Playboy debuts its first transgender Playmate
French model Ines Rau has been named Playboy’s first transgender Playmate. Her photo editorial will debut the November/December 2017 issue, which will also feature a substantial tribute to the magazine’s late founder Hugh Hefner, who will also appear on the cover.
While the first transgender model to earn the coveted title of “Playmate,” Rau is not the first transgender model to appear in Playboy’s pages. In fact, her initial shoot in the magazine three years ago launched her successful modeling career. In May 2014, she was shot nude for a spread called “Evolution.” As Playboy writes, “the accompanying copy surveys humanity’s halting shift toward acceptance of gender identities beyond the male-female binary.”
What’s is it about straight male sexuality that frightens The Woke Army so much that it has to destroy even its simplest pleasures? There are plenty of transgender porn and erotica in the world… why bring it to Playboy? What even is the point of Playboy in this day and age of genderqueer demisexual otherkins choke-jerking in Anne Frank Halloween costumes?
I hope Zombie Hefner kills them all.
Making sense of Russia, uranium and Hillary Clinton
To hear Sean Hannity tell it, the media is ignoring “what is becoming the biggest scandal — or, at least, one of them — in American history.”
Hannity is jumping waaay ahead of the facts. So is Breitbart News, which has been running misleading headlines like this: “FBI uncovers confirmation of Hillary Clinton’s corrupt uranium deal with Russia.”
Brent Bozell, founder of the conservative Media Research Center, claims that there is “another coverup in the making.” And President Trump chimed in Thursday morning on Twitter.
New reporting this week by the Hill has, indeed, added a layer of intrigue to the sale of a uranium mining company to Russia’s atomic energy agency, which was approved by the Clinton-led State Department and eight other U.S. government agencies. But the latest developments, as they relate to Clinton, are not as explosive as certain news outlets — eager to draw attention away from reporting on President Trump and Russia — would have you believe.
The Washington Post has gone so far past carrying water for Hillary they are basically just hosing her off in the backyard at this point. It’s not a story about Clinton’s corruption so much as an extending whine that the conservative media is being a big ol’ poopyhead again. The tone suggests that they wouldn’t even be writing about it if it was for those darn kids! Silence is complicity, you toerags.
The Hat and the Hair have both declared the Fake Melania Meme to be Fake News. When pushed for clarification if Fake News of Fake Melania meant there were Fake Melanias or that there aren’t Fake Melanias, the Hat told this reporter to do something anatomically difficult with a pineapple deep dish pizza and ended the call.
But there’s also the Trump administration’s long record of ridiculous antics, which have conditioned us to believe that just about anything is possible. The man uses Scotch tape on his ties and owns a fake Renoir. A fake Time magazine with him on the cover as well as a plaque for a Civil War battle that never took place adorn his golf clubs. At this point, we don’t trust anything these people do. The idea of pulling a stunt like having a body double for the first lady and then ostentatiously lying about is just about as Trumpian as it gets.
And if anybody in the Trump administration had a body double, it would be Melania. The first lady didn’t seem particularly enthusiastic to move to Washington, to accompany her husband as his presidency was beginning, and her slowness to fill out her staff could also indicate a reluctance to participate in official White House activities. On social media, critics of Donald Trump have taken special glee in dissecting the moments when Melania seems to reject her husband’s hand or forget to hide the despair on her face. So the thought that maybe, just maybe, the real Melania is lying in a spa somewhere with cucumbers on her eyes, Barron by her side, binge-watching The Real Housewives of Ljubljana, waiting for 2021? It’s simply too delicious to resist.
Is it too soon after Weinsteingateghazi for this? And why is the radio edit the only one with the video on YouTube?
FFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSTTTTTT!!!!
You have to quote something from the links yo.
nu uh. I got a gif an everything!
Why does that penis have two urethral openings?
Rule 34 bro
For a minute there I didn’t refresh and thought you were talking about my avatar.
War on women update:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/10/19/ayfkm-dem-rep-blames-women-for-appearing-inviting-in-cases-of-sexual-assault/
Looking at Bernice I am pretty sure she has her bases covered.
THOU SHALT NOT OUTLAW MENTHOLS.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-chief-menthol-tobacco-flavors-could-do-both-harm-and-good-1508432700
Outlawing menthols would be explicitly;y racist.
That is not Kool, man
*narrows gaze*
Read a feature recently about a guy who nearly died of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndrome
Three posts in a row with no T&A?
Q is testing the Playboy strategy. He’ll soon shift to the transgender nudes market.
I’ve been gutted by the left, stage 4 is in progress….
At least your flimsy blue skins is easy to remove and wear, should be perfect for when they’re wearing your empty husk and replace your lists of busty women with pictures of fat, nude demisexual black gender-queer vegan midgets.
LOL
So it’s like reading SF fiction.
That….would be a nightmare for me.
From Wikipedia:
That sounds suspicious to me. People had been widely smoking for the previous fifty years and all of a sudden it shows up? Is it possible that this is the result of some sort of additive or insecticide?
Perhaps the pot you are smoking is not yer pappy’s pot?
I mean, did peanut allergies even exist 50 years ago? These things happen.
My dad was in living hell for eight years due to this. Took the VA doctors that long to figure out what was wrong with him.
*tries to envision hiding the current edition of Playboy under mattress*
Nope, can’t do it
Hef’s body isn’t even cold yet and they have already reached the skinsuit stage.
They can hand them out at NFL games.
She isn’t the first transsexual model in Playboy, just the first actual Playmate (of the Month).
She’s not Brandi Brandt.
Maybe it was her double?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/15/article-2508007-196F9E6C00000578-377_306x423.jpg
Penis or no, if she has a Y chromosome and a prostate gland I’m not interested.
Hell, I remember them featuring a tranny in a pictorial back when I was in high school in the early ’90s. A friend of mine’s dad had a subscription and we’d swipe them from the old man.
*tries to envision hiding the current edition of Playboy under mattress*
Teenage SD got away with ordering a subscription to Playboy for years by telling his parents it was a tech magazine and the blacked out delivery cover was part of the gimmick. As such, it will always have a special place in my
dresserheart.Teenage SD could have never imagined the day a man in makeup would be Playmate of the Month. I, on the other hand, have grown old and cynical while never underestimating the sheer vindictiveness of the SJW crowd.
Here’s what I don’t get. Playboy is already facing huge financial pressure from free porn on the internet. It’s already a company with some severe financial difficulties. Why are they doing shit like this? Not long ago it was cancelling the nudes. Now it transsexuals. Do they think this is going to appeal to their target market? At all? It’s a private company. So, the decisions they make affect their bottom line personally. Is it some sort of bankruptcy trick?
I can’t wait until they move on from trannies to “body-positive” obese chicks.
Perhaps they’re at the “it’s just crazy enough to work!” stage. Or more likely, the “doesn’t matter what we do now, might as well fuck around a bit” stage.
I’m not sure they have any good moves available.
They were kind of the original “red pill” magazine. I would look in that direction for revenue.
Interesting thought.
By gum Sir, you have the job!
And that’s a strategy that would make some semblance of sense. It would leverage their brand. It wouldn’t alienate their core market. It would allow them to offer their advertisers a venue off the social justice radar. This shit just seems like they’re trying to go bankrupt.
Is it the ad agencies? Are they the ones pushing this? Otherwise I can’t think of a logical way to explain the insanity we’re seeing in publishing more generally.
“At this point, we don’t trust anything these people do.”
Why is Slate referring to itself in the 3rd person?
The media types live in such a sealed bubble that they appear to have no idea just how low the public’s opinion of them is. They just keep spewing lies apparently not knowing that the crowd is rolling eyes, hand waiving, turning and walking away.
this day and age of genderqueer demisexual otherkins choke-jerking in Anne Frank Halloween costumes
*projectile vomits, then faints*
You gotta ease up a bit on the choke part of choke-jerking.
That’s what I hear anyway.
So, Playboy now has a Schröedinger’s Fold for the Playmate of the Month’s Centerfold?
Maybe they’re going to go for a pop up book style.
Better get on this quick.
*Narrows gaze*
Swiss, pile on if you see fit.
