watching the OG Star Trek with Shatner and Nimoy. There's just nothing worth watching made in the last decade.

She probably loves the shit out of it. He's rich, and asians are more racist than anyone.

lol!!!! so true. every day that passes it is more a religion. High sparrow GoT shit.

Firm, clear examples of the slippery slope argument are very helpful in helping people change their minds.

Observing our society going from "gay shouldn't be in the open" to "gay is legal in cali" to "yaaayy gays!!" to "im going to literally mutilate my genitals" was a pretty big deal for me.

Sorry, I know, too little too late, but better late than never I always say.

Thats great news! Very glad to hear it cleared up for you, and thanks for sharing. Hopefully my issue similarly resolves itself.

Stress on capillaries is an interesting thesis, as well as commentary on time to develop issues related to long duration over-stressing the heart. I might start wearing a heart rate monitor to monitor and see.

I feel like such a fucking idiot for taking this stupid ass vaccine. Although I suppose I'd just be thinking it was a covid long-haul issue if I hadn't had the vaccine. I had covid in early 2020.

As a "vaccinated" man, in his 30's, with newfound mild chest pain, I find this extremely frustrating that they would censor this. I'm currently doing tests with doctors to see what's going on, and there is no clear cause, as of yet.

The problem with this VAERS data is that it doesn't seem to clearly show time delay of heart issues following the clot shots. I got the J&J shot in April. Only in October have I started to have chest discomfort. So is this related to the shot, or is this related to something else? Difficult to say. It seems most adverse reactions to the shots occur shortly after injection, as far as I can tell. A 6-month late onset of chest issues directly related to the shot seems unlikely. The "anti-covid" effects of the J&J shot are reduced to from 80% to 3% following 6 months, so I assume that means the shot mostly dissipates, including its ability to damage DNA and my essential organs. But these are assumptions.

Anyone able to share evidence-based thoughts on time delay of vaccine injuries would be appreciated.