It’s also worth noting that each frame is an opportunity for player inputs to be registered by the game, so for any sort of game where tight reactions are an important part of gameplay (which is many – particularly fighting and other competitive games), higher framerate can directly translate to more responsive controls.
I can always tell that these developments are coming from China, even without reading the article and even if it’s not in the headline. Then I read the article, it says “in China,” and I’m like 
that’s right.
You pick one! Jesus Christ it was your post in the first place that lead to this whole comment chain! You can’t even pick your own goddamn bullet point? You have got to be fucking with me dawg!
Holy fuck seriously, what orgs are you a part of so I know not to have anything to fucking do with them, then you can talk about “chasing people away from communism.”
Hell, try elaborating that point even. How do you think we are chasing people from communism? Are our shit-posts just too shitty?
We literally do not have downvotes, hence all the replies trying to get somebody to make an actual point.
How can people have this sort of smug self-confidence in their beliefs if they cannot articulate a single point even when directly invited to do so? Literally one of you just make a point and then give a “why”. Preferably make the “why” better than “because I received any negative reception for my vague but obviously antagonistic comment.”
Should the people you’ve gone out of your way to antagonize take you seriously if you actively refuse to even articulate a criticism (even when directly invited to multiple times) and just post vague smug shit?
And look, for all the whining about “dog-piling” and “swarming” that people make about our instance, you can have replies to your comments, or you can have downvotes where nobody expresses an actual criticism and nobody gains anything.
Do you take any negative reception to your comments as proof of whatever point you are trying to make? If you have a criticism to make in a public forum, shouldn’t you reasonably expect a response that might likewise be critical?
This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: Who was right?
In Guatemala, was it Arbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?
Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the d’etente between the Soviets and Washington.
Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported – what the rich countries said, rather than what they did.
That group was annihilated.
Anarcho-libs / “Libertarian Leftists” love movements that maintained their moral purity by failing. As movements they’re relatively easy to defend. Because they never meaningfully took power, they’re never made to deal with the baggage of a real government that exists in a hostile capitalist world. Forever morally pristine and beautiful, in failure and death.
Cussing out zionists on mainstream social media is so frustrating because if you’re even half as edgy as those evil creeps, your comment gets taken down and / or you’re banned.
POV: You’re homeless and about to be robbed by the Governor of California
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I was going to express sympathy for having to serve in a chud government, but reading the comments and learning she’s a zionist causes me to lose all sympathy, and I am now eager to laugh at her misery.
God bless Matt Christman.
Democrats are a bottomless well of excuses. “We had a majority, but we re-created the two-party gridlock between ourselves!”
Other classics:
“We have a majority to extend the eviction moratorium, but not enough people showed up to votes!” (for liberals who don’t understand why this is a bad excuse, “we could have done it but we just fucked off from work that day” is an excuse that gets you fired in any other profession. And it’s not like the expiration of the eviction moratorium was a surprise or something, calendars exist and the date was known)
“We have a majority to pass Biden’s agenda, but the parliamentarian won’t let us!” (this is a bad excuse because the parliamentarian can be unilaterally fired and hired at the whim of the senate majority leader, who was a democrat. And you can’t say “well it would be wrong to set that precedent”, because the republicans already did that shit under Bush)
: “Do you understand how your own government works?”
The only correct answer is “like shit. It works like shit.”
Trump’s main base is hammerhead shark people and jawas, got it.
Oh jeeze, the sudden pressure…
uh … y’all ever hear about Bio-Booster Armor Guyver? Or the two live action adaptations, the first of which blows ass and false-advertises Mark Hamil (of liberalism fame) as the main character, and the second of which (The Guyver: Dark Hero) stars David Hayter (most famous for voicing Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series) as the protagonist “Sean” (the cracker-fication of “Sho Fukamachi”).
The basic idea is that a guy gets implanted with an alien parasite that turns into bio-mechanical armor (the titular “Guyver”), but there’s this evil corporation of shape-shifting mutants / aliens that also want it, so the plot basically turns into a mix of X-Files but also sometimes he turns into a fucking robot-alien man and explodes monsters with his titty-cannons.
EDIT: The first half of the older anime adaptation (by good ol’ MANGA home video!) is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWiPz9C7tmq7-Rj2KR7M4EQDb-U0GqBMh
I’m aging into being torn about being old, but also being excited at the prospect of introducing “the youth” to cool old shit they don’t know about.
Wendy Hoopes voiced three separate roles on that show: Jane Lane (pictured), Quinn (Daria’s sister) and Daria’s mother Helen.
I looked it up recently because I thought she might also be the voice for Poison Ivy in the Harley Quinn animated series (they have similar voices and cadences to my ear), but no, that’s Lake Bell.
You have only one outcome: the USA will move rightward.
To the extent that voting matters in a fundamentally broken electoral system like ours, voting for the democrats is an affirmation of the choices they have made: affirmation of their choice to arm genocide in Gaza, affirmation of their choice to move right on immigration, affirmation of their choice to abandon death penalty abolition from their platform, etc.
Why would they ever change course as a party if they still get the only thing they want from you either way? Lesser evil voting is a race to the bottom, and the longer people wait to correct the democrats’ course, the more painful it will be to endure a republican government in the meantime.
The democrats will never stop this country from its rightward trajectory if they keep moving rightward with it because their base continually validates them.
You’ve got three busses: one takes you half way home
I wish the democrats were even that useful. The analogy is broken immediately.
Democrats really don’t like democracy when they lose elections.