*shakes fist and boos*
Mad Magazine’s zany back cover, you mean.
There are plenty of transgender porn and erotica in the world… why bring it to Playboy?
Is Hefner’s idiot daughter still in charge? It seems as if she has been intentionally destroying the Playboy brand for a while.
Pretty sure the internet handled that a while back.
Yes. It hasn’t had any reason to exist for ten-plus years now.
Thinking of a Philly meetup.
Survey is limited to 25 responses, so please only respond if you are really interested:
https://goo.gl/fyXcgP – https://goo.gl/cWpCoQ
That’s actually pretty close to me, I was just in Philly on business 3 weeks ago.
By “close” I mean a 3-4 hour drive :/ I would be down for a DC meet-up, but this is a bit further than I would want to travel (I’m a shut-in anyway).
I would suggest Baltimore, but on Saturday nights i prefer to not get stabbed.
Yeah, at least in Philthydelphia you’re allowed to carry.
There seems to be quite a few of us in the DMV area
I’d be more inclined to overcome my introvert tendencies and go if the location was outside of Philadelphia. As such, I won’t respond to the survey. Though I’ll be watching with some interest.
You don’t have to interact with anyone, other than fellow glibz obviously. Just give icy stares to anyone in the street?
I’m assuming there aren’t that many glibz in center city Philly anyway, Philly is just pretty central to a bunch of places where I know there are glibz. So if this becomes a thing and everyone drives from somewhere else, it could by anywhere in that general area.
I filled out the survey, think I’m the only one so far. Suggested maybe something Just outside Philly, like Conshohocken or KOP, since people outside of Philly but still in the area would probably be more inclined to go somewhere right off the highway rather than trying to navigate the city proper. Doesn’t make much of a difference to me, just my two cents.
Just be careful of traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway.
I’m inclined to attend and will do the survey later. City or western suburbs would be ideal.
I’m only about an hour from Philly
How do we keep in touch about this? I answered the survey. Definitely want to do it.
I voted “fuck you, cut spending” 23 times.
I will skip the survey to save a spot for someone living in the area. If I have time next time I am visiting family in the Philly area, I’d like to meet up with the Philly area glibertarians.
So, going to catch a screening of Wolfman (1941) tonight. Unlike Frankenstein, I don’t think I’ve ever watched this one or the original Mummy all the way through. Should be fun.
Since I’ve got to run – one more pimping of this week’s review: https://youtu.be/d6KgL2zQQfM – seriously it’s a great flick, and at the link I’ve also included the link to Amazon Prime where it’s available streaming (free if you’re a Prime subscriber) with subtitles, as well as a place to buy the region-free DVD.
More exciting – I’ve been in email contact with the director – trying to work out a way to get him some press/funding for his next flick. Guess crowd-funding is harder in Serbia – but I’ll keep trying ;p
Its not bad. I watched it on Svengolie a few weeks ago.
The NYT is bad, but WaPo is just pathetic. The in-house newsletter of the Deep State.
Democracy dies in darkness.
It sure is dark under that pillow the WaPo is trying to smother it with.
Oh they have been that way for a while now. Who owns that fuckin’ commie rag anyway?
*Ducks it*
Holy fuck, no wonder.
https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/921092736526274561
General Kelly last adult in the room. Bashes Trump and media
Man, they are SO invested in the idea that Kelly is going to snap and quit and give them lots of juicy soundbites…..and it never happens.
“Playboy debuts its first transgender Playmate”
I had a link to that in the last post under “College Girl or Model”. I demand a hat tip
Last time I tried to demand a hat-tip, I got a cat butt instead.
Be careful, SF has the animated gifs and he’s not afraid to use them.
I demand satisfaction
“Fuck you, you liar”
– John
Fishing for catbutt is just sad, dude.
No. It’s perfectly natural.
See, there is no retort to the genius that is John. You’ve been ‘John’d
“Half-wit”
“I thought you were smarter than this, but maybe not”
None of those words are misspelled in amusing ways. You guys are doing it rong.
“Everything you say is wrong.
Everything you believe is wrong.
You are not fit for rational discourse.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHDBhnAUJE
From the tranny? It’s really up to you two whether you get satisfied.
And in what way you are satisfied….
Placement on a nice cheeseburger?
*narrows fat*
Seriously? Seriously? This tripe is filed under “technology”?
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/10/the_fake_melania_meme_is_absurd_but_somehow_plausible.html
I decompressed and didn’t pay attention to the news for a bit. Re-reading Snow Crash. I see that I’ve been missing the hot stories like this one.
I think I should really just go back to Snow Crash.
Going through the audio book a second time – the unabridged one from itunes is pretty solid. Not sure about picking up Diamond Age at some point (on audio, I already own/read the book).
Not just technology, but “technology/technology”.
Tricknology!
You don’t think Melania v. 2.1 is advanced technology??
I want Trump to reveal that he has a fleet of body doubles. Preferably by “appearing” in multiple foreign countries simultaneously.
This timeline couldn’t handle that much kek.
It’s already starting to fall apart.
https://twitter.com/thetolerantman/status/920562398074933248
I want them to reveal the real Melania died of a cocaine overdose in 2010 and has been replaced by a fleet of Melania-bots* procured by Jared Kushner, totally unbeknownst to Donald.
*Melania-bots powered by Google.
My husband and I used to joke when Villaragosa was the mayor here and constantly doing PR stunts, that there were Antonio Bots
“oh look its Antonio 154 filling a pothole while Antonio 324 is giving a speech!”
That revelation would cause so much screeching at Mountain View that the bay area would be wiped out in a tsunami.
Make it happen.
Actually there are millions of Trumps and they are living in Democrats’ heads.
Trump is just a costume everybodys’ dads put on for the election season holiday, he’s based on an old Dutch legend, Wuntertruump. Honey, how’d that song go again?
The people demand tits and tits they shall get!
http://archive.is/MGIWo
Woo hoo!
#6 or #28
More tits
“The people demand tits
and tits they shall gets!”:
That’s like a dirty Dr. Seuss line
So Shel Silverstein.
YEAH!
Nice tits, but too many tats.
#40 is excluded from the orgy.
Okay, I’m annoyed.
I have flash drives from HP of 128gb that can take a fat32 formatting. I know because that’s what they showed up with.
SanDisk flash drives of 16 and 32 gb take fat32.
Why does that disappear as an option for 64 and 128gb sandisk flash drives?
I want to know because my car can’t read exFAT.
Stop fatShaming those flashdrives, shitlord
I’m not. A thin solution doesn’t work for getting my audiobooks into my car sound system.
Hense why exFAT is unacceptable.
*golf clap*
This is when we need John, he knows about this FAT stuff
*narrows gaze*
LOL @ Myself
Windows doesn’t want to Reformat them FAT32, but out of the box that’s what they have on them.
Problem solved.
You’re so proud of yourself FAT SHAMER!
*runs from room sobbing*
Microsoft put an artificial limitation in the Windows Disk Format tool that disables FAT32 for drives larger than 32GB even though it can handle 2TB drives (and larger, with different sector/cluster sizes). They want you to use exFAT because FYTW.
You can, however, create FAT32 volumes larger than 32GB using other, third-party tools or Linux (mkfs.vfat).
Well that explains that.
I do have a linux file server that can be used if I really need to reformat these. It just requires craling under the desk to get to its USB ports.
So?
So? Narcissism is a common trait among billionaires.
Okay, that’s a new one. How does this prove he hired a body-double Melania?
Melania *is* pretty delicious.
Speaking of movies, I watched one called The Boys last night. English, 1962. Very good courtroom drama.
TW- no cgi
“TW- no cgi”
My simple Murrican mind cannot comprehend this.
Single-player videogames are going to die
Its really too bad, but who didn’t see this coming? With rising development costs, wide proliferation of special price-cutting deals, the extreme popularity of never-ending multiplayer games or single player games that focus on grinding more than story, the rise of loot boxes… it was bound to happen. The most important thing is the rising development costs.
I still like my games to be single-player. Mainly because, as I get older, I just don’t have nearly as much time for these games — which makes me bad at multiplayer. Hopefully this is just a trend, but I don’t see things looking good for the future of the AAA single-player space.
Me too. I hate human interaction. If I wanted to interact with other humans I wouldn’t be playing a video game.
Yet you comment here. What does that say about us?
Mysanthropes agregate.
I comment here when I’m not playing video games. But, yes, I should have been clearer.
Been playing through Skyrim again. Posioned bow murder FTW!
I go thru phases when I’ll play games and when I completely avoid them. I haven’t really enjoyed a game since Fallout: NV.
Did you not dig FO:4? I really enjoyed it. Especially the crafting and weird gun mods.
It was entertaining, but not engaging. I liked the anarchic qualities to NV. There was no implicit judgement.
And the voice dialog sucks. Text was better.
I’m still slogging through FO4. I get bored after a couple sessions and switch to something else. To me at least, it lacked something Fallout NV had (which I greatly enjoyed playing). Or maybe I just find managing the settlements tedious and taking away from the gameplay.
Up-armor and up-weapon the settlers and they take care of themselves more often.
I liked the resource management aspect. I can easily see how one could find it tedious, though.
It was entertaining, but not engaging. I liked the anarchic qualities to NV.
If you prefer NV and already own FO4, you should get the Far Harbor DLC for 4. The main storyline therein has greater flexibility and feels more like NV than the base game.
I have an informal survey of people who liked New Vegas – did you play the isometric fallout games?
Not really.
Huh. I liked 3 and 4 (3 more than 4), but New Vegas was the kinda “meh” title to me. The mechanics that seemed designed to spite my playstyle were those resurrected from the isometric titles. So I’ve been trying to figure out if there is a distinct element that defines the subsets of players beyond personal opinion.
Though I agree, the voiced protagonist was a net negative, and artificially limited the number of options per interaction.
It was more about the story. NV had no built in preference for how you should proceed as opposed to the Bethesda produced versions which obviously pushed you towards being the savior of the world.
As you can guess, I nuked Caesar’s Legion and the NVR, then I dominated the Strip ruthlessly.
Fallout has a story?
Lots of them. At least NV did.
I know, I know. I forgot my [sarc] tags. Most of what I did in Fallout was faffing about and poking around in places looking for things to explore.
Fallout 3 and 4 didn’t have much of a story. NV did – one that you could actually influence, too – and that’s why the community has a lot of love for it.
I remember one of my big gripes – the fish hook shaped railroad for low level players. I was trying to get to New Vegas, but the deathclaws on the main route and in every feasible pass through the mountains forced me to walk all the way to that pointless scripted scene at the village in the south when I did not want to go there.
I didn’t even know that sequence was there, I just did not want to take that route, but they did everything they could to say “stay on the rails” it soured me early on.
Then increasing damage reduction made high volume of small caliber rounds ineffective against enemies.
Loved New Vegas. Loved Fallout 3 with the New Vegas gloss (Tale of Two Wastelands FTW.) Couldn’t play FO4 when it came out due to my rig sucking, and now that I have one that’ll run it, everything I’ve read about FO4 makes me think I’d hate it on sight.
Too bad, as I like the setting immensely. Loved FO and FO2 as well. Restoration Project for FO2 is great, but IIRC, does not play well with Windows 10.
I wish there had been more ways to interact with House beyond puppetry or disconnection.
And, yeah, I did play the isometric games and loved them. Sad that it seems that I primarily run into people who love 3 the most. Fucking Bethesda.
Anyone else play the original Brotherhood of Steel aka X-Com Post-Apocalypse? I had a lot of fun with that even if it was really slow sometimes and horribly buggy till they got the first patch out. The whole trek through the midwest with different vehicles, and party classes was great IMO – worked really well.
Did they ever release a cleaned up/patched/updated version for Steam?
Yes. I couldn’t get through because of the crashes.
Jesus Christ! What this man said.
I detest multiplayer games. I want to play at my own pace, for my own goals, without having to work with a bunch of people that are either much better than I am (the majority) or much worse. If I want to interact with people, I talk to you all, or I actually do things that involve meeting people.
Then again, I don’t buy many games, and those I buy, I play the hell out of (still playing a heavily modded Baldur’s Gate) so I am probably not the market to go after.
This why I play mostly sports games.
I only play single-player for two reasons – I don’t have to worry about other people (their schedules, whether or not the randoms online are extra-assholish, etc)
and
the actual content is usually better.
Sucks. I think the last multiplayer game I played was TF2 in 2008 for one afternoon…..oh yeah, I did play Defiance for a few weeks as a free to play MMO for Xbox 360 – I might try something like that again…maybe Destiny? (at least I don’t have to do anything on my laptop).
I get it. In the early days, a game would be done by a team of four or so people. There would be a minimal budget. It would be finished in a few months, and sell at the retail price (NOT adjusted for inflation) of sixty bucks.
When I was in the industry, teams were about twenty people, budgets were creeping up into the 6 or 7 figure range. They would take a year or two of development time, and sell at the retail price of(NOT adjusted for inflation) sixty bucks.
Today, a high end title will have a team of sixty people, a budget of 30 or 40 million, take three or four years to create and sell for the retail price of sixty bucks.
So, something had to give.
Uhh, $60 is a recent price.
I remember $40 and $50 both being standard “New Game Retail” prices for the top range. I remember swearing I’d wait for a sale each time it got raised, but never actually following through on the titles I really wanted.
Ultima 2 was released at a 60 dollar price point back in….shit, I can’t recall what year I bought it. Richard Garriot wrote it by himself in a closet.
I’m sure there was some flexibility in price, but the point remains.
I burnt some time on Ultima Online back in the 90’s. MMO was fun until all the Koreans got online at the same time.
As a member of that team, I apologize for all the hours wasted.
No kidding? Wow.
The neighborhood I was living in was one of the first to get cable modems in California. We were kings online for a while, until deployment caught up with infrastructure.
Pretty neat we have a few game developer glibs.
Can’t find a flyer for NES era but the 60 price point was definitely a thing in the SNES era
http://www.huguesjohnson.com/scans/ebspring93/EBSpring93_14_SNES.jpg
I do think there was a slight price drop to average around the 50s as the console industry moved from carts to discs but raised back to 60 around the 7th generation again.
Someone cited EGM issue 243 at Giantbomb that said the following:
NES Games: $30-$50
SNES: $50-$60
N64: $50 (although certain games launched for more)
PS2: $50
Xbox 360: $60
I’m not sure if this is accurate but it definitely matches what I remember going back to the N64. I can’t link it since my work computer blocks all gaming websites (except for games beat for some reason).
Data for the only important platform is missing from your list.
I’m a PC Gamer.
Me too, but we both know that the price point has fluctuated a lot. Remember when Doom 3 released in 2003 for $65? That extra $5 caused a lot of backlash. And we’re still sitting at $60 today (if you ignore all the DLC stuff).
No, I bought Half-Life 2. I didn’t even pay any attention to Doom 3 that year.
I think my PC couldn’t run Doom 3, but could run HL2, and even years later Doom 3 still wouldn’t run on what I owned. By the time I got a rig that it would run on, it just looked like a sad, bloated old game.
Half life 2 came out in 2004, more than a year later, but that wasn’t really my point… I was just pointing out that there was controversy over a price increase over $60 at least as early as 2003, and we’re still a team the same price point.
Then why the hell did I join Steam in 2003?
I have no idea. Couldnt start downloading half life 2 until august 2004
Oh.
At the time I was playing about with texture modding for Day of Defeat and CounterStrike, and September 2003, the games refused to run without the Steam client, even for a private game. Half-Life 2 was the first game I played for real on the platform, which is why I have to two so closely associated. My account just predates the silver box by a year.
Um, TK, some awkward news… Doom 3 came out in 2004 too. A few months ahead of HL2, but not in 2003.
Looks like I got it wrong. How about that. My memory is not what it used to be.
Either way, none of this was really my point. My point about prices still stands.
Piling on with my games: Wing Commander: Prophecy and TIE Fghter were both $60 I think Baldur’s Gate was too.
Yeah, I’ve pointed this out to some of the people that get really pissed at developers for introducing DLC, season passes, $100 gold editions, etc. I’m still not on board with loot boxes that provide pay-to-win items for reasons I’ve expressed here before. But that being said, you’re absolutely right, the $60 price tag hasn’t increased in quite some time.. in fact, I remember a few N64 games that launched around $70.
I hope that single-player games stick around (I suspect they will), but they will be largely reduced to a “AA” space, with smaller teams working on smaller 5-6 hour games rather than these large AAA 15-hour experiences.
Open-world single-player games are likely to stick around for quite some time, especially if Bethesda’s paid-mods stuff ends up making them a lot of money.
Look a new big games like overwatch and pubg. They don’t even have plots. Blizzard tried to shoehorn one into overwatch but honestly the game would play the same with numbers instead of character names.
If the goal was a game that people will keep coming back to and play for a long time the options are replay-ability (RNG/multiple storylines/multiplayer) or constant content. Starwars roguelike doesn’t sound like something a studio would want to bet on. Multiple storylines is considered risky because it’s basically making N many single storyline games with the added downside that people don’t always replay for different endings (and some people don’t like the idea of no canonical ending). Which leaves multiplayer focused and constant content focused. Usually paired together. So yeah linear storyline game is literally the opposite of what they wanted and if they had known that they shouldn’t have greenlit the project in the first place. What a waste.
Also why the fuck does the first line in my quoted section not have a link to the damn blog post?
Funny, the title with the most hours on my profile by a fucking colossal margin is Skyrim. 600 hours ingame, no other players. Perhaps a sandbox full of faffing about capacity has some appeal. And last I saw Bethesda was still shipping new copies…
It has more to do with monetizing different parts of the game, the publisher largely only cares about enjoyment over long periods of time in-so-much as it affects their profit. Not that its necessarily a bad thing, just that its logical. They need to offset rising development costs that are making linear single player games a risky proposition.
I know it’s a risky proposition. That’s why I am saying it was phenomenally stupid to start the project with a studio who are specialized in linear single player games when the publisher goal was games as a service.
That’s a shame, I really only play single player or couch co-op games. I even played solo on supposed to be multiplayer games like Diablo 2.
I did play DOTA occasionally years ago when it was still a custom game on Blizzard’s server. I tried one of the new ones and those people are fucking crazy. Can’t even pick your character without 3 kids shrieking at you about picking the wrong one for a 20 minute game with strangers.
I have played quite a lot of Dota but I haven’t for a while because, yeah, the playerbase is fucking vile. I’ve gone for long stretches of play just muting everyone preemptively. My favorite are the people whose temper tantrum finally peaks at the end of a 50-55m winnable game, and instead of just grouping and ending they throw it because they got into some retarded slapfight with another player 45 minutes ago over laning or whatnot.
There is also the fact that my mechanics atrophy unless I play 1-3 games a day and I have neither the time or the inclination to do so. Coming back and getting back into the swing of things means I lose 80% of my games until something clicks again and I win 80% until I reach closer to my practiced skill level. Not a very fun experience.
Usually I come back but this is actually the longest break I’ve had since Dota 2 was available.
There have been way too many single-payer only or single-player primarily hits lately for that prognostication to carry much weight. We might see “AAA publishers” give up on single-player, whores that they are, but other studios aren’t going to let that market go uncaptured, never mind the indie outfits.
^This.^
And even AAA developers won’t abandon single player games entirely. The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Witcher, and Assassin’s Creed series all prove that single player AAA titles are still profitable, although that may indicate that AAA single player games will gravitate towards the open-world genre and away from the linear story-telling genre, leaving that for the indie devs.
This is why I play Spiderweb Software games pretty much exclusively.
Single person games aint going anywhere. There are tons of new ones on steam. A tecent one i like, that does have multi as a DLC, is Craft the World.
Well I guess I can nix the idea of a Glibs Rocket League team based on all these comments.
Single player games won’t die…they will just be limited to mobile devices since the platform the developers.
Personally I can’t stand what passes for a game on mobile. Either its a goofy thing like we used to see done in Flash, some lame ass attempt at an MMO or RTS, or a really crappy film tie-in.
MMOs were my thing for about 14 years. Didn’t play anything else because MMOs don’t really allow an adult to play anything else while also fulfilling family obligations.
UO for 3 years, AC for 4 years, WOW for 7 years (with a 1 year break during vanilla)
I finally kicked that habit and I’m happy for it. They became way too tedious.
I still prefer multiplayer, but now its limited to Diablo 3 with a coworker. Benefit is, gaining power is fast, and you can pick it up or stop it at will w/o really feeling like you are falling behind since the seasons are reset every 2-3 months.
Mmos became too much of a job. I hated how WoW would fuck around with the currencies. And the constant expansion.s. i’d finally get some decent gear and Bam, it was useless.
MMOs have always been very job like. To be honest I think they used to be much much worse. Over the years game designers have made MMOs much more casual friendly. Might seem like I’m contradicting myself but high level end game (where I wanted to be) is of course not casual friendly, even if the rest of the game is.
In UO for example I spent a good 48 hours or so of game time trying to get the last few tenths of a point of taming skill for Grand Master so I could reliably tame dragons. Over and over and over standing in a swamp looking for giant toads and bulls to tame. That was in addition to the 150 hours I spent getting the skill almost to grand master level. Not to mention the hours working on other complimentary skills necessary for the character. It was a 4 month project for me to start a new character and build it into a successful animal tamer…and that was at a time when I really could spend 4-6hrs every weekday day playing, and almost all day on weekends.
There’s nothing like that sort of grind in WoW, especially these days. 36 hours of purpose driven game play is all that’s needed to get into the first tier of an expansion’s raids.
“Single-player games are dying” is the new “PC gaming is dying”.
Not gonna happen, there are way, WAY too many people who aren’t interested in multiplayer games for the SP market to just disappear. Might the current giants in developing and publishing start to ignore the single-player market? Maybe. There are plenty of smaller players in the market who will be happy to take up the slack. Then again, there are still giant megabucks to be made by giant publishers even in single-player (GTA 5?), so even those guys have a reason to stick around.
As far as OMG games costs so much to make now, something has to give – not buying that either. Yes, gigantic publishers pour out a shit-ton of money, a bunch of which is for their bullshit ad campaigns and other giant-company overhead. But it’s fucking software, man – software technology drives up per-human productivity in game development just like it does in any other endeavor, especially industries that are almost purely software. A team of 10 guys can crank out what used to require 50 people less than 10 years ago (all numbers made up but I’m pretty sure they must be correct).
Also, that analysis ignores strategy games. Not that you couldn’t have multi-player versions of games such as Europa Universalis, Civilization, Galactic Civilizations, etc, but you sure as hell couldn’t do them as MMOs.
Now strategy games, those really aredying.
Just kidding, mostly. As someone who has a fondness for PC strategy games going back 30 years now, I feel like the selection has always been a but thin compared to more popular genres — but that also proves my point that the market is big enough that even niche interests get some really damn good games.
Well those games all have an MP option, but I couldn’t imagine trying to play EU or Civ multiplayer, just due to how long any individual game can take.
Of course those games have figured how to monetize themselves and keep people paying by offering a ton of DLC. Civ 6 isn’t even a year old and already has 6 DLCs. And EU4 and CK2 would cost about ~$300 if you bought all the DLC at full price.
Badolph – I think the (large) niche, combined with the paucity of titles works in devs favor, to an extent. Especially for updates to existing titles. They know so long as they don’t fuck up, they can count on X revenue.
thrak – agreed about MP. I used to play strategy board games with friends, and we never even bothered to check if our shared computer games had it.
“”Making sense of ___________“”
This is how headlines which are bad for democrats begin
its meant to be understood as “how to think about this in a way that deflects away from the details, and instead focuses on the motives of the messengers”
Translation: here’s a comforting way to rationalize something that upsets your worldview.
“Playboy debuts its first transgender Playmate”
I’m assuming it’s not much of a departure from the lab-created, molded-plastic mannequins featured in Playboy for decades.
Seriously.
They’ve been moving away from that lately, esp. since the return of the centerfold after their run of no-nudes. So this is a weird back-step in their less-artifice stance.
You say back step they say added bonus.
I mean, look at this poor girl. They didn’t even get her a nose job. (SFW, just a PB cover)
https://blogs-images.forbes.com/susannahbreslin/files/2017/02/elizabeth-elam.jpg?width=960
That I can go for.
Who? Playboy? They are still around?
Not sure if KK is on this afternoon, but your recommendation of Mindhunter was spot-on. My girlfriend and I started it last night and we watched 7 episodes in a row. Fantastic recommendation. That show is simply chilling to the bone.
Ditto here. My wife binged it in a couple of days; I’m almost half-way through myself.
Bill Tench is my spirit animal, or something to that effect. It’s pretty good.
New gun control measures being considered…. In Britain.
British consider banning 50 caliber and lever release rifles.
Don’t worry, they’ll totally achieve utopia this time.
Even if you wanted to shoot something up that just seems so, impractical.
What’s the purpose of this? I thought their laws were already perfect and there’s no crime in the UK? Isn’t that what the progs insist?
FIL says I think i have a beer you never tried look in the fridge. It’s a Guiness Blonde. Hmm Untappd has it at 3.22 can’t be that bad.
Bleh I’m dying. This is awful
I use that to bake bread.
The cheddar cheese and flour cover the flavor.
That one is terrible. I wish Guinness just stuck to Guinness.
Next you’ll be saying there shouldn’t be jelly donut-flavored Oreo cookies, or strawberry Kit Kats.
No, those are awesome. Guinness’ offshoots have all reminded me of the girls I dated in high school: Nice body, fantastic head but it somehow manages to leave too much to be desired.
Bitter, gassy.
I larfed.
I’m not really a huge fan of Guinness anyways. Never have been. So many better stouts out there.
Guinness really needs to be on draft, at a place that specializes in pouring it. And will take the time to draw a proper pint. I like McElroy’s in Houston. There used to be a great Irish bar in Dallas that poured a great one, but they’re closed.
In bottle, this anniversary one they just came out with, 11.2 oz, from Ireland, 6.1% IIRC, is pretty nice.
I’ve yet to try from a place that specializes in it, but places where they don’t the draft is not great. The nitrocans have yet to fail me.
Pretty much in Ireland.
^
I don’t remember it being awful when I was given it for free last night by busty Guinness reps in skirts at a bar. Just calmly mediocre. I have to admit the totality of the circumstances might have clouded my judgement slightly, however.
I used to like Harp, but I haven’t seen it for years now.
“Even Racist Nazis Like George W Bush Think Trump Goes Too Far”
….
….actually if you read the story – but who does THAT anymore? – it turns out GWB was saying something as bland and meaningless as “Racism is bad”, and the press decided that it was an *implicit* dig at the current administration.
Of course, that ‘definition’ is entirely contrived by the media.
I love how we’re never to generalize…except when they say it’s okay to do so.
I generalize a lot.
It saves having to get to know people I’ll never actually meet again.
Your whole self screams to be loved.
I need some help over here, anybody got some love to spare for Uncivil?
I want to live in a world where I don’t have to defend Trump. I had hoped, after the election, passions would die down. I could go back to my normal role of complaining about a knuckleheaded president I didn’t even vote for.
When my gal started knitting a pussy hat, I knew I wouldn’t have that luxury for another eight years.
Thank god I make booze for a living. I couldn’t deal with this country sober.
“When my gal started knitting a pussy hat”
That’s rough
How do YOU know how her pussy hat feels hmmmmmm?!
Dry and scratchy.
Lubrication is key. I believe there is a guy on here that can get you bulk.
I used to wonder why I’ve always been attracted to women who were on the opposite side of the political spectrum. I worry, sometimes, if I just don’t like screwing people who support the people who screw me during tax season. Is my thirty years of dating nothing but a prolonged hate fuck?
You and me both. Every Libertarian woman I’ve made moves on has shot me down or disappeared.
You aren’t fooling anyone, you know.
They weren’t from Canada.
I can’t deal with the sun rising sober.
Hmmmm….my wife, on the other hand, has recently blossomed into a full-blown Trumpette. It’s been kind of odd – I don’t think she even voted for him. I suppose it’s just a reaction to the nonstop caterwauling about him she gets at work and from some of her social circle. She’s always been a contrarian bitch…..after all, it’s a big reason why I married her.
in the immortal words of Humphrey Bogart:
“The whole world is 3 drinks behind“
Another chapter in the continuing saga of the left eating their own and projecting:
right-wing-trolls
I love it.
This is what victory over ISIS looks like.
New York Times occasionally does things right. The real question here, to me, is whether or not this reaffirms the military strategy in the Iraq War in some perverse sense. That’s not a question of whether you agree with the causes of it, or that it was worthwhile. I’m not sure if America getting over its Vietnam syndrome, if that’s even real and not just something for the left to exploit when out of power, is a good thing. But the entire notion of an unwinnable war where you can’t beat some ragtag peasants who refuse to bow was always nonsense. Vietnam was winnable. Any war is winnable until the Reptillians come. Iraq may never be the beacon of democracy in the Middle East that the neocons jizz over, but with help its security forces withstood a pretty big test. Just like South Vietnam probably could have if not for Nixon’s domestic troubles.
I have a hard time seeing how the reason a problem exists is the solution to the problem.
Warhawks and Retro-Bushites can hem and haw til they keel over, but ISIS wouldn’t exist without The Gulf War II.
but ISIS wouldn’t exist without The Gulf War II.
You just gave Hannity a heart attack.
Good.
You can argue the merits of Saddam in power vs. ISIS existing, but he would have never let those idiots run loose like that.
ISIS wouldn’t exist without the invasion of Iraq. But you end up with quite a few hypotheticals that historians will play with for quite some time. And I suspect that Bush is correct, especially after Trump. He will, in the eyes of mainstream history, probably be redeemed somehow. Because after a while progressives will come to view him as a big state visionary.
The main question I have is what happens with Afghanistan if not for Iraq. There was always a heavy amount of built up tension in the Middle East waiting to explode. Then we get to the Arab Spring.
Afghanistan wasn’t the pot ready to boil over like Iraq. Simply put, Iraq was only held together by a strong man. Getting rid of him has precipitated and will continue to precipitate broader war in the region. Fucking Brits set this mess up a century ago.
The poster John made a decent point that Hussein would probably be dead by now, and all of the chaos we see would have happened anyway. Doubt either of his sons were capable like the old man. Then again, Bashir managed to not screw things up in Syria for the first few years after Hafez went to Hell.
Still a phenomenally stupid idea to invade Iraq.
We could have stopped the rise of ISIS by killing the detainees from Camp Bucca that made up their leading cadre. Doubt that would have been a palatable solution though.
COIN is messy. Best to not get involved, other than to sell stuff.
If Iraq is a multitude of factions, Afghanistan was exponentially worse. It was thousands upon thousands of little wars subsumed by a couple of larger wars. Afghanistan was far more tribal and divided. The plan was a limited troop commitment while relying on some ridiculous notion of a united Northern Alliance to liberate everyone else. A sober plan would have recognized the deep divisions and the tougher stuff the people involved were made of. Iraq may have been a bigger beacon, but it’s hard to tell as there were always far fewer Americans there to kill.
This really needs Swissy’s input, and others who have been there, but, if the US wasn’t willing to root out the sanctuaries for the Taliban and other AGMs in KP and FATA, then I don’t see how anything but a punitive expedition would have any chance of success.
And I still think that UBL was intentionally allowed to get out. Relying on the Pakistani army to lock down the few passes out of KPP instead of having airmobile and 10th Mtn do it, was de facto letting UBL, Mullah Omar, and Ayman Zawahiri take a walk. Too bad SBS wasn’t allowed, allegedly, to take the shot they had on UBL running away.
Yeah…as long as the ISI exist, and Saudi money exists…the Talib will be around in some form (or the Haqqanis, etc). Best thing would have been to waste everyone (including Pak handlers in AF) in 2001. Let the Northern Alliance guys take over and say “you just saw what we can do….next time we have to come back, it will be worse.” And then leave. Also, no more $ for the Paks if they as much as gave one guy one minute of sanctuary, training or succor.
Awww, c’mon, Swiss, you can’t do that because something something Pottery Barn.
Well, if historians love nothing else, it’s a a revisionist story. This isn’t going to be a question that is going to go away. I wanted to separate the military strategy itself (at least in the latter part of the conflict – the opening stages were, in my view, completely bungled) from the politics. But that won’t happen. Most people don’t desire or have any need to see things through the prism of military strategy. Which is a good thing.
But from there we end up with a discussion of what should have happened after 9/11. The Bush administration seemed to always treat Afghanistan as a prelude to something else. Likely because of Neocons. We made minimal troop commitments and always had our eyes on something seemingly sweeter.
No just a group identical to ISIS that murders the same people.
I guess engaging in a fantasy where 9/11 caused terrorists is necessary to square the holes in whatever retarded ideology you’ve embraced.
There have been and will continue to be endless Islamic groups interested in violence against the US and other countries incompatible with Islam. That was the cause of 9/11 not the effect. It’s undeniable and engaging in spin is only effective at fooling yourself.
Winning the Vietnam War would have been straightforward: declare the violations of SV sovereignty by the NV to be acts of war, declare war on North Vietnam, invade North Vietnam, depose the government of North Vietnam. Probably would have led to a Korea 2.0 scenario with the Chinese invading, which would have hopefully not taken the US by surprise this time. But you might have ended with Korea 2.0, with the SV being a prosperous modern nation, and the NV being a batshit crazy commie kingdom.
The myth of the invincible VC is the most enduring one of Vietnam. The VC were cadre infiltrated and suported from the North. There was not some kind of widespread popular movement to overthrow the SV government which triumphed in a glorious people’s struggle. SV was conquered by the regular forces of the NV following the withdrawal of American support.
If someone is standing on in their yard chucking rocks at your house, do you build an elaborate rock catching net and give your kids helmets and padding so they can play in peace, or do you cross the property line and beat the ever loving fuck out of the guy?
This is an argument that is lost to the general public. And, I suspect, military planners. North Vietnam only survived because of the threat of China and a Korea Pt. 2. And yet, it became far more contentious as a result of attempting to avoid such a scenario. Iraq was a fundamentally different question. It was an actual insurgency. Yet, the media did everything to paint it as another Vietnam from 2004 on. Whether the war was right or wrong, it just wasn’t the same.
Yep. Invade in ’65 up the Red River Valley and call Ho and Giap’s bluff of inviting Red China into the theater. We’d just gotten done killing Chinese by the shipload in ’53, and it’s unlikely the Chinese would get that much help from the Soviets this time.
Or dick around for the next 10 years, kill another 50,000 Americans, and watch Vietnam fall. Though I guess the US could have kept bombing the living shit out of the NVA every time they tried to move south, a la 1973 Offensive. No reason it couldn’t have worked again in 1975.
And I may be thinking of the 1972 attempted invasion by the North. Though was there one in ’73 too?
1972 Easter Offensive.
” And yet, it became far more contentious as a result of attempting to avoid such a scenario.”
Limited war is borderline immoral (short of general exchange of WMDs). If a dispute is worth going to war over, then it is incumbent on the warmaking parties to seek victory as quickly as possible. The Korean War was far less destructive than the Vietnam War, because MacArthur held to the old fashioned idea that you fought a war to win the war.
But Robert McNamara and all those smart boys knew they knew a lot more about war than some fuddy duddy collection of career military men. They were going to have this splendidly managed modern war that was not too hot, but not too cold.
^This^ and it is what we are dealing with now.
The myth of the invincible VC is the most enduring one of Vietnam.
This. Assuming my history teacher’s interpretation of events was correct, they were nearly wiped out after the Tet Offensive. Which made sense why Saigon didn’t fall until several years later.
The greatest lesson learned from Vietnam may have been how to handle the media. The American military may have learned that one to a better extent after Iraq.
There were additional constraints in terms of rules of engagement and the White House micromanaging missions that made Vietnam especially fucked up. Not allowed to blow up an under construction SAM site but a few weeks after it’s operational then comes the order for a wild weasel mission.
There’s a bit of disconnect in most people’s view of the war. US ground forces pretty much withdrew from the battles starting in 1971 and were gone altogether by early 1973. Saigon didn’t fall until April 1975. RVN was able to hold their own well enough against the DRV until Congressional Dems cut off aid in 1974. North Vietnam, of course, continued to be well supplied by the Soviet Union. South Vietnam started running low on ammunition and fuel, neutering their edge in arms and manpower. Once the NVA spring offensive started in 1975, the entire country collapsed with astonishing speed.
IOW, it had jack shit to down with the Viet Cong, who had been mostly killed off by the end of 1968.
LOL @ Myself
How dare you laugh? Wallow in your victimhood.
Seems to me like Playboy had a nude trans sexual (full operation trans) decades ago. I remember seeing pics.
Yeah. 1981. Year I graduated HS.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3172524/Caroline-Cossey-transgender-woman-pose-Playboy-reveals-life-fell-apart-gender-identity-suddenly-exposed.html
The biggest question that no one wants to ask is whether the photo spread will be tucked or untucked.
Does it feature a pit and a basket of lotion?
“I’d fuck me” /Wild Bill
Modern Journalism
WTF
BuzzFeed. I mean, I guess you actually have Jim Davis, the author, as a primary source rather than what I highly suspect are occasionally totally fictitious anonymous sources spewing stuff that’s revealed to be totally bogus not long after…
I have no problem with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI
This is everything. God bless the people who make this stuff.
Now that my search history includes “Garfield John Drinks Dog Semen” I can understand how the strip could be interpreted that way.
Thanks for clearing that up! This definitely isn’t the same old tired defense you harpies have been regurgitating every time there’s been an article published this year calling you on your mob antics. Because ganging up on someone, be it an individual or a publication, and pursuing them with pitchforks and torches and threats of professional and personal ruin until they agree to alter their opinion of something and retract anything nice they ever said about it because you consider it not woke enough is DEFINITELY not censorship. And getting publishers to pull a book you don’t like is also not censorship, because the government didn’t do it! Obviously.
By the way, we are also allowed to refuse service to Trump, Republicans and pro-lifers. But you better fucking bake that gay wedding cake!!
Technically correct the best kind of correct, especially when you really don’t have an argument.
I’ve been reading around in the YA-o-sphere since you starting talking about this stuff. It’s like a deranged experiment in giving larger and larger megaphones in reward for dumber and dumber opinions.
Nailed it.
Seems to be Balph Eubanks all the way down.
It’s amusing how the same people who say things like this then turn around and work themselves into a frothing rage at anyone who doesn’t like the anthem protests. Not people who want them prevented somehow from doing it, but merely people who say “Sure, they can do what they want. It’s their right. I still think it sucks, though”
THAT’S DIFFERENT—PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE THE ANTHEM PROTESTS ARE NAZIS! EVERYONE KNOWS BEING A NAZI AUTOMATICALLY PRECLUDES YOU FROM HAVING RIGHTS OR BEING ENTITLED TO AN OPINION! PREPARE FOR A GOOD PUNCHING!
People have corrupted the banal legal truth that the First Amendment only applies to the government into this bizarre and quixotic notion that censorship is something only the government can do. No, censorship is only illegal when the government does it. Anybody can censor. When somebody accuses you of censorship and you turn around and try to play games with the definition of the word, you’re just adding insult to injury.
AKA leftism’s entire MO
As I’ve said numerous times before, bourgeois values are the new punk rock.
https://spectator.org/harvey-weinstein-michael-moore-and-the-end-of-the-1960s-sexual-revolution/
Can we maybe not connect Michael Moore to anything sex-related?
How about we not connect Moore to anything period?
I’m still surprised some fast food chain hasn’t made him a spokesxerson yet.
http://www.jimcornette.com/now-tomato/heart-attack-grill-phoenixaz
Out.Fucking.Standing.
I still don’t understand how it took this long to finger Weinstein. Its 2017 and now all of a sudden this sort of behavior is bad?
EWWW!!!
They have been doing their best to crank out useful idiots for decades. It never occured to them that what worked elsewhere wont work here.
“Mr. Bezmenov, why are the useful idiots always the first up against the wall?”
“Because when they see the reality of their beautiful world of social justice and equality they wont like it very much. They will become dissidents and dissent cannot be allowed.”
They are supposed to be put up against the wall after the glorious revolution. They cant have that here because people are armed and wont accept it. They cant get the use out of the useful idiots and then dispose of them. Now they are stuck with swarms of useful idiots that must kill and eat something. Naturally they are going to turn on their own.
It is a beautiful sight to see.
That is a fucking excellent piece.
So, i watched the movie “Bag Man” (2014) last night.
don’t.
You can still try “It is Fine! Everything is Fine”.
I don’t feel bad about giving ‘Bag Man’ a try. The actors and performances are all top-notch, for what they are (forgetting DeNiro, who is… sort of ridiculous).
Its just that the script was all setup, no payoff. Its a great premise (“bag man doesn’t know what’s in the bag”), but when you get to the “big reveal” …
….its a big turd. And then, even then, they have so many threads to try and explain, that the movie goes on for another 20 minutes, giving you stupid backstory (at the end!) which just makes things worse and worse.
Imagine The Third Man, if instead of Orson Welles arriving… it turned out to be Tommy Wiseau.
I saw y’all looking for that last night. The trailer’s on YouTube and it looks bizarre. You might have to settle for a River’s Edge rewatch.
I refuse to believe that John Cusack has made a bad movie, Fake Gilmore, sad.
I thought his career ended after Better Off Dead. At least he went out on a high note.
Nah, One Crazy Summer came out the year after Better Off Dead.
Someone’s forgetting Con Air.
Con Air is so terrible it is a masterpiece.
No love for Grosse Point Blank?
Excellent movie.
“I thought it was Scarlett” /one of the comments
Spotify just put this in my ear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/?utm_term=.37218893e790
Eat shit, WashPo. I’m supposed to feel bad that the DEA can’t use their jackboots to stomp over people distributing a legal drug when they can’t manage to get people committing fraud?
The government has already pressured companies into including dangerous amounts of acetaminophen in these pills as is, like some sick reenactment of their prohibition era poisoning of industrial alcohol. I’m not going to feel bad because some government thug with a hate-boner for people getting high no longer has the power to fuck the drug distributors at will in addition to all the other powers those fascists already have.
Fuck these people. Seriously. My father was just in the hospital the other night – he had disc replacement surgery years ago, and now he has two more degenerativeand compressed discs and probably need more surgery. When they discharged him, they gave him….fucking motrin. My mother had to beg and plead with them to give him a decent painkiller since he was in absolute agony. They gave him all of three days worth of vicodin.
He’s a 67 year old man with a serious spinal condition and he gets treated like a junkie off the street. Infuriating.
Strange how that works-I went into an allergist for a persistent cough and I got a lot more Vicodin than that: about two weeks worth. The stuff worked wonders.
Yeah, it’s weird. I’ve been casually offered major pain killers after minor issues (which I turned down), but then you hear about stuff like this. I don’t get it.
I get it, you’re supposed to accumulate them when you have the minor issues, so you’ll have enough for the big stuff!
This guy gets it.
My wife always says I should have said yes so we could keep them for later. I guess she gets it, too.
As usual, the people who really, really need it get screwed, and the smaller doctors will continue to do medically reasonable things because they know they’ll fly under the radar.
God I hate this drug war shit, it makes me furious.
Don’t know what state you’re in, but if he’s not opposed you could try medical cannabis.
Virginia, and I’m pretty sure there is no medical marijuana here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Virginia
I think we’re going to start seeing more and more patients buying black market painkillers off the street, to use for the purpose of painkillers, just because of how ridiculously difficult it is to acquire pain relief from doctors now.
It’s insane. I could acquire virtually any illegal drug in 20 minutes with minimal effort. If I’m in legit pain and want to get a painkiller the legal way, I have to first make an appt, then take time off work, and then play hero worship to the doc while acting all surprised so I’m not accused of being a drug seeker. “Really, you think this might help my agonizing pain? I’m not sure, I really do enjoy the pain. Well if you insist, maybe it’ll help.”
‘I think we’re going to start seeing more and more patients buying black market painkillers off the street, to use for the purpose of painkillers, just because of how ridiculously difficult it is to acquire pain relief from doctors now.’
Already happening and has been for years. I know a guy sitting on 1000, 10mg oxycontin as I type. But he only sells them to friends and family in legitimate pain and only a handful at a time spaced out over a few days. Underground quasi-pharmacists are nothing new.
My gf is in so much pain shes missing school but her neurologist claims the pain is entirely mental so they’re not prescribing her meds. Complete bullshit. She can’t even walk without crutches but oh no she might be getting HIGH!
That’s awful.
I have RA. My docs offered me an infinite supply of any painkiller I want. I refused. They were stunned.
“Look, if this is gonna fall apart *points to body* then this *points to head* is all I have left. No thanks on the dope.”
They were visibly relieved to hear me say that.
reenactment of their prohibition era poisoning of industrial alcohol
Did this practice actually stop? I thought they still added methanol to industrial alcohol to keep it from being consumed.
I believe it’s still ongoing, though I could be wrong. But the concept originated there (near as I can tell) and the statist mind never drops an idea just because it’s never worked before.
The mayor of my city, who is running for governor, is promising to go after the real people responsible … the drug companies. She promises, if elected, to enact a tax on opiods.
Because fuck people who are in pain, amirite?
Question time! I’m finishing up my application to business school – any ideas on what to put in a personal statement? I suspect they’re looking for a bit more than “I’ve grown disgusted with myself for working for the state and want to stop being a leech and start making real money”.
Fuck bitches, get money.
How did you get a copy of my law school application?
I keep giving people this line, “I am in a comfortable position, making a respectable salary and can remain here for the next 20 years or more. The thing is, why would I want to?”
“If you admit me now, you might be seeing a huge endowment later.”
Sent my resume to my friend/former colleague and spoke with my professional advisor (aka dad). We’ll see!!
Good luck.
Good luck!
You could ride around asking girls to take a ride on the pole….star.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a13032734/2020-polestar-1-info-specs/
Is this how I am supposed to know I am getting old? When I think a Volvo looks good? I wonder if I can get it in beige.
It’s not boxy. Subscription only, though. Do they have lootboxes? Can I pay to win the road?
I caught myself walking around the house the other day in boxers, a t-shirt and black knee socks. When I walked through the foyer and say myself in the mirror I was shocked. I looked and said “Well, just shit. shit. shit. shit.”
It sneaks up on you.
hm. it looks like they took a mustang or a charger and shrunk its roof a little.
vaguely reminiscent of the way the 1970-80s Aston Martan V8 Vantage borrowed from American DNA
I think Volvo has grille-problems tho. their historical design language is like the opposite of ‘stylish’. its boxy and utilitarian. but they don’t seem to want to let it go even when doing a more-styled vehicle. if you’re going to compete with luxury sedans, you need to dump the mom-van grille.
*Aston Martin, obviously.
Since I have the time with my shift to freelancing I figured I’d give shameless self promotion a try.
http://blackdogski.com/
*Lights Kristen signal*
Huh. It’s a silhouette of a bald man with a dad-bod on skis. And how’d they get the airliner in there?
You mean the background photo? I’m just a weirdo that presses his phone up to the window when I fly out of Sac.
Anybody watching The Orville? I’ve tried to like it, but so far it’s mostly unfunny derivative crap, with occasional bright spots like the opening scene in the last episode. Also, it’s set in the future but trapped in the 90’s, which is just weird.
I don’t do that much fast food. Every now and then, however, I get a craving for a Big Mac and an ice cold coke. As I’m eating, it brings me back to being a kid when I would take my paper route money and his McDonalds. It’s comfort food. It’s not very good, but it makes me happy.
The Orville reminds me of that. It reminds me of being in my twenties and watching TNG with friends.
The show is a confused mess. It’s not as smart as it wants to be. It’s not as funny as it wants to be. It’s not good TV like it wants to be.
I’ll still watch it, and enjoy the hell out of it.
Yeah – from what I’ve heard, it’s basically Family Trek: The Next Next Generation.
Anyone see this piece about Sally Quinn, WaPo’s DC society maven and self-proclaimed occulticidal maniac?
*Clicks blue-colored words several times*
Nope.
ok wiseguy
There’s a little bit of P1800 in that Volvo Polestar, or whatever it is.
Feels like 5 but its not 3:30…. FML
Did I start drinking too early?
*Looks at clock on living room wall*
Nope. It’s five O’clock.
mental sandbox time
If you made a map of where Taliban attacks happened, that would show roughly where they are. It’s safe to assume they don’t travel long distances to launch attacks.
If you impounded or destroyed all the vehicles (perhaps excepting motorcycles) in suspected Taliban areas, that would cripple them. Without vehicles, they can’t move or attack. And vehicles are easy targets. Most Afghans don’t own one, so it would not inconvenience them personally.
Going after what they leave exposed is easier than trying to root them out.
Yes. That would work for a short time. It is unlikely that the Taliban would leave any vehicles in non-Taliban hands. They would learn quickly and start hiding them, but for a while it would work.
Keep in mind that the Taliban are really the militant wing of the Pashtoon tribe, from what I understand. You are going to have to bring the whole tribe to heel to make this stop.
Again, if we win, what do we win?
Afghanistan and Pakistan would be much safer places without the Taliban. Defeating them would also discourage current and future terrorist groups.
But what do WE win?
That could be said about a lot of places in the world.
If we defeat the Taliban, we don’t have to fight them anymore. The end of the war would mean and end to the war spending.
Do you really think these are new ideas? Not trying to get down on you since you just came in….but we’ve had folks doing this since 2002. Unless we go to Total War or the population decides they don’t want to live in a pre-10th century civilization….it’s probably not going to change in AFG.
I listened to Jordan Peterson’s interview with Camille Paglia, and it was mostly interesting. They’re both full-throated critics of academia, universities, post-modernism, and modern feminism. They spent a good chunk of the podcast lost in the weeds (at least, I was lost) discussing Derrida, Foucault, and what I gather are other luminaries of the post-modernist founding. I don’t know a single thing about post-structuralism, and to be honest, like a lot of philosophy, it sounds like a load of piss to me. But I’m a simple man who enjoys hearing two scholars spend an hour beating the shit out of what passes for intellectualism on the left. If any of this sounds like your sort of thing, you might enjoy his podcast.
The end is much better than the first half because they leave theory behind and start to talk in more real terms.
See, I liked the first half more, for that reason.
There’s something for all of ya.
Apropos of nothing, I (attempt to) submit for your collective enjoyment, some seasonal cat butt. (I’ve never posted an image before. Edit Faerie, please stand by!)
Weeeelllll, that didn’t work. Howyoudodat?
I believe only the mods have image posting powers. Best case, you can link it and the edit faerie will come by and bless your post.
I believe only the mods have image posting powers.
MUHUHUHUWAHA!
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Yeah, its true. You can link to images, however…as RM said.
You must be a member of the Glibertati to post images.
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Did we find Tulpa? That was easy.
We are all Tulpa.
You must be new here. Only mods have embedded img power. You can only post hyperlinks.
Correct you are…
That is a shockingly accurate portrayal of my penis.
Don’t believe these guys, they’re trying to disempower you.
“Insert image” is right there next to “Preview”.
After a brief fling with sanity, Nathan J Robinson returns to the loving arms of derp.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/being-held-hostage-by-rich-people
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“X alone won’t work” doesn’t necessarily mean “X shouldn’t be done,” it might just mean “X shouldn’t be done without also doing Y.” If the argument is “corporations will simply get around this new regulation,” that isn’t necessarily reason not to pass the regulation, it might just be reason to figure out ways to make sure you can enforce it effectively.
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If I say the minimum wage should be raised, you might reply that if we raise it, companies will simply fire employees to keep labor costs steady, and make the remaining employees do more work. And you might be right. But you are also admitting that companies put the preservation of profit above the well-being of their employees, and would happily ruin lives rather than suffer an increase in labor costs.
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There’s also good reason to believe that these arguments are often made in bad faith. That’s because they are always the same, regardless of the empirical facts.
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They may be correct, but it’s also frequently true that the speaker doesn’t really care whether they’re correct, because being a conservative means constantly saying that some proposed change will do no good, is an abomination, and will actually hurt the people you’re trying to help.
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They may be correct, but it’s also frequently true that the speaker doesn’t really care whether they’re correct, because being a conservative means constantly saying that some proposed change will do no good, is an abomination, and will actually hurt the people you’re trying to help.
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So, basically, conservatives and libertarians are right, but it doesn’t count because they’re mean and so is reality.
‘Member when people opposed transgender women in women’s bathrooms? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/19/transgender-wyoming-woman-convicted-sexually-assaulting-10-year-old-girl-in-bathroom.html
today in amusing excuses
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/19/democrat-facing-felony-charges-quits-house-race.html
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A Democratic candidate facing a felony charge of grand larceny has bowed out of the race to challenge Rep. John Faso, R-N.Y.
Steven Brisee, 27, was arrested on Sept. 11 and accused of shoplifting almost $1,500 in merchandise from a Kohl’s department store in Newburgh. He was arraigned and remanded to custody in lieu of $500 bail.
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Brisee claimed to live in the 19th District of New York, which he sought to represent. But the Times Herald-Record reported that the address he declared to be his “doesn’t appear to exist.”
In an email to the Daily Freeman newspaper this week, Brisee said he had “raised rougly $850 and spent roughly $18,000” in his ill-fated campaign.
Brisee did not mention the charges in a statement he tweeted Tuesday. He said that he was on the autism spectrum and explained that “social skills, needed to connect with people, to raise money, and deliver a message, are skills which can’t be learned mechanically.
“I can do and learn a lot of things but sadly sociability will never be one of them,”Brisee concluded. “So that’s enough politics for me.”
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This has to be the first time in history a dem was forced out of an election due to criminal charges. Normally that’s part of their re election campaign.
How many fucking carts do you have to chain together to add up to $1500 of merch at Kohl’s? 4? 5?
Before the sales, coupons and “take an extra….off”? one cart.
$70 belt….after all the above. $14.20.
An excellent point that should be raised by defense counsel.
Or during sentencing. “You are hearby sentenced to 1500 hours of community service. 7 hours after discounts.”
“I should be able to get away with stealing shit because I have ‘autism’.”
“Now if you’ll pardon me, I have to hop a plane to Europe for Autism rehab.”
Elementary School Drops Halloween Because It’s ‘Not Inclusive,’ Replaces It With ‘Black & Orange Day’
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/19/massachusetts-elementary-school-drops-halloween-black-and-orange-spirit-day
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A Massachusetts elementary school canceled its Halloween events and is celebrating “Black and Orange Spirit Day” instead.
The principal of Boyden Elementary School sent a letter to parents informing them that the annual Halloween costume parade was canceled amid concerns over inclusivity and safety.
“The costume parade is out of our ordinary routine and can be difficult for many students. Also, the parade is not inclusive of all the students, and it is our goal each and every day to ensure all student’s individual differences are respected,” the letter read in part.
On Friday, October 20, the school will have a Halloween party after school hours. But October 31 will be a “spirit day,” on which students can wear the colors black or orange, but not costumes.
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Urge to kill, rising.
Costumes, who does that difficult stuff? And not inclusive, sure. Meanwhile, back in the real world: HALLOWEEN SPENDING TO REACH $8.4 BILLION, HIGHEST IN SURVEY HISTORY
Sorry, that’s the wrong headline. $8.4 billion was last year. This year it’s $9.1 billion. The holiday is clearly suffering from its non-inclusiveness.
The school staff will all go as black and orange douchebags.
Ta Nehisi Coates and Donald Trump Powers Activate!
The guy who just died was Zombie Hefner.
Fine….Zombie Zombie Hef